Research in Arts
The School brings together research expertise and achievements in three related disciplinary fields: Music; Drama and Arts Management; Film, Broadcast, and Screen Media.
Research in Drama draws on innovative critical and practice-based methods with research, broadly, in the areas of theatre history and historiography, practice as research, dance studies, theatre and medical ethics, and modern European and American drama. Specialist research interests include: post-conflict theatre in the north of Ireland, gendered theatre histories, Irish theatre, and Modernist and avant-garde drama. With robust links to the theatre and arts industry and interdisciplinary collaborations across the school, university and beyond, the department hosts its many research and engagement activities, including performances, research seminars, and artist visits, at the Brian Friel Theatre.
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
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.
RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
Meet Our 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.
