Research in the School of Creative Arts
The School of Creative Arts is home to a wide range of research in art and design, art history and design history, film and media practice and theory and in music.
At the last Research Assessment Exercise, sixty per-cent of its research was rated either as internationally excellent or higher in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
Find out more about the Music research results.
Research Groups
The School has five research groups:
- Research into Practice (R2P)
- Theorising Visual Art and Design (TVAD)
- (MRG) the Media Research Group
- Music Composition and Performance Research Group.
- Music and Entertainment Industries Research Group
Our fine and applied artists and film-makers have work in major national and private collections worldwide.
The School’s art and design historians and media theorists make a sustained contribution to their respective disciplines through the publication of books, journals and contributions to a range of national and international conferences.
Our musicians undertake research in the field of experimental, choral music and performance, and is a centre of excellence for research into music consumption.
Central to the School’s interests is the application of its research and the public benefits of its scholarship and research is carried out with a wide range of public institutions, including hospitals and government organisations, local museums and the creative industries.
We host visiting researchers and professors from Universities in the UK, Europe, the US and Brazil. We also home to a thriving international community of doctoral and masters students forming the next generation of academics and professionals. Multi-disciplinary collaboration is central to our research interests.
Staff and research students are members of the Social Sciences Arts and Humanities Research Institute (SSAHRI) and the University's Heritage Hub. SSAHRI regularly hosts staff and student conferences and forms a vital platform for a dynamic and supportive research culture.
Highlights
- Sixty percent of our research was rated as internationally excellent of higher in the RAE 2008 results.
- Our artists have work in major public collections throughout the world
- Our research into music consumption informs public policy on the digitized consumption of music
- We host a world-leading centre for research into practice
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