Research

 We carry out cutting-edge research within an integrated and organic research culture that is highly-regarded in Britain and around the world. The results of RAE (2008) confirm our excellence, with 90% of our work evaluated as of at least international standing, and a significant proportion as world-leading.

 

The three disciplines of film, theatre and television are staffed by specialists in the analysis of their medium. Much of our work is in the established form of published scholarship by individual experts, but our shared vision as a team means that we also work collaboratively with each other and with fellow researchers in the UK and abroad. Some of our academic staff are also practitioners and part of their research takes the form of practice (see Practice as Research).

 

Our new facilities, which will be completed in April 2011 will enable us to develop our practice as research into areas of new media (see New building for Film, Theatre & Television).

We have won seven major externally-funded projects in the last decade, employing post-doctoral researchers and attracting leading scholars, as well as people from the creative industries (actors, directors, producers, writers) to work with us.

Our staff are editors of leading academic journals and book series, and serve on the assessment panels of national research funding councils. Throughout the year, we host conferences, performances and symposia that bring together academics, practitioners from the creative industries and postgraduate students.

 

 

Photograph Credits: Matthew Ager