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
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
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
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.
World-class Researchers
Interdisciplinary Groups and Research Centres
Research Projects, Impact and Partnerships
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.
