School of Arts

Research centres and groups

The School of Arts’ cross disciplinary research centres and groups provide a focus for staff and postgraduate student research activity.  Each centre hosts a programme of research events including international exchanges, conferences, seminars and symposia.

Aesthetics Research Centre

The Aesthetics Research Centre coordinates, enables and promotes research in philosophy of art and aesthetics at the University of Kent. For regular updates on events and activities please follow on Twitter and Facebook. ---

Art History and Visual Cultures Research Centre

This new Research Centre promotes and co-ordinates research amongst the growing community of staff and PG students active at Kent in the field of Art History.

Melodrama Research Group

Beacon Institute

Kent’s Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance has won a University of Kent 50th anniversary grant to establish The Beacon Institute.

Centre for Film and Media Research

The purpose of the Centre is to draw together scholars from across the University who use film and the moving image as an integral part of their research. The Centre seeks to support projects that promote collaboration between individuals and other research centres. 

Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance

The wish to see a centre for studies in the field emerged in response to a number of synergies developing amongst scholars in the School of Arts and the desire to have a forum for generating interdisciplinary research through collaborative work. 

European Theatre Research Network

Our premise is that European theatre is not a coherent formula of aesthetic and artistic practices but in fact a widespread landscape of many local contexts and discourses.

Melodrama Research Group

Melodrama Research Group

The Melodrama Research Consortium was founded by Matt Buckley and brings together scholars from several disciplines to foster collaborative networks for studying this pervasive, but challenging, genre. 

Melodrama Research Group

Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences

A research network situated at the University of Kent but open to all scholars interested in fan and film magazines and their position as a meeting ground between industry and audiences. 

Popular and Comic Performance Research centre

Popular and Comic Performance (PCP) research centre

We are interested in popular and comic forms in which performers engage directly with audiences and measure success by the applause and laughter they receive. 


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Last Updated: 12/02/2016