
External engagement, partnerships and support
Feature films
- Elevator Gods (2022)
- Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
- Solis (2018)
- Macbeth (2018)
- That Good Night (2017)
- Mad to Be Normal (2017)
- Love of My Life (2017)
- In Extremis (2017)
- Dusty & Me (2016)
- The Comedian’s Guide to Survival (2016)
- Bliss! (2016)
- Sparks and Embers (2015)
- Residue (2015)
- The Knife That Killed Me (2014)
- I Know What I’m Doing (2013)
- Harrigan (2013)
- Dementamania (2013)
- First Night (2013)
- If I Were You (2012)
- Entity (2012)
Broadcast TV programmes
- The Agency (ADR support)
- Gentleman Jack Series 2 (ADR support)
- ESL DOTA (Studio TV Production support)
- Emergency Rescue Down Under (Editing support)
- Location, Location, Location (Offline editing support)
- BBC Question Time Special (Production support)
- Look North Devolution Special (TV production support)
- In The Club (Postproduction support)
- The Syndicate (Postproduction support)
- Slavery: a 21st Century Evil (Postproduction support)
XR Stories provides research and development funding, support and networking to expand the potential of immersive and interactive technologies for digital storytelling.
The Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN) is a unique, business-facing initiative supporting the TV, film and games industries in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Music partnerships
Our partnerships and external engagement are focused in several key areas:
- Concerts: Our public University Concert Series is an important feature of York’s cultural scene. With over 40 performances each year, we are proud to host internationally renowned performers spanning many genres and styles.
- Online outreach: Robert Hollingworth’s ‘Sing the Score' online videos (youtube.com) have reached extensive online communities.

A Chinese ensemble concert performed by our MA and PhD students at the Merchant Taylors Hall in Aldwark, York.
- Practitioners, arts organisations and business: Our artists-in-association include Quatuor Diotima (France), Ensemble intercontemporain (France) and I Fagiolini (UK). We work closely with York’s National Centre for Early Music, the York Early Music Festival, York Late Music and numerous UK and international festivals and organisations. Recent business partners include audio-technology companies such as Bang and Olufsen, RPPtv Intelligent Media and Nugen Audio.
- External research partner: Our long-standing partnership with the Orpheus Institute Research Centre (Belgium) places us at the heart of European developments in practice research.
Internship opportunities
Our ability to forge strong industrial relationships means that our students get hands-on industrial experience with some of the best known creative companies in the world.
These have included:
- Aardman
- Chichester Festival Theatre
- Disney
- 42 Management & Production
- Framestore
- NBC/Universal
- Pinewood Studios
- Sky
- Trafalgar Entertainment Group
- Warp Films
and many more.