Performing Arts and Production PhD

What is Performing Arts and Production

The School of Arts offers a stimulating and supportive intellectual environment, consisting of a diverse culture of interdisciplinary postgraduate research. You’ll benefit from working with a team of both research-active and industry-connected supervisors.

Dance

We have a well-established research reputation and strong links and partnerships with arts organisations, professional dance companies, dance practitioners and publishing houses in the UK and internationally.

We welcome students interested in:

• dance, somatics and philosophy
• dance, spirituality and religious studies
• dance science
• performance praxis
• community dance and education
• inter-cultural and cross-cultural dance cultures.

Drama

Our growing drama community offers opportunities to engage in a rich programme of talks and workshops from visiting lecturers/companies. You’ll also benefit from our close links with local professional theatres and festivals.

You’ll be supported by staff whose specialisms include:

• devising
• writing for performance
• acting
• classical, immersive and participatory theatre
• theatrical adaptation
• multimedia and site-related performance
• theatre and education and applied theatre.

Performing Arts

Postgraduate study in performing arts covers a wide range of topics, with a focus on interdisciplinary work. Members of the performing arts team have a particular interest in practice as research.

Areas of research interest and experience include:

• musical theatre
• devising
• writing for performance
• live and mediated performance
• theatre and interactivity
• applied theatre
• health, wellbeing and resilience.

PhD: a master’s degree or equivalent in a subject area relevant to the proposed research topic. We actively encourage applications from students from a range of diverse backgrounds who demonstrate appropriate research experience and achievement.