The Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics & Performance

CKP at Kent

The Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance (CKP) was launched in September 2010 and is the first research center in the UK to be devoted to this expanding and exciting field in the area of performance studies.

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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. It now involves academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines including Drama, Psychology, Film, Architecture, Anthropology, and Engineering & Digital Arts.

CKP aims to play an active role in the development of a national and international network of scholars and practitioners who believe that performance has a significant contribution to make within the field of cognition.

Cognitive Futures

in the Arts and Humanities 2018

New arts project will examine histories of gender play in music hall and pantomime

Kent is delighted to announce that the School of Arts has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, for a collaborative research and public engagement project titled Beyond the Binary. This project will examine the histories of gender play and presentation currently unexplored in Kent's music hall and pantomime collections. Specifically, re...

1 March 2022

Puppeteer and Kent graduate Peter Morton discusses career on Proper Job Podcast

18 February 2022

Supporting student success: Katie Edwards

14 December 2021

Supporting student success in the workshop: Pia Mitchell's tree

14 December 2021

Graduate profile: Kristin Bacheva, BA Drama and Theatre Studies and MA Physical Acting

12 November 2021

Drama and Theatre graduate Beatrice Hyde on her suffragette play 'Emmeline'

8 November 2021

Drama students and staff welcome The Walk to Canterbury

20 October 2021

Drama graduate, Taylor Sonko-Garvey, to support Linton Kwesi Johnson at the Gulbenkian

10 September 2021

Meet Kent Drama graduate, Ben Haigh, in new Proper Job Gradcast episode

6 September 2021

Arts and Humanities Heroes 2021

25 August 2021

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