Our research groups explore established and emerging areas in Music and Performing Arts practice, theory and scholarship, drawing together renowned researchers and practitioners.
Our research in the Music and Performing Arts is interdisciplinary and works across all aspects, connecting with work in related disciplines such as creative computing, education, game studies, creative writing, history, visual arts and media. It enables academic staff and research students to collaborate through funded projects and focused research groups.
Since 2008, our researchers have hosted projects funded by external bodies, including the European Research Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Higher Education Academy, and REACT.
The Intercultural Communication through Practice research group considers how cultural heritage is shared across borders and how knowledge is transmitted through arts practice.
Intercultural Communication Through Practice
The Open Scores Lab functions as an environment in which creative practitioners can experiment with new approaches to scoring, working with colleagues in other disciplines to support their research.
Open Scores Lab
Sound Arts and Visual Music explores the new relationships between sound, image and music that are being forged in contemporary practice, especially where facilitated by new technologies, methods and tools
Sound Arts and Visual Music
The Sonic Materiality Lab brings together theorists and practitioners to develop understanding of the materiality of sound and sound-making things. This includes: instrument-making; notions of ‘low fi’; human and non-human agency; the materiality of the body; and notions of ‘low fi’.
The Sonic Materiality Lab
The School’s Performing Arts research areas are multi-disciplinary, looking at the impact of the arts on social change, the environment and notions of humanity. Research blends applied, interdisciplinary and professional practice.
This area works across the three main groups below.
The Arts and Social Change research group draws on interdisciplinary approaches to making visible, interrogating and mapping societal structures of power and oppression, and to engaging ethically and efficaciously with marginalised individuals, groups, identities, bodies and voices.
Arts and Social Change
This interdisciplinary group responds to a contemporary revision in notions of humanity, felt both viscerally and intellectually, for which the predominant answer is embodiment and creativity.
Creative Corporealities
Arts and Environmental Humanities is a new interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of research that addresses the cultural dimensions of today's pressing socio-environmental problems, such as resource depletion, environmental injustice, oceanic pollution and acidification, anthropogenic climate change, and escalating extinctions.
Research Centre for Environmental Humanities
With such a abroad and exciting range of research activity, Bath School of Music and Performing Arts is a great place to undertake study for a research degree. You can find out more on our music and performing art research degrees page.
