Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance

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

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Oliver Double on Front Row

Dr Oliver Double, Reader in Drama in the School of Arts and Director of the Centre for Popular and Comic Performance, featured on BBC Radio 4's Front Row last week, to attempt to answer why is the unfortunate mishap hilarious – so long as someone else is falling off the ladder? Front Row is a magazine programme discussing the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music. 'One of the oldest theories of why we laugh is that we laugh at the expense of somebody else,' ex...

10 October 2018

Podcast on comedienne Linda Smith's signature gags

21 September 2018

Nicola Shaughnessy shortlisted for THE award

13 September 2018

PATAZ: Physical Actor Training - An Online A-Z

12 July 2018

First-Year Music Performance Scholar and BA Drama & English Language and Linguistics Student works with composer Andrew Lippa

26 June 2018

Drama academic wins 2018 TaPRA Early Career Research Prize

19 June 2018

Student Success at Employability Points Rewards Evening 2018

8 June 2018

Drama academic shortlisted for TaPRA Early Career Award

23 May 2018

Alumni doing their bit for #TimesUp

19 April 2018

Moving Memory Awarded Art Council 'Celebrating Age' Award!

3 April 2018

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