Postgraduate researchers
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Historical Buildings in Heritage Cinema and Their Effect on the Visitor Experience
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Jazz pedagogy, jazz improvisation, music education, teaching approaches, teaching strategies.
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Storytelling, Fairytales & ADHD: Adapting Narratives for Neurodivergent Audiences
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Music education, instrumental music, instrumental music education, music theory pedagogy
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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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Music, philosophy, music cognition, virtue ethics, improvisation, embodied music cognition, music education.
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Human computer interaction, Inclusive design, Co-design methods, Older Adults, Accessibility, Game Design.
Thomas Battey
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Thesis title in development
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Historically Musicology / Historically Informed Performance / Renaissance Music / Early Baroque Music / Vocal Pedagogy / Early Modern History / English History / English Language / Phonetics and Phonology / Historical Linguistics / Philology
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No Man’s Rose: Challenging the Expectations of the Neo-Western Woman Through Serial Drama
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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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Plays and Performance in the Country House: The 'Bijou' Theatre at Chatsworth
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Subjective responses to music, music education, music performance, evolution of music and musicality
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Cartographic narratives, communication strategies, storytelling for change, Interactive media, environment, connectedness, data visualisation, design, semiotics.
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Mediating between ludological and diegetic contexts, Cristobal looks at appropriating appealing game design properties into purposeful games, leveraging positive psychological digital interventions for user wellbeing that can benefit large numbers of people.
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Machine learning applied to music, including but not limited to human-centered music generation.
Discovery of repetitive patterns in music.
R Clayton
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How does shifting from a horizontal aspect ratio to a vertical aspect ratio in long-form film production affect the filmmaking process and resulting narratives?
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Grand Theft Artaud - An autoethnographic study of live performance in "real" and "virtual" worlds
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Composition; Algorithmic Composition; Cognitive Science; Analogy; Music & Meaning
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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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gamelan, community music, ethnomusicology, cultural intersections, person-centred practice, collaborative composition
Teodora Fartan
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How can Augmented Reality help bridge the gap between classroom and remote science learning for Primary Schools?
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The Interplay of Place and Nostalgia in Contemporary Migratory European Cinema
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Interactive documentary and non-profit engagement through personal storytelling
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Ethnographic documentary; Chinese independent documentary; Socialist realistic documentary
Alan Heaven
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To what extent is the work of Nathan Field distinctive in its use of instructional content?
Joe Horsey
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The Role of Metaphor in Documentary Film and Television
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Music education;
Music teacher education;
PGCE courses;
and other music degree courses .
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Composition, cross-culturalism, musical experience, Javanese gamelan, cultural appropriation,
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Music education, instrumental and vocal teaching, dialogic teaching, dialogue
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Screen Industry: Theoretical Process Management Frameworks for Film, Television, and Videogames
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Magic Circles: Generating collaborative queer utopias via tabletop roleplaying games and the “Fantastic Genres”
Alexander Kiddier
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Deborah Klika
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The comic nature of character and narrative in related TV and film comedy.
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Juju Music Mediation.
Human-Machine performance interaction.
Juju Music
Yoruba Talking drums
Music Information Retrieval system MIR
African Music Production and Performance
Traditional Music Education.
Yoruba Music
Francesca Lewis
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Searching for counter-diagnostic meaning within borderline experience
David Libeau
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Generating real-time audio description for live streamed gaming
Tala Linjawi
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Functional enhancement: Redefinition of sports commentary in the era of digital media
Daniel Lock
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Music aesthetics, contemporary music, choreomusical relationship, queer theory, embodiment, theatre and performance studies
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Simona Manni
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Responsive media and non-linear participatory narratives of mental health
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Music as an agent: Video game narrative, musical empathy, and the music that flows between
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Story Seeds - Growing Storied Experiences from Outdoor Cultural Heritage Sites through Tangible Interactive Artefacts
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Superheroes, Trauma, and the Internet: Feeling the Relational Self in the Era of Networked Neoliberalism.
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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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Serialising Sports: Crafting Sustainable Sporting Narratives for 'Quality' Drama Television
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ASMR: Sound interventions for mental health and wellbeing in adolescents
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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.
Richard Oakes
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Investigating Emotional Audience Responses to Theatre and Music
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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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Oboe, period instruments, musicology, historically informed performance, music psychology, sociology, thematic analysis, discourse analysis, music education
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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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Working title: Queer encounters with the reproductive imperative — addressing the impact of reproductive futurism on visions of queer futurity in science fiction theatre
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Experiential temporality
Temporality in acousmatic music
Electroacoustic music
Improvised music
Found sound
Tape music
Hadeel Shqair
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Aljazeera Channel's Effect on the Political Consciousness of the Arab Youth since 2000
M.G. Stewart-David
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Writing the Immersive Musical
Ellen Storm
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Audio Describing gestures and facial expressions in Thai serials
Mwewa Sumbwanyambe
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Thesis title in development
Mark Summers
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The player as antagonist. Can the reframing of narrative terms lead to a more immersive and engaging experience in interactive storytelling?
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Staging Conspiracy Theory: exploring staged responses to conspiracy theory in contemporary theatre and performance practice
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Dual Carriageway - Live performance and digital storytelling linking communities along the Great North Road
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Reflections of Sherlock Holmes: A Study of the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, Appropriations and Modern Media Protagonists.
Xiaojie (Cheryl) Xie
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Western opera performance, Reception, empirical research, audience perspectives
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Transmedia, storytelling, mythology, superheroes, film, television, literature.
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Documentary filmmaking, interactive storytelling, immigrant experiences, human rights