Academy of Music & Theatre Arts: Research & Knowledge Exchange
We are performers, composers, producers and creative technologists who cultivate critical thinking and embodied knowledge.
Our mission is to respond to the social, environmental and creative challenges of our times. We make bold and ambitious work, pursuing innovative connections between bodies, form and technologies in Music, Theatre and Dance.
Research focus
The Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA) is a central locus for production and performing arts in Cornwall, producing a legacy of staff and student-led projects that enrich and enliven our creative culture and opportunities. We operate as a connective and empowering node within the Cornish Music and Theatre Arts cultures and scenes, facilitating research and knowledge exchange for our staff, students, graduates, and the wider communities. Our teaching and research is a major contributor to live performance in our region and we are driven to continue to develop the craft and technical innovation of our work to build a sustainable and compassionate future.
Across the breadth of our diverse styles and practice led approaches, our focus is on the primacy of nurturing imaginations, challenging perspectives, and finding ways to articulate the value of our artforms as that which tells stories, creates meaning and moves people to feel and respond.
Our four thematic areas are:
- Innovative and Inclusive Pedagogy and Scholarship
- Building Better Worlds: Compassionate Futures & Sustainable Communities
- On the Edge: Inequalities, Place and Dark Ecologies
- Augmenting Experience, Sensory Communication, and Immersive Technologies
Explore our research projects
ATTUNE
ATTUNE aims to increase the understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the impact on ...
Online Orchestra
By harnessing the internet, the Online Orchestra gave people living in remote communities the opport...
Live Audience Accessibility & Augmentation (‘LAAA’) Projects
The LAAA project aimed to evaluate audience experiences of engaging with authentic ‘live’ music ...
Revoicing Cultural Landscapes
Re-voicing Cultural Landscapes studies the relationships between majority and minority perspectives ...
Dark Sound: Feminine Voices in Sonic Shadow
This book by Senior Lecturer, D Ferrett, explores the cultural and historical association between wo...
Family Tree
Family Tree is a solo performance and exploration of multi-heritage experiences across four generati...
Polish Vermin
Polish Vermin is a piece of theatre which explores the lives of EU migrants living in the UK in the ...
Varyon VR
Varyon VR is a virtual theatre space for live and pre-recorded performance.
Discover our doctoral project briefs
Post-Immersive Experience Design
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
Capturing “The Spirit of Kneehigh”
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
Voice, Sonic Agency and the Environment
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
Moving through Materescence
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
Meet our PhD Researchers
Julianne Oc
Thesis title: Beyond the Female Popstar Paradigm: Selling Songs in Dark Times
Rose Johnson
Thesis title: Tis the Night of the Witch: Supporting Difference within Dark Fan Communities
Tom Hull
Thesis title: Wild Voices: understanding ecological changes in the natural world as signaled by the ...
