Performing Arts and Music

We welcome proposals for postgraduate research in all of these areas

The Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts

Theatre studies
Dance studies
Musicology
Computational musicology
Theatre and technology
Dance and technology
Performance spaces and environment
Performance and disability
Embodiment and the performing body

Interdisciplinary and cross-artform practices
Gender, sexuality and cultural identities in theatre, performance and music
Sonic art
Music composition
Electronic music
Biomedical applications of audio and music
Artificial intelligence and music
Alternative computing and creativity
Musical applications of quantum computing

Research projects in media and performing arts can lead to either a written thesis or one that combines critical writing with artistic, creative and/or professional practice.

We offer part-time and full-time programmes at both masters and doctoral level.

For more information please contact the Postgraduate Research Coordinator in your field of interest.

Postgraduate research programmes

Although you can do research in any of the areas above, you may wish to look at these programmes:

Our research community

A dynamic and ‘Internationally Excellent’ research environment producing ‘World Leading’ Impact (100% 4&3* REF 2021) and with expertise in computer music and composition, actor and performer training, applied theatre, creative computing and emergent technologies, immersive play and production. We are interested transformative research that redefines fields and changes lives for the better.