The Performance Research Centre has a broad membership drawing on researchers from across the School of Media, Music and Performance and the School of English and Sociology.

The research focus of the group is predominantly driven by interest and activities in contemporary performance practice and some of its members are working with a number of the UK's most progressive companies.

The focus of the Performance Research Centre is driven by its membership whose research interests centre largely on multimedia and new media performance modes.

These include digital performance, site specific, networked performance and dance and screen as well as pedagogic research interests in the teaching of performance practice in the 21st century.

Linked to the Performance Research Centre is the New Performance Paradigms network established in 2007.

This has brought together a world renowned group of international theorists and practitioners from the field of contemporary performance practice with a focus on research and exploration into new modes of performance.

The latest of our popular international symposium’s was held in May 2011 to mark the Perfromance Research Centre’s exciting move to MediaCityUK.

"As Yet Impossible: in human performance" was the first event to mark the opening of MediaCityUK, an extraordinary resource that will house the state of the art Digital Performance Laboratory.