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Research in Arts

Promoting interdisciplinarity, internationalisation, and societal impact.

The School brings together research expertise and achievements in three related disciplinary fields: Music and Sonic Arts; Drama and Arts Management; Film, Broadcast, and Screen Media.

Music and Sonic Arts

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Music and Sonic Arts research encompasses a diversity of interests and specialisms ranging from major publications in the field of historical musicology to compositions to new instrument designs and creative works that explore innovative forms of musical expression. The internationally renowned Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) hosts a community of interdisciplinary researchers exploring the interactions between science, engineering, and new creative technologies. 

Drama and Arts Management

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Drama and Arts Management research draws on innovative critical and practice-based methods, with specialist interests in theatre history and historiography, practice-as-research, theatre and medical ethics, dance, and modern European and American drama. In addition to developing wider research specialisms in the area of arts management and cultural policy, the Brian Friel Theatre and the Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research hosts many of its research activities and engagement events. 

Film, Broadcast, and Screen Media

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Film, Broadcast, and Screen Media research comprises both published scholarly work and creative research outputs with particular strengths in documentary filmmaking, screen industries and cultures, film and media history, animation, sound and music, and new broadcast media technologies

RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

Our research environment promotes interdisciplinarity, internationalisation, and societal impact, involving scholars and practitioners producing outputs that range from historical and critical studies to creative works, such as musical compositions, theatre productions, screenplays, documentary films, video installations, and experimental work in new reality technologies.
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Sonic Arts Research Centre

A purpose designed building with state-of-the-art facilities was opened by Karlheinz Stockhausen in 2004.  The multidisciplinary work at SARC evolves and expands as collaborations develop and with variations in our research community.

Brian Friel Centre for Theatre Research

Since opening in 2009, the Friel Theatre and Centre for Theatre Research consolidates the reputation of Drama at Queen’s and is active in developing international networks that support and disseminate research in drama.

Prisons Memory Archive

The Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) is a collection of filmed walk-and-talk recordings with those who had a connection with Armagh Gaol and Maze and Long Kesh during the conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland / the North of Ireland.

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