As achieved in RAE2008, the School of Media, Music and Performance has a 'world-leading' reputation for its research and innovation activity.

We are now engaging with cross-disciplinary research and developing further our outstanding history of working with the creative and media industries.

Notably diverse, and operating in a spirit of cross-discilinary curiosity, the school's work moves across internal and external research areas and houses three research centres:

The school is active in the research you would associate with the our core disciplines, engaging with television and radio broadcasters, newspapers and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, you will just as easily discover our outputs at festivals, gaming expos, hospitals, tourist attractions, shopping malls, brass band competitions and, of course, aligned to the internet.

Cross-school collaboration

Our dynamic approach generates a broad range of projects from the analysis of media ecologies, music and the anti-psychiatry movement, and notions of identity in performance, through to the practice of programme-making for BBC Radio 4, composition for the likes of Mercury award-winning band Elbow, and digitally-mediated performances around the world.

We actively engage with staff across the university’s four cross-disciplinary themes, and of course play a leading role in the key theme of Media, Creative Economy and Digital Technology. This cross-school, collaborative approach allows us to tackle research problems in conjunction with external partners and move beyond assumed limits, giving rich, rewarding and innovative results.

With well over 50 postgraduate students from the UK, Europe, Ghana, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the United States, our postgraduate researchers are exceptionally diverse and informative, and are integral to the daily life of the school.

If you would like to know more about research in the School of Media, Music and Performance, please get in touch.

  Dr Alan Williams: Associate Head, Research & Innovation