Postgraduate researchers

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Composition, cross-culturalism, musical experience, Javanese gamelan, cultural appropriation,

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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.

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- Accessibility; Disability; Inclusivity; Neurodiversity; ADHD; Autism; Engagement with stories; Storytelling; Fairy tales; Narrative structure

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The interplay of gender, technology, and choral music, focusing on Anglican environments. How historically male-dominated production norms shape musical narratives and affect the experiences of female-identifying musicians. Utilizing frameworks like Female Ear praxis and microaggression theory, her work aims to deconstruct these biases and advocate for more inclusive and equitable practices within choral music production.

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- Composition
- Choral music
- Creative placemaking

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Thesis title in development

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

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How to give students a professional experience during productions while still teaching technique to actors in training? An investigation into discovering strategies that can be used when directing students.

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

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Mediating between game and interactive storytelling experiences, Cristobal is interested in shaping appealing game design properties into purposeful games, leveraging positive psychological digital interventions with accessible play practices to benefit large numbers of people. Cristobal's research focuses on inclusive interactive experiences, aimed at strengthening the links between commercial games and the wellbeing sector.

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Video games, gaming, theatre, performance, acting, autoethnography

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

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

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

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Museum accessibility, queer history, digital heritage

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Music education, instrumental music, instrumental music education, music theory pedagogy

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Augmented reality / primary education / sciences / XR technologies

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English Church Music

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Popular Music; AI in Music Education; Decolonising Music Pedagogy; African Popular Music; Music Technology in the Classrooms, Yorùbá cultural Studies; Sonic identity in African Music; Music Information Retrieval; Ethnomusicology; Yorùbá Talking Drum.

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- Machine learning applied to music, including but not limited to human-centered music generation.
- Discovery of repetitive patterns in music.

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

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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

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Research related to: the relationship between filmmakers and their technology, the development of filmmaking education, and capturing experimental visual aesthetic.

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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.

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Richard Wagner; Western operas in China; Theory

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Music education; cultural policy; music & adolescents; music & wellbeing; music sociology; music psychology; cultural geography; popular music studies; ethnomusicology

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Media and Entertainment Industry, Creative Project Management, Intellectual Property Rights, Project and Contractual Working, Business Management, Management Process Frameworks.

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Magic Circles: Generating collaborative queer utopias via tabletop roleplaying games and the “Fantastic Genres”

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

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Human computer interaction, Inclusive design, Co-design methods, Older Adults, Accessibility, Game Design.

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

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

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The music of ('old') England and New England during the 16th and 17th centuries, musical performance practices during the early modern period, historical linguistics - particularly philology, phonology, and phonetics - and Early Modern English language and literature.

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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

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Story Seeds - Growing Storied Experiences from Outdoor Cultural Heritage Sites through Tangible Interactive Artefacts

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Performance practice, jazz, bass guitar.

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

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Mental Illness and Dramatising Symptoms: A Playwright's Perspective

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

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

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Directing, Alzheimer's disease, workshop theory and practice, biomedical research in the rehearsal room

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From the Underdog to Top Dog – Gender representation and unconscious bias in sports films from the late 1970s to 2020.

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Investigating Emotional Audience Responses to Theatre and Music

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

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Music psychology, music performance, musicians' health and wellbeing, music and emotions, music education

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My research interests incorporate the history of western classical music from the late renaissance to the classical era, opera history, contemporary composition, and jazz music from the 20th-century.

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Javanese Gamelan, Siter, Celempung, Indonesia, ethnomusicology.

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

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Music education;
Music teacher education;
PGCE courses;
and other music degree courses .

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

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Analysis, Performance practice, Indeterminacy, Experimentalism, Percussion repertoire

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Towards a feminist mythography: a practice based enquiry exploring female archetypes in native folklore and how these might play as source material in contemporary film narratives

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

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

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

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Ethnographic documentary; Chinese independent documentary; Socialist realistic documentary

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Music production and disability studies.

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Writing the Immersive Musical

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Thesis title in development

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Richard’s research is at the intersection of media, culture and technology, exploring how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be deployed in the creation of computer-mediated artefacts, examining post-human to non-human modes of production.

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Western opera performance, Reception, empirical research, audience perspectives

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

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Interactive Fiction, Game Books, Video Games, Comics, Film

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

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Embodied cognition; String quartet; Violin performance; Schumann

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Piano performance and education; Instrumental teaching approaches.

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Transmedia, storytelling, mythology, superheroes, film, television, literature.

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

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

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