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Find contact details and explore who does what in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies.

Meet our leadership team

Amanda Addison

Student Services Administrator (Postgraduate)

Rachel Adie-Rhodes.

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Chaimae Alouan

Project Officer: Enhancing Audio Description II

Dr Alessandro Altavilla

Lecturer in Digital Creativity

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interactive media art, interaction design, theory and aesthetics of digital media; affordance, embodiment, memory; sound art, interactive sonification, sound design, listening practices, sonic memories; design of digital music instruments, live electronics and live coding, acousmatic composition, film music.

Alexander Ashworth

Freelance teaching staff: Voice

Discipline: Music

Dr Roisin Astell

Digital Resource & Researcher Developer - RSVP

Jethro Bagust

Audio Technician

Research interests:

Music Technology; electroacoustic composition; sound recording; electronic instrument design, practice, performance and improvisation.

Paul Baily

Visiting Lecturer in Music and Sound Recording

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Technology, Music Production.

Dame Janet Baker

Honorary Professor

Discipline: Music

Dr James Ballands

Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

British and European art cinema, particularly the films of Terence Davies; intertextuality; literary adaptation; documentary filmmaking 

Tim Barber

Freelance teaching staff: Trumpet

Discipline: Music

Matt Barnard

Lecturer in Sound Recording and Music Production

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition and production with spatial audio, especially with ambisonic and binaural methods

The philosophy and aesthetics of spatial listening

Soundscape and electronic composition

Professor David Barnett

Professor of Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht, the Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Müller, dialectics on stage, and post-Brechtian performance; Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his work in the theatre; postdramatic theatre; modern German theatre; documentary theatre; theatre documentation.

Pablo Bellinghausen Riess

Technical Officer

Dr Rebecca Benzie

Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Feminism and dramaturgy; twenty-first century new playwriting; the contemporary history play; feminist performance analysis; centenary and anniversary commemoration and performance practices; British theatre institutions and their wider socio-cultural contexts. Theatre practitioner specialising in devising and new writing.

Gaia Blandina

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Professor Florian Block

Professor in Interactive Media and Digital Creativity

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Enabling the general public to interact with real-world data through the use of novel interactive technology and visualization techniques. Utilizing interactive technology, data visualizations and games for scientific outreach, digital civics and citizen science.

Emma Boneham

Events & External Relations Coordinator

Roxanne Bottomley

Research Associate - Co-Producing EDI Interventions for Virtual Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Communication design for equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); Participatory and co-creative research methods; Design for sport and marginalised communities; Heritage, identity, and cultural storytelling; Visual methodologies and mapping in design

Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks

Subject Head of Creative Technologies

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

The main driving force behind my research is the belief that technology, media and music all have an important role to play in society, particularly for improving health, wellbeing and access. I am also extremely fascinated by the power of music to affect how people feel.

Matt Brannan

Subject Head of Film & Television

Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Production (Cinematography)

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and television production teaching for single camera location and multi-camera studio work. Covering production methods, skills, techniques and technologies; specialising in cameras, lighting and grip equipment related to feature film, drama, documentary, music promos/commercials, multi-camera studio production and outside broadcast.

Professor Jude Brereton

Professor in Audio and Music Technologies

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Skills and Training in Creative Technologies, Inclusive Education, Virtual Acoustics, Music Performance Analysis, Interactive Sonification, Voice Analysis and Synthesis

A list of Jude's Publications and Biography

Sean Brown

Lecturer in Editing for Film and TV

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Philip Burnett

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music and Mission; Post/De-Colonialism and Music; Musicology and Archives; British music history outside Britain

Dr Owen Burton

Associate Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

The music of Einojuhani Rautavaara; 20th/21st-century Nordic music; Tonality in the late-20th century; Music theory in education; Music and the natural environment

Dr Stewart Campbell

Lecturer in Music Management

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music management theory and practice; audience studies and research; vocal music and other genres that combine music and text; sociology of music and music as a live experience

Professor Tom Cantrell

Head of School

Professor in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Modern British drama, political theatre, documentary and verbatim theatre, acting technique and training, voice and the actor, screen performance.

Dr Richard Carter

Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital Art and Culture (historic and contemporary digital arts practices, sensing, environmental impacts, science and technology studies, media archaeology, gaming cultures); Digital Literature and Interactive Storytelling (digital writing and storytelling practices, virtual environments, gaming and simulation). Digital Creativity and Design (generative algorithms, creative coding, web design, speculative and imaginary media).

Ángel Cataño Flores

Music Technician

Gamelan Director

Dr Karen Clegg

Reader in Doctoral Education & Practice

Discipline: Interdisciplinary professional practice

Research interests:

Enabling professional practice through the use of reflective practice, self and peer assessment, the creation of professional identity, experiential learning, research supervision and portfolio based learning.

Dr Jennifer Cohen

Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music education, Baroque music, performance practice, timing in performance, embodied music cognition, musicology.

Dr Stef Conner

Lecturer (from January 2020)

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition, ancient music, medieval music.

Professor Michael Cordner

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

English drama 1580-1737, theatre, film and television comedy, and the development of the theatre in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century until today.

Marianna Cortesi

Associate Lecturer in Music Education

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

  • Music Education
  • Musicians’ health and wellbeing
  • Music performance

Professor Rachel Cowgill

Professor

University Research Theme Champion for Creativity

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Cultural-historical musicology; opera studies; British music, internationalism and empire; performance histories; music, gender and sexuality; archival research and digital musicologies

Imogen Creedy

Student Services Administrator (performance)

Dr Pete Dale

Lecturer

Co-Chair of EDI & Staff Development

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Education, Contemporary Popular Musics, DJ Education, Punk and Indie Musics, Music Technology

Tania Dales

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Roberto del Pino

Theatre Production Officer

Niamh Dell

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Ms Anne Dodsworth

Lecturer in Cinematography for Film & TV

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Professional digital cinematography technologies and industry standards of practice in Film and Television. Film and digital camera production and lighting design. Production workflows for the Cinematographer.

Dr Jonathan Eato

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology, Composition: Jazz; improvisation; South African popular music.

Paul Edis

Freelance teaching staff: Jazz piano

Discipline: Music

Mary Emmett

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Dr Abigail Evans

Lecturer in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human-computer interaction and interaction design; educational technology and computer-supported collaborative learning; human-centred machine learning; design research.

David Featherstone

Associate Lecturer in Music Technology

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Technology
Audio DSP Programming
Embedded Systems & Electronics

Dr Rosendy Fernandez Galabo

Research Associate (Co-Design for Smart Data Donation Services)

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Co-design for global equity and digital futures; Community-led design and governance; Creative engagement and participatory practices.

Sophie Ferris

Student Services Administrator (undergraduate)

Dr Bridget Foreman

Senior Lecturer in Playwriting

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Commissioning practices in new writing for theatre; directive commissioning; playwriting processes; the craft of playwriting; community & applied theatre; play analysis.

Steve Foster

Production and Post-production Officer

Professor Christopher Fox

Honorary Professor

Discipline: Music

Andy Fravigar

Theatre Production Officer

Janet Fulton

Freelance teaching staff: Percussion

Discipline: Music

Bex Garlick

Student Services Administrator (Undergraduate)

Dr Hasmik Gasparyan

Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film direction, observational documentary, slow cinema, film-diary; sound-image relationship, ‘cinematic silence’, aesthetics of film sound; Chantal Akerman, Michael Haneke, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda and Sergei Parajanov; practice-based research, film authorship.

Stefano Gioffre

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

David Gochfeld

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr Katherine Graham

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Scenography; lighting design, in particular the agency of light in performance; phenomenology; aesthetics; contemporary performance practices; dramaturgy; object oriented ontology and applications to performance; forms of storytelling across theatre and performance.

Catherine Graves

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Rachel Gray

Freelance teaching staff: Baroque cello

Visiting Performance Coach

Discipline: Music

Daniel Grimwood

Freelance teaching staff: Piano

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Nineteenth century piano performance

Dr Dar'ya Guarnera

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Material appearance; virtual reality; human perception of colour and material; modelling and rendering of facial appearance; appearance transfer methods.

Dr Samuel Haddad-Bacry

Lecturer in Management & the Creative Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

The determining factors of cultural consumption, how consumers apprehend the cultural abundance, and the accessibility of cultural goods, with a focus on classical music concerts.

Dr Elizabeth Haddon

Reader

Co-Chair of EDI & Staff Development

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Education: teaching; learning; performance.

Emma Hague

Finance Business Partner

Robin Haigh

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Miss Lorianne Hall

Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and Television Production; producing, physical production and post-production. Screenwriting; story and script development. Film and Television distribution; international sales & acquisitions. Film and Television Finance. Art House cinema, French Cinema, and Studio Driven High Concept movies and Family Animation. Interdisciplinary fine art and media works that cross boundaries and create unique audience experiences.

Mark Hanslip

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Liam Hardy

Freelance teaching staff: Kit

Discipline: Music

Dr Julia Havas

Senior Lecturer in Film and TV

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Anglo-American television; representations of gender, race, and nation on TV and film; streaming cultures; Hungarian TV and film; transnational/transcultural media flows, particularly those between Eastern European and Anglo-American media cultures.

Mark Helsby

Associate Lecturer in Film & TV Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Noah Henry

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Dr Marta Herrero

Subject Head of Creative Industries Management

Reader

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Nonprofit management and fundraising; interactive media and AI;  art market studies; history of fundraising in London's art market (mid 19th c. /early 20th c.)

Professor Andrew Higson

Professor Emeritus

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

British cinema history, especially the silent period, and the 1990s/2000s; Film Europe in the 1920s; cinema and the past; national/transnational cinema; Anglia Television and the history of ITV.

Dr Krisztián Hofstädter

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Enhancing Audio Description II

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

  • film sound
  • animal rights
  • creative writing
  • therapy with biofeedback art
  • meditation an altered states of consciousness

Claire Holden

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Robert Hollingworth

Anniversary Reader

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Performance: Renaissance and Baroque music; vocal ensembles.

Emily Holmes

Audio Technician

Research interests:

Film and television production, music technology, live sound production and broadcast audio.

Professor Jonathan Hook

Professor in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human-computer interaction; human-centred design of new interactive technologies for creative settings and practices; application of responsive and immersive creative media to address societal challenges (e.g. environmental sustainability, mental & physical health, public engagement with data).

Ben Horden

Freelance teaching staff: Organ

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

https://www.benhorden.com/

Professor Tim Howell

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Music

Dr Mark Hutchinson

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology, Performance: contemporary musical aesthetics and analysis; music and literature; piano accompaniment.

Dr Tom Jackson

Project Manager - RSVP

Dr Bethan Jones

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Fan and audience studies, in particular anti-fandom, dislike and toxicity in online spaces; screen tourism; tattoos and tattoo culture; skills and training in the screen industries. 

Christopher Jones

Freelance teaching staff: Violin

Discipline: Music

Dr Nick Jones

Senior Lecturer in Film, TV and Digital Culture

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital media; action cinema; 3D; the representation of space and architecture on film; media archaeology.

Member of the Digital Cultures cluster.

Dr Ollie Jones

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Medieval and early modern British drama, in particular the repertory of and performance by Elizabethan companies on tour; original practices and performance-as-research; the archaeology of medieval and post-medieval buildings; early theatre architectures.

Dr Richard Kearns

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Expanded filmmaking, media arts, multi-sensory environments, psychology of embodied experience, transmedia

Dr Fiona Keenan

Lecturer in Sound Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Sound performance and sonic interactivity; sonic experience; phenomenology; sound design and storytelling; prototyping and remaking as design methods; history and philosophy of technology; noisemakers and sound effects

Richard Keogan

Associate Lecturer

Technical Officer

Harriet King

Student Services Administrator (Postgraduate)

Kristl Kirk

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Dr Ben Kirman

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media - Web Interaction

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interaction design for games and playful experiences; critical and speculative design; mobile and social play; animal-computer interaction.

Eleanor Kornas

Freelance teaching staff: Piano

Discipline: Music

Ioanna Koullepou

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Ishita Krishna

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Caren Lawrence-Cummings

Finance Assistant

Professor Catherine Laws

Professor of Music

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology, Performance: contemporary music and experimental music practices; music and embodiment/subjectivity/identity; music and language; Samuel Beckett.

Mr Tim Leandro

Senior Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and television directing; story-telling; the magic of film; showbiz; creating worlds in the viewer's mind.

Kate Ledger

Freelance teaching staff: Piano

Discipline: Music

Joyce Lee

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Professor Nicola LeFanu

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Music

Dr Louise LePage

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Theatre and the posthuman; performing robots; twenty-first century drama; dramatic character; science-fiction theatre; technologies and film in theatre.

Daniel Lock

Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Extended Reality, Immersive Technology, VR Theatre, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction

Professor Mariana Lopez

Professor in Sound Production and Post-production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Sound Design for Theatre, Film and TV; Accessibility in audio-visual arts; Virtual Acoustics; York Mystery Plays; Digital Heritage.

Dr Catherine Love-Smith

Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Contemporary British theatre and performance; the relationship between text and performance; playwriting; adaptation for the stage; ecodramaturgy.

Dr Mark Love-Smith

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Contemporary British theatre and performance, devised and physical theatre, large-scale community productions, performance and social media.

Cathy Lowe

Freelance teaching staff: Oboe

Discipline: Music

Pietro Lusvardi

Freelance teaching staff: Double bass

Discipline: Music

James Mainwaring

Freelance teaching staff: Saxophonist and composer

Discipline: Music

Dr Liam Maloney

Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Sound recording, electronic dance music history, listening studies, music sociology, Dance Music Cultures.

Saad Maqbool

Associate Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr Daniel March

Senior Lecturer in Music

Chair of Postgraduate Research

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

  • Musical Analysis of 20th Century and Contemporary Music
  • Louis Andriessen, György Ligeti

Sarah Markham

Freelance teaching staff: Saxophone

Discipline: Music

Professor Roger Marsh

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Music

Professor John Mateer

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and TV production and postproduction; business of film and television; story and script development; single camera directing; cinematic virtual reality; advanced production and post-production technologies.

Shaun Matthew

Freelance teaching staff: Tuba

Discipline: Music

Sophie Maw

Research Trainee in AI Vision

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr Debbie Maxwell

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media - UX Design

Chair of Partnerships & Engagement

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement.

Dr Jack McNeill

Associate Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

  • Sound studies
  • Dance Music Cultures
  • Electronic dance music production and performance
  • Electroacoustic composition
  • Visual and participatory arts
  • Creative collaboration in music education

Dr Peter Merrington

Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interdisciplinary cultural production; the relationship between art, film and place; design and media histories; film exhibition and audiences; cultural policy; festivals and biennials; creative practice research; intercultural relations; curating and programming

Paul Milhau

Freelance teaching staff: Violin

Discipline: Music

Jon Mitchell

Student Services Administrator (Postgraduate)

Reena Morar

Communications & Administration Manager - RSVP

John Murray

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Nick Newman

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Kasia Nicklin

Lecturer in Multi-Camera Television Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Heather Niven

Associate Dean for Partnerships, Engagement and International

Lecturer in Management & the Creative Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr Naomi Norton

Lecturer in Music Education

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Education: teaching; learning; musicians' health and wellbeing; music psychology.

Mimi O'Neill

Associate Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

  • Music and emotion
  • Social experiences of music
  • Music psychology
  • Empirical methods in music research
  • Music and biospheric values

Serena Paese

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Julie Parker

Freelance teaching staff: Alexander Technique

Discipline: Music

Vince Parsonage

Freelance teaching staff: Viola

Discipline: Music

Kate Pearson

Visiting Lecturer in Community Music

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Education; Music-theatre; Opera; Composition

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

Postdoctoral Research Associate for CoSTAR LiveLAB

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Applied Machine Learning, Data-driven storytelling, AI in end-to-end solutions, UX, Esports, Data visualisation, AI in and for games, Games development

Susanna Pell

Freelance teaching staff: Viols

Discipline: Music

Federico Pendenza

Associate Lecturer in Music Education

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

  • Musicians' Health and Wellbeing
  • Music Education
  • Music Performance

Bex Perkins

Faculty Finance Assistant (embedded)

Laurence Perkins

Freelance teaching staff: Bassoon

Discipline: Music

Professor Lisa Peschel

Professor in Theatre

Chair of Research & Practice

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Theatrical performance in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Terezín/Theresienstadt, modern Czech theatre, theories of affect, identity and subjectivity, playwriting, translation and adaptation for the stage.

Professor Duncan Petrie

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Professor in Film

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

British, Scottish and New Zealand cinema and culture, with specific interests in the film-making process, the industrial structures and functioning of national cinemas, the art and craft of cinematography and the relationship between cultural expression and the question of the national.

Professor Benjamin Poore

Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Bella Powell

Associate Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Dr Richard Powell

Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology, Music Education: teaching; learning; analysis; music and temporality.

Dr Karen Quigley

Subject Head of Theatre

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Critical approaches to staging and unstageability; contemporary performance practice in the UK and Ireland; voice and music in contemporary theatre; autoethnographic approaches to writing about performance; pedagogies of theatre and performance in higher education.

Liz Quinlan

Postdoctoral Research Associate - RSVP

Dr Julia Rayner

Mentoring Coordinator - RSVP

James Redelinghuys

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Sarah Redgwick

Freelance teaching staff: Voice

Discipline: Music

Dr Federico Reuben

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition; Live electronics; Improvisation; Sound Art; Music Computing and Interactivity; Music and Artificial Intelligence (AI); Live Coding; Cross-arts Collaboration; Contemporary Music Studies; and Critical/contextual Studies of Digital and Sound Culture.

Jimmy Richards

Lecturer in Film and Television

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Steph Richards

PA / Administrator

Faye Robinson

Events and External Relations Assistant

Hannah Rodger

Associate Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

  • Classroom and peripatetic teacher collaborations
  • Musicology in the secondary music classroom
  • Intergenerational music education
  • English Church Music
  • Editing

Will Rowan

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Computer vision and machine learning applied to virtual production; 3D representations of the human face and body; multi-modal analysis and generation of real and virtual worlds. My work aims to enhance creative expression and innovation in film and television, enabling new possibilities in storytelling, special effects, and immersive experiences.

Mr Paul Ryan

Senior Lecturer in Screen Production and Postproduction

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Workflows and techniques for production and post production. Multi-camera studio techniques and processes. Editing and post production finishing in the storytelling process. Visual effects in theatre and interactive media.

Mr Sanjit Samaddar

Lecturer in Interactive Media

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user-centred design and evaluation methods. Quantitative and qualitative research methods. Acceptance and use of technology by older people. Accessibility, including AI and robotics to help age at home. Universal Design for (e)learning.

Gemma Sanchez

Student Well-being Officer for Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Leonard Sanderman

Research Affiliate

Freelance Music Teacher

Discipline: Music

Lesley Schatzberger

Freelance teaching staff: Clarinet and Classical clarinet

Discipline: Music

Dr Andrea Schiavio

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

4E music cognition (Embodied, Embedded, Extended, Enactive); Psychology of musical creativity; Interdisciplinary musicology; Music performance and education.

Professor Peter Seymour

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Music

Yvonne Seymour

Freelance teaching staff: Voice

Discipline: Music

Polly Sharpe

Freelance teaching staff: Piano

Discipline: Music

Dr Áine Sheil

Reader

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology: contemporary and 20th-century opera production; Wagner; critical musicology.

Professor Thomas Simaku

Professor

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition: European modernism; contemporary music; the string quartet.

Daniel Slawson

Research Software Engineer in Creative Technologies

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Tim Smedley

Freelance teaching staff: Cello

Discipline: Music

Edwina Smith

Freelance teaching staff: Flute and Baroque flute

Discipline: Music

Tom Straszewski

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr John Stringer

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition, Performance: contemporary performance practice; conducting.

Hilary Suckling

Piano Teacher

Discipline: Music

Professor Martin Suckling

Deputy Head of School

Subject Head of Music

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition, Performance: spectral and microtonal music; live electronics; orchestration.

Dr Hyojung Sun

Lecturer in the Business of Creative and Cultural Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital Disruption; Popular Music; Music Streaming; Valuation Studies; Copyright

Dr Jon Swords

Reader in Creative Industries Research

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Economic geography, specifically geographies of the creative industries; immersive technology and media; critical heritage studies; visual methodologies; post-representational cartography.

Ben Thomas

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lindsey To

UX Designer (Data Donation Services)

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

User Experience (UX) Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), ethical and transparent data systems, digital wellbeing, and the use of gamification to encourage meaningful user engagement. I am particularly interested in user-centred design approaches and how digital interfaces can be shaped to promote responsible behaviours and positive experiences in online environments.

Dr Nathan Townsend

Lecturer in Creative Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film industry scholarship, particularly the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood, national and transnational cinemas and the political economy of film and television institutions.

Carmen Troncoso

Freelance teaching staff: Recorder

Discipline: Music

Professor Andrew Tudor

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Sociology of film; cinema history; popular film genres (especially the horror movie); football on television; cultural studies.

Rebecca Turgoose

Student Services Coordinator

Professor Marian Ursu

Professor of Digital Creativity

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr Cobi van Tonder

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Heritage Acoustics, Immersive Audio, 3D audio, Composition, Sound art and Sound Design.

Andrew Vickers

Lecturer in Writing for Stage and Screen

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Screenwriting; story and script development.

Freddy Viner

Freelance teaching staff: Piano

Discipline: Music

Dr Caroline Waddington-Jones

Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music education, empathy, performance psychology.

Professor Jo Wainwright

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

16th- and 17th-century English and Italian music; Editing; Performance practice; English Church Music

Mr Colin Ward

Lecturer in Studio Television Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Single and multi-camera production techniques; writing for film and television; content creation; children's media production, regulation and financing.

Barrie Webb

Freelance teaching staff: Trombone

Discipline: Music

Christine Weeks

Receptionist and Administrative Assistant

Georgina Wells

Freelance teaching staff: Harp

Discipline: Music

Dawn Whitehead

Timetabling Coordinator - Music Subjects (embedded)

Helen Wilkinson

Timetabling Coordinator - TFTI Subjects (embedded)

Dr Matthew Williams

Lecturer in Music

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

  • Semiotics and Music’s Meanings
  • Popular Music and Religion
  • Topic theory
  • African diasporic music studies
  • Theology and Musical Borrowing
  • Secularisation
  • Intertextuality

Dr Nina Willment

Research Associate - Co-Producing EDI Interventions for Virtual Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Charlotte Wilson

Research Administrator - Co-Producing EDI Interventions for Virtual Production

Dr Emily Worthington

Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

The practice and culture of performance in Western Classical Music 1750-1950; Historically Informed Performance in repertoire 1750-1950; Wind music performance and repertoire; History of sound recording and broadcasting

Dr Fangzhou You

Lecturer in Digital Design

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Responsible design;
Designing for inclusion, sustainability and wellbeing;
Design for behaviour change;
Participatory design;
Gender-sensitive design in human computer interaction.

Susan Young

Lecturer

Freelance teaching staff: Voice

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Vocal performance, including art song, opera, contemporary music and musical theatre, vocal health and pedagogy.

Dr Monika Zabrocka

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Audiovisual translation and visual arts accessibility; Literary and poetic translation; Untranslatability and transcreation in translation; Compensational education and speech therapy.

Yaou Zhang

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Music

Dr Mengyao Zhao

China International Recruitment Specialist - Arts and Humanities (embedded)

Xinpei Zheng

Research Affiliate

Niki Zohdi

University of York Music Press Promoter and Administrator (external)