Our research expertise

Research that drives meaningful change in our society and enriches communities
Our research expertise

The School of Society and Culture is home to researchers who demonstrate the crucial role the social sciences, law, humanities and performing arts play in all aspects of our lives and their importance in shaping the future.

Research that crosses disciplines

Research areas

Digital research repository Digital research repository
 Working across a number of disciplines: history, art history, anthropology, English, creative writing, music, computer music, theatre and performance. Some of our researchers share their research interests and current projects.

Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
 Cutting-edge research combining music, science and technology. Our research expertise ranges from musicology and composition, to biomedical applications of music and development of new technologies for musical creativity.

Performance. Experience. Presence (PEP) Performance. Experience. Presence (PEP)
 Focuses on issues of embodiment, representation, culture and identity through the making and analysis of performance in a wide variety of genres – theatre, somatic practice, live art, and popular performance forms across digital and material spaces.

Cornerstone Heritage Cornerstone Heritage
 Our researchers exchange ideas and form new partnerships across the fields of heritage studies, art history, history, architecture, business, tourism, geography, 3D and graphic design, and digital technologies.

Environmental cultures Environmental cultures
 We bring together a critical mass of researchers and practitioners at Plymouth whose work recognises how the arts, culture and the humanities are inextricably bound up with environmental challenges.

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