Our people
Find contact details and explore who does what in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies.
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Interactive media art, interaction design, theory and aesthetics of digital media; affordance, embodiment, memory; sound art, interactive sonification, sound design, listening practices, sonic memories; design of digital music instruments, live electronics and live coding, acousmatic composition, film music.
Jethro Bagust
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Music Technology; electroacoustic composition; sound recording; electronic instrument design, practice, performance and improvisation.
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British and European art cinema, particularly the films of Terence Davies; intertextuality; literary adaptation; documentary filmmaking
Matt Barnard
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Composition and production with spatial audio, especially with ambisonic and binaural methods
The philosophy and aesthetics of spatial listening
Soundscape and electronic composition
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Political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht, the Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Müller, dialectics on stage, and post-Brechtian performance; Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his work in the theatre; postdramatic theatre; modern German theatre; documentary theatre; theatre documentation.
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Feminism and dramaturgy; twenty-first century new playwriting; the contemporary history play; feminist performance analysis; centenary and anniversary commemoration and performance practices; British theatre institutions and their wider socio-cultural contexts. Theatre practitioner specialising in devising and new writing.
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Enabling the general public to interact with real-world data through the use of novel interactive technology and visualization techniques. Utilizing interactive technology, data visualizations and games for scientific outreach, digital civics and citizen science.
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Communication design for equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); Participatory and co-creative research methods; Design for sport and marginalised communities; Heritage, identity, and cultural storytelling; Visual methodologies and mapping in design
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The main driving force behind my research is the belief that technology, media and music all have an important role to play in society, particularly for improving health, wellbeing and access. I am also extremely fascinated by the power of music to affect how people feel.
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Film and television production teaching for single camera location and multi-camera studio work. Covering production methods, skills, techniques and technologies; specialising in cameras, lighting and grip equipment related to feature film, drama, documentary, music promos/commercials, multi-camera studio production and outside broadcast.
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Skills and Training in Creative Technologies, Inclusive Education, Virtual Acoustics, Music Performance Analysis, Interactive Sonification, Voice Analysis and Synthesis
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Music and Mission; Post/De-Colonialism and Music; Musicology and Archives; British music history outside Britain
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The music of Einojuhani Rautavaara; 20th/21st-century Nordic music; Tonality in the late-20th century; Music theory in education; Music and the natural environment
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Music management theory and practice; audience studies and research; vocal music and other genres that combine music and text; sociology of music and music as a live experience
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Modern British drama, political theatre, documentary and verbatim theatre, acting technique and training, voice and the actor, screen performance.
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Digital Art and Culture (historic and contemporary digital arts practices, sensing, environmental impacts, science and technology studies, media archaeology, gaming cultures); Digital Literature and Interactive Storytelling (digital writing and storytelling practices, virtual environments, gaming and simulation). Digital Creativity and Design (generative algorithms, creative coding, web design, speculative and imaginary media).
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Enabling professional practice through the use of reflective practice, self and peer assessment, the creation of professional identity, experiential learning, research supervision and portfolio based learning.
Dr Jennifer Cohen
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Music education, Baroque music, performance practice, timing in performance, embodied music cognition, musicology.
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Composition, ancient music, medieval music.
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English drama 1580-1737, theatre, film and television comedy, and the development of the theatre in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century until today.
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- Music Education
- Musicians’ health and wellbeing
- Music performance
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Cultural-historical musicology; opera studies; British music, internationalism and empire; performance histories; music, gender and sexuality; archival research and digital musicologies
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Music Education, Contemporary Popular Musics, DJ Education, Punk and Indie Musics, Music Technology
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Professional digital cinematography technologies and industry standards of practice in Film and Television. Film and digital camera production and lighting design. Production workflows for the Cinematographer.
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Musicology, Composition: Jazz; improvisation; South African popular music.
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Human-computer interaction and interaction design; educational technology and computer-supported collaborative learning; human-centred machine learning; design research.
David Featherstone
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Embedded Systems & Electronics
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Co-design for global equity and digital futures; Community-led design and governance; Creative engagement and participatory practices.
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Commissioning practices in new writing for theatre; directive commissioning; playwriting processes; the craft of playwriting; community & applied theatre; play analysis.
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Film direction, observational documentary, slow cinema, film-diary; sound-image relationship, ‘cinematic silence’, aesthetics of film sound; Chantal Akerman, Michael Haneke, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda and Sergei Parajanov; practice-based research, film authorship.
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Scenography; lighting design, in particular the agency of light in performance; phenomenology; aesthetics; contemporary performance practices; dramaturgy; object oriented ontology and applications to performance; forms of storytelling across theatre and performance.
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Material appearance; virtual reality; human perception of colour and material; modelling and rendering of facial appearance; appearance transfer methods.
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The determining factors of cultural consumption, how consumers apprehend the cultural abundance, and the accessibility of cultural goods, with a focus on classical music concerts.
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Music Education: teaching; learning; performance.
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Film and Television Production; producing, physical production and post-production. Screenwriting; story and script development. Film and Television distribution; international sales & acquisitions. Film and Television Finance. Art House cinema, French Cinema, and Studio Driven High Concept movies and Family Animation. Interdisciplinary fine art and media works that cross boundaries and create unique audience experiences.
Liam Hardy
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Anglo-American television; representations of gender, race, and nation on TV and film; streaming cultures; Hungarian TV and film; transnational/transcultural media flows, particularly those between Eastern European and Anglo-American media cultures.
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Nonprofit management and fundraising; interactive media and AI; art market studies; history of fundraising in London's art market (mid 19th c. /early 20th c.)
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British cinema history, especially the silent period, and the 1990s/2000s; Film Europe in the 1920s; cinema and the past; national/transnational cinema; Anglia Television and the history of ITV.
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- film sound
- animal rights
- creative writing
- therapy with biofeedback art
- meditation an altered states of consciousness
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Performance: Renaissance and Baroque music; vocal ensembles.
Emily Holmes
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Film and television production, music technology, live sound production and broadcast audio.
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Musicology, Performance: contemporary musical aesthetics and analysis; music and literature; piano accompaniment.
Dr Bethan Jones
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Digital media; action cinema; 3D; the representation of space and architecture on film; media archaeology.
Member of the Digital Cultures cluster.
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Medieval and early modern British drama, in particular the repertory of and performance by Elizabethan companies on tour; original practices and performance-as-research; the archaeology of medieval and post-medieval buildings; early theatre architectures.
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Expanded filmmaking, media arts, multi-sensory environments, psychology of embodied experience, transmedia
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Sound performance and sonic interactivity; sonic experience; phenomenology; sound design and storytelling; prototyping and remaking as design methods; history and philosophy of technology; noisemakers and sound effects
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Interaction design for games and playful experiences; critical and speculative design; mobile and social play; animal-computer interaction.
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Musicology, Performance: contemporary music and experimental music practices; music and embodiment/subjectivity/identity; music and language; Samuel Beckett.
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Film and television directing; story-telling; the magic of film; showbiz; creating worlds in the viewer's mind.
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Theatre and the posthuman; performing robots; twenty-first century drama; dramatic character; science-fiction theatre; technologies and film in theatre.
Daniel Lock
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Extended Reality, Immersive Technology, VR Theatre, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
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Sound Design for Theatre, Film and TV; Accessibility in audio-visual arts; Virtual Acoustics; York Mystery Plays; Digital Heritage.
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Contemporary British theatre and performance; the relationship between text and performance; playwriting; adaptation for the stage; ecodramaturgy.
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Contemporary British theatre and performance, devised and physical theatre, large-scale community productions, performance and social media.
Cathy Lowe
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Sound recording, electronic dance music history, listening studies, music sociology, Dance Music Cultures.
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- Musical Analysis of 20th Century and Contemporary Music
- Louis Andriessen, György Ligeti
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Film and TV production and postproduction; business of film and television; story and script development; single camera directing; cinematic virtual reality; advanced production and post-production technologies.
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Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement.
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- Sound studies
- Dance Music Cultures
- Electronic dance music production and performance
- Electroacoustic composition
- Visual and participatory arts
- Creative collaboration in music education
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Interdisciplinary cultural production; the relationship between art, film and place; design and media histories; film exhibition and audiences; cultural policy; festivals and biennials; creative practice research; intercultural relations; curating and programming
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Music Education: teaching; learning; musicians' health and wellbeing; music psychology.
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Music psychology; music and emotion; music science; empathy; quantitative research methods and analysis.
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Music Education; Music-theatre; Opera; Composition
Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat
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Applied Machine Learning, Data-driven storytelling, AI in end-to-end solutions, UX, Esports, Data visualisation, AI in and for games, Games development
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- Musicians' Health and Wellbeing
- Music Education
- Music Performance
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Theatrical performance in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Terezín/Theresienstadt, modern Czech theatre, theories of affect, identity and subjectivity, playwriting, translation and adaptation for the stage.
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British, Scottish and New Zealand cinema and culture, with specific interests in the film-making process, the industrial structures and functioning of national cinemas, the art and craft of cinematography and the relationship between cultural expression and the question of the national.
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Musicology, Music Education: teaching; learning; analysis; music and temporality.
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Critical approaches to staging and unstageability; contemporary performance practice in the UK and Ireland; voice and music in contemporary theatre; autoethnographic approaches to writing about performance; pedagogies of theatre and performance in higher education.
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Composition; Live electronics; Improvisation; Sound Art; Music Computing and Interactivity; Music and Artificial Intelligence (AI); Live Coding; Cross-arts Collaboration; Contemporary Music Studies; and Critical/contextual Studies of Digital and Sound Culture.
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- Classroom and peripatetic teacher collaborations
- Musicology in the secondary music classroom
- Intergenerational music education
- English Church Music
- Editing
Will Rowan
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Computer vision and machine learning applied to virtual production; 3D representations of the human face and body; multi-modal analysis and generation of real and virtual worlds. My work aims to enhance creative expression and innovation in film and television, enabling new possibilities in storytelling, special effects, and immersive experiences.
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Workflows and techniques for production and post production. Multi-camera studio techniques and processes. Editing and post production finishing in the storytelling process. Visual effects in theatre and interactive media.
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Human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user-centred design and evaluation methods. Quantitative and qualitative research methods. Acceptance and use of technology by older people. Accessibility, including AI and robotics to help age at home. Universal Design for (e)learning.
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4E music cognition (Embodied, Embedded, Extended, Enactive); Psychology of musical creativity; Interdisciplinary musicology; Music performance and education.
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Musicology: contemporary and 20th-century opera production; Wagner; critical musicology.
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Composition: European modernism; contemporary music; the string quartet.
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Composition, Performance: contemporary performance practice; conducting.
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Composition, Performance: spectral and microtonal music; live electronics; orchestration.
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Digital Disruption; Popular Music; Music Streaming; Valuation Studies; Copyright
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Economic geography, specifically geographies of the creative industries; immersive technology and media; critical heritage studies; visual methodologies; post-representational cartography.
Lindsey To
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User Experience (UX) Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), ethical and transparent data systems, digital wellbeing, and the use of gamification to encourage meaningful user engagement. I am particularly interested in user-centred design approaches and how digital interfaces can be shaped to promote responsible behaviours and positive experiences in online environments.
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Film industry scholarship, particularly the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood, national and transnational cinemas and the political economy of film and television institutions.
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Sociology of film; cinema history; popular film genres (especially the horror movie); football on television; cultural studies.
Dr Cobi van Tonder
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Heritage Acoustics, Immersive Audio, 3D audio, Composition, Sound art and Sound Design.
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Screenwriting; story and script development.
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Music education, empathy, performance psychology.
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16th- and 17th-century English and Italian music; Editing; Performance practice; English Church Music
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Single and multi-camera production techniques; writing for film and television; content creation; children's media production, regulation and financing.
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Georgina Wells
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- Semiotics and Music’s Meanings
- Popular Music and Religion
- Topic theory
- African diasporic music studies
- Theology and Musical Borrowing
- Secularisation
- Intertextuality
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The practice and culture of performance in Western Classical Music 1750-1950; Historically Informed Performance in repertoire 1750-1950; Wind music performance and repertoire; History of sound recording and broadcasting
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Design for behaviour change;
Participatory design;
Gender-sensitive design in human computer interaction.
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Vocal performance, including art song, opera, contemporary music and musical theatre, vocal health and pedagogy.
Dr Monika Zabrocka
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