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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Nicola Shaughnessy interviewed on BBC South East news

Nicola Shaughnessy, Professor of Performance in the School of Arts, featured on the BBC South East news last night, 6 December 2018, as part of her Arts and Humanities Research Council project 'Playing A/Part'. Dr Melissa Trimingham, also from the School of Arts, was featured as a co-investigator, working a puppet with the autistic girls participating in the research. The project investigates the relationship between autism and gender through the u...

7 December 2018

Two nights of Monkeyshine comedy from stand-up students

6 December 2018

Margherita Laera to lead translation workshop on Francesca Garolla

5 December 2018

Applied Theatre students give celebratory performance

5 December 2018

Popular Performance students to lead evening of cabaret

4 December 2018

Nostalgia podcast with Will Wollen

3 December 2018

Alumna Storme Toolis' Redefining Juliet at the Barbican

27 November 2018

Congratulations to our graduates

23 November 2018

National Archives highlights comedy podcast

22 November 2018

Podcast recalls comedian Felix Dexter

9 November 2018

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Last Updated: 10/01/2018