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Research in Arts

Promoting interdisciplinarity, internationalisation, societal impact.

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

Music
Performance Without Barriers Research Questions

Music 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 music making. 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.

Meet Our Researchers

Richard Schoch
Richard Schoch

Richard Schoch (Professor of Drama): Finalist, George Freedley Memorial Award given by the Theatre Library Association (USA), for his book WRITING THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH STAGE, 1660-1900 (Cambridge, 2016). The Freedley award is given to 'an exemplary book in the field of theatre and performance'

Franziska Schroeder
Franziska Schroeder

Franziska Schroeder (Reader in Sonic Arts):  Awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Innovation Prize 2020 for the work with her “Performance without Barriers” research group.

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Markus Schleich

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Film and Television, his research focuses on Europeanness in Film and Television series on the level of production, distribution, and promotion.

Interdisciplinary Groups and Research Centres
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.

Research Projects, Impact and Partnerships
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s provides an important interdisciplinary focus for Arts and Humanities research across the University.  

Initiatives facilitated by the Institutes include the research groups Art, Performance and Media in (Post-) Conflict Societies, Recomposing the City: Sonic Arts and Urban Architecture, Translating Improvisation, and Belfast Soundwalks – a partnership with Belfast City Council, funded by the AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund.

Queen's growing programme in Arts Management and Cultural Policy has seen the School take a lead role in the establishment of the Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland, an all island research network aimed at growing, connecting, and profiling academic research on the practices and policies relating to cultural policy across the island of Ireland.

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