Our research

Cutting-edge scholarship, creative practice, digital innovations and industry engagement.

The Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media (TFTI) generates innovative ideas and practices that benefit culture, society and the economy. We foster connections between our areas of expertise to produce world-leading research.

Our research embraces disciplinary approaches from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and engineering.

Over 2400% increase in research grant income

Since the 2014 Research Excellence Framework

Research strengths

Our research culture builds on our strengths in studying and making theatre, film, television and interactive media, and the ways in which those practices interact.

We use interdisciplinary approaches to explore the ways in which technology meets creativity, theory meets practice, humans meet computers, history meets the contemporary, live performance meets screen content.

Such innovation has led to several multi-million pound, industry-facing projects with digital creativity at their heart.

Cultural Histories and Legacies

Immersive and Interactive Storytelling

Health, Wellbeing and Accessibility

Digital Cultures

Performance and Production Practices and Content

Facilities

Our professional facilities allow practice-as-research to flourish, with staff and research students exploiting excellent theatre facilities, TV studios and mobile recording rigs, and post-production suites.

Our first-class facilities and our diverse staff specialisms place us at the forefront of efforts to support the development of interdisciplinary research across the University.