Student work
Student work
See how our students put what they learn into practice.
Explore some of the projects our students work on during their degrees, such as performances, dissertations, practice-led research and more.
Performance projects
Discover the wide-ranging projects our Masters students have produced.
Using space, light and objects, students on the MA Performance Design worked collaboratively to create design-led performances, evocative environments, visual and multisensory performance.
Photograph by Rochyne Delaney McNulty (MA Performance Design student)
Using space, light and objects, students on the MA Performance Design worked collaboratively to create design-led performances, evocative environments, visual and multisensory performance.
Photograph by Rochyne Delaney McNulty (MA Performance Design student)
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Using space, light and objects, students on the MA Performance Design worked collaboratively to create design-led performances, evocative environments, visual and multisensory performance.
Photograph by Xiao Xiao (MA Performance Design student)
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Using space, light and objects, students on the MA Performance Design worked collaboratively to create design-led performances, evocative environments, visual and multisensory performance.
Photograph by Xiao Xiao (MA Performance Design student)
Gauze
Using space, light and objects, students on the MA Performance Design worked collaboratively to create design-led performances, evocative environments, visual and multisensory performance.
Photograph by Xiao Xiao (MA Performance Design student)
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Using space, light and objects, students on the MA Performance Design worked collaboratively to create design-led performances, evocative environments, visual and multisensory performance.
Photograph by Xiao Xiao (MA Performance Design student)
MA Performance Design students experiment with live and projected performance in a workshop run by Imitating the Dog www.imitatingthedog.co.uk
An immersive performance exploring trauma. This project was devised and designed by a student on the MA Performance Design who staged one-to-one performances using objects as ways in to conversations on the theme of trauma.
Photograph by Karen Stansfield (MA Performance Design student)
As part of their individual project an MA Performance Design student worked with on an undergraduate project as Scenographer, designing the set and costume, for a public performance at Temple Newsam museum, Leeds.
Photography credit - Eleanor Maxwell-Wood, a student on the project.
As part of their individual project an MA Performance Design student worked on an undergraduate project as Scenographer, designing the set and costume, for a public performance at Temple Newsam museum, Leeds.
Photography credit - Eleanor Maxwell-Wood, a student on the project.
As part of their individual project an MA Performance Design student worked on an undergraduate project as Scenographer, designing the set and costume, for a public performance at Temple Newsam museum, Leeds.
Photography credit - Eleanor Maxwell-Wood, a student on the project.
Research projects
Below is a selection of research project titles (dissertations) by students on our Masters courses:
MA Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneuship
Engaging millenial audiences in theatre through social media.
City branding strategies in Chinese mega-cities: the use of iconic buildings in the branding of Beijing.
How do recent Disney animated films express diversity in multimodality: a semiotics-based textual analysis of Zootopia (2016)?
MA Applied Theatre and Intervention
The possibilities and challenges of Theatre in Education projects in schools settings: the perspective of participant observation.
Who cares for the carers? A critical approach to the participatory arts in dementia care.
MA Performance Design
How can design interventions enhance the affective, empathetic and cathartic potential of environments in site-specific performance?
Drawing as a making-thinking process and the impact on performance design.
MA Writing for Performance and Digital Media
Observable Behaviour: a studio musical in two acts
When Olive Trees Died