Our three Research Groups encapsulate our excitement, passions, and collective mission for research and learning. The fundamental interrelationship of these Groups is a key feature of our distinctive identity. The research ethos of the School is based on the development of specialisms within each Group, combined with the active pursuit of collaborations across them and with other researchers in the Faculty and University. All three Groups are engaged in research partnerships with external organisations - academic, industrial, and public sector.

There are three Research Groupings in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries:

                    » Practitioner Processes

                    » Cultural Industries and Performance Contexts

                    » Performance Technologies

 

 
The areas of focus and energy for each are

 

Practitioner Processes - Led by Professor Jonathan Pitches

» Processes of contemporary performance

» Performance documentation

» Dramaturgy and performance

» Theatre, performance and spectatorship

» Performance and translation

» Compositional processes in performance

 

 

Cultural Industries and Performance Contexts - Led by Professor Calvin Taylor

» Cultural and creative industries theory, policy, management and strategy

» Interventionist performance, efficacy, and social and cultural contexts

» Cultural policy, historiography, analysis and evaluation

» Performance histories and cultural practices

» Entrepreneurship and enterprise in the cultural and creative industries

 

 

Performance Technologies - Led by Dr Sita Popat

 

» Languages of technologies in performance

» Spectatorship and performance technologies

» Scenographic performance

» Relationships between performers, operators, and technologies

» Performance and technology collaborative processes

» Performance knowledge in the development of technologies