Research and innovation
Research groups
Research in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries is represented by six research groups.
Audience, Experience and Engagement
The Audience, Experience and Engagement research group investigates how audiences engage with and are engaged by a range of theatre forms, performance and the arts.
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Bodies and Performance
The Bodies and Performance research group explores the way bodies are performed in their cultural, biological, philosophical, aesthetic and mediated contexts and manifestations.
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Participation
The Participation research group examines the nature of participation as both a process and a goal, in all its forms, from participatory practice, research and governance.
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Place and Performance
This research group examines how place functions beyond the theatre building, focusing on the reciprocal relationship between people and place in both built and natural environments.
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Performance Training, Preparation and Pedagogy
Positioning training within a larger context of performance practice this research group explores the processes of preparation in dramaturgy, composition, theatre directing and devising.
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Centre for Cultural Policy
The Centre for Cultural Policy is dedicated to exploring and expanding the breadth of research in the field of cultural policy, regionally, nationally and internationally.
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Centre for Cultural Value
The Centre for Cultural Value is dedicated to exploring the impacts that the arts and culture have on people, and more broadly on society. It aims to promote an evidence-based approach to cultural policy and planning, and to impact evaluation.
Stanislavsky Research Centre
The Stanislavsky Research Centre is a unique international initiative created to provide a home for both academic and practice/performance-based research based upon the work and legacy of Konstantin Stanislavsky.
Research Seminar Series
Our regular seminars are an opportunity to hear about and discuss new research in performance and the cultural industries from invited guest speakers, academic researchers and postgraduate research students.
Centre for Practice-led Research in the Arts
The Centre for Practice Research in the Arts (CePRA) brings together scholars from across the arts disciplines whose research employs practice research methodologies.
Research projects
Our research projects explore a wide range of contemporary issues within the performance and cultural industries, working with partners on a global scale.
Visiting scholars
If you are a professional or an academic, and you have a scheme of academic research that you can appropriately conduct at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, then our visiting scholar programme may be a perfect opportunity for you.