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Postgraduate researchers

Research interests:

Prompt engineering in generative AI filmmaking; semiotics and the language of cinema; visual sense-making in AI-generated outputs; authorship, authenticity, and originality in AI filmmaking; audience engagement with AI-generated films.

Research interests:

Lighting design for performance, dramaturgy, theatre, scenography.

William Barnardo

Disciplines: Music

Ade Barwick

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Spatial Audio, Immersion, Binaural.

Charlotte Baskerville

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

- Composition
- Choral music
- Creative placemaking

Research interests:

Cartographic narratives, communication strategies, storytelling for change, Interactive media, environment, connectedness, data visualisation, design, semiotics.

Alexis Cairns

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Jazz pedagogy, jazz improvisation, music education, teaching approaches, teaching strategies.

Shiran Chen

Disciplines: Music

Oliver Clark

Disciplines: Music

Rafe Clayton

Emily Crossland

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Gamelan, community music, ethnomusicology, cultural intersections, person-centred practice, collaborative composition

Research interests:

Screenwriting; Creative writing; Sociolinguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Multilingualism; Postcolonial studies; Decolonisation; Migration and diaspora; Minoritised identities; Intersectionality; Language and power; Pedagogic language; Cultural narratives; Streaming media and international content

Research interests:

Modern and Contemporary Indian Theatre, Postdramatic Theatre, Scenography

Yalan Deng

Research interests:

Sound landscape, localization of game sound, sound design, game culture

Jared Destro

Disciplines: Music

Arthur Dickinson

Disciplines: Music

Manlu Du

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Music aesthetics, contemporary music, choreomusical relationship, queer theory, embodiment, theatre and performance studies
I am interested in the area above and open to collaboration.

Research interests:

Museum accessibility, queer history, digital heritage

Jordan Gammon

Disciplines: Music

Kolawole Ganikale

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Jùjú music; Yorùbá music; Talking drum semiotics; Culturally responsive music technology; Digital mediation; Decolonial musicology; African music pedagogy; Practice-based research; AI in music performance; Indigenous knowledge systems; Music technology education; Africanising the DAW; Archiving drum cultures.

Oliver Clark Godber

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Musicology, Sociology, Semiotics, Phenomenology.

Research interests:

Cinema, British Film and Television, Post-colonialism, Media Industry, Propaganda, British Empire, Colonialism.

Daniel Grimwood

Disciplines: Music

Benjamin Grundy

Research interests:

Documentary filmmaking, interactive documentary (i-doc), non-linear storytelling, migrant women's experiences, integration, human rights, research by creative practice, visual ethnography, inter-disciplinary research

Claire Holden

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Live, co-present modes of interaction, immersion, and participation. Roleplay. Games and play. Directing as research. Dramaturgy. Relational theatre. Analytical and practical frameworks for performance. Adaptation. Poetry in theatre. Live art. Installation.

Eden Hutton

Vivien Keiles

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Community music; arts and health research; broadside ballads; medieval music; collaborative songwriting; embodied practice; ballad walks

Research interests:

Easy Read Translator - 2025 Indicator Report, York Human Rights City Network, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York

Chian Lim

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Musicians' Heath and Wellbeing, Focal Dystonia, Salutogenesis, Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy, Work Environment

Tao Albert Lim

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Music, geo-blocking, globalism, United Kingdom, accessibility, audience engagement, nett worth.

Johan Lofving

Disciplines: Music

Rosemary Lynch

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Oboe, period instruments, oboe pedagogy, musicology, historical performance practice, music psychology, sociology, music education, EDI, Musicians Health and Wellbeing, thematic analysis

Xiaolin Ma

Alex Mackay

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Musical empathy, musical cohesion in video games, equality diversity & inclusion, ludology and narratology, ethics, music storytelling in interactive media, death studies (thanatology), queer methodology, authentic representations of cultural music in media, audio-visual pairings and musical incongruency, embodied affective response to music, music cognition, music psychology, Latin American ethnomusicology (particularly Peruvian music studies), video game immersion

Ruth Mazur

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Music Education, Music Psychology, Contemporary Rap Music, Music and Wellbeing, Musical Improvisation in education, Music education and museums.

Grace Moore

Research interests:

Experimentation of a new grammar for telling narratives in Cinematic Virtual Reality

Research interests:

Screenwriting, film, TV, narrative, story, script, character, series, plot, structure, act, dénoûment

Caroline Owen

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Subjective responses to music, music education, music performance, evolution of music and musicality

Wenli Pan

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Mozart and Eighteenth-Century Music, Opera and Performance Studies, Staging and Dramaturgy, Gender and Music, Music Education, Mixed Methods Methodology.

Naomi Perera

Disciplines: Music

Beanie Pollard

Harry Pollard

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Javanese Gamelan, Siter, Celempung, Indonesia, ethnomusicology.

James Poole

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Music education, instrumental and vocal teaching, dialogic teaching, dialogue

Huilin Qi

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Music education; musical creativity; musical aesthetic.

Research interests:

Experimental Playwriting; Contemporary British Theatre & Performance; Dramaturgy; Feminisms & Feminist Critical Theory; Patriarchy & Capitalism; Power & Ideology

John Rousseau

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Analysis, Performance practice, Indeterminacy, Experimentalism, Percussion repertoire

Monica Ryan

Disciplines: Music

Daniel Saleeb

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Composition; Algorithmic Composition; Cognitive Science; Analogy; Music & Meaning

Research interests:

Spatial Audio, Augmented Reality, Accessibility, Heritage, Immersive Storytelling

Research interests:

Playwrighting; queer theatre; feminist theatre; science fiction theatre; queer theory; queer history

Research interests:

Ethnographic documentary; Chinese independent documentary; Socialist realistic documentary

Chen Shiran

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

  • Decolonising music education
  • Gongche notation
  • Guzheng pedagogy
  • Indigenous and non-Western notation systems
  • Epistemic justice in music education
  • Curriculum decolonisation
  • Intangible cultural heritage
  • Intercultural music education
  • Practice-based research
  • Chinese traditional music pedagogy

Yeda Shum

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Music Education, Piano Pedagogy, Mental Practice 

Matt Shuttleworth

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Music production and disability studies.

Tom Sissons

Disciplines: Music

Mark Skinner

Joseph Thornber

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Musical embodiment, music education, children and musical development, organ research, piano research, keyboard instrument rebuilding.

Roy Watkins

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Installation art, culture elanoration, sensory engagement, multisensory museum.

Ruike Xu

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Cross-cultural interaction, audience participation, aesthetics, immersive performance

Tiannan Ye

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Embodied cognition; String quartet; Violin performance; Schumann

Shiqi Yin

Disciplines: Music

Miaozi Yu

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Piano performance and education; Instrumental teaching approaches.

Research interests:

Film sound design, emotional impact on audiences, positive emotions in cinema, art therapy

Research interests:

Generative AI, Community Empowerment, Interactive Storytelling, Design-led Innovation

Yaxin Zhang

Disciplines: Music

Research interests:

Musicians' Health and Well-being, Music Education, Music Psychology

Chen Zhu

Matt Zullo

Research interests:

Reflections of Sherlock Holmes: A Study of the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, Appropriations and Modern Media Protagonists.