Research courses
We are a respected authority on sound technology, musicology, composition and media, supported by strong partnerships with industry leaders in entertainment, audio technology and recording.
What we are researching
Digital media arts
- Emerging media
- Practice research
- Creative production
- Art, science and technology interactions
- Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality
- New immersive experiences
- Visualisation and serious games
- Interactive storytelling
- Virtual cinematography
- Spectatorship, participation and play
- Interactive cinema
- Digital poetry
- Narrative and character portrayal in video games and interactive media
- Acting and performance for animation, games and film
- Embodied media
- Digital aesthetics
- Post-narrative theory
- Media psychology
- Generativity
Music
- Analysis
- 20th-century concert music, including Bartok, Stravinsky, Mahler, Elgar and Britten
- Popular musics, particularly rock, jazz, electronic dance music
- Aesthetics of sound and music
- Contemporary music and its composition and performance
- Critical musicology
- Music for screen
- Folk music studies
- Composition
- Psychoacoustic engineering
- Acoustic-perception modelling
- Performance studies and techniques
- Improvisation
- Acoustics
- Digital signal processing
- Psychoacoustics (theoretical and experimental)
- Statistical analysis and user-interface design
- Spatial audio: perception and reproduction
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Expert support
Our Doctoral College supports the academic and professional development of postgraduate researchers to ensure our world-leading research continues to grow. There is also an extensive Researcher Development Programme run at university level.
What our students say
Read our student profiles to discover first-hand what it's like to study with us.
The outcomes of my research have already been implemented into recording and live performance practice by a number of professional colleagues.James Edward Armstrong, PhD Music
Facilities and equipment
We have world-class facilities and equipment including three studios, edit rooms, practice rooms and a TV studio.
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