Our staff are active in traditional scholarship – writing articles, books and book chapters and also active through theatrical, dance and musical performances, compositions and recordings. Many of these are collaborative ventures as staff share their expertise with each other.
Research in Music
We are involved across the range of research activity, from community music to music technology, from classical music and contemporary music performance to conducting.
Aotearoa New Zealand Music
- Community musics
- Professor Henry Johnson
- Music of Aotearoa, Māori Music and Taonga Pūoro
- Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole
- New Zealand classical music
- Professor Anthony Ritchie
- New Zealand cultural policy
- Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole
Classical Music
- Analysis of music
- Professor Peter Adams
- Composition
- Professor Peter Adams, Professor Anthony Ritchie, Dr Maddy Parkins-Craig
- Musicology
- Professor Peter Adams, Professor Anthony Ritchie, Dr Tessa Romano
- Nineteenth-century music
- Opera
- Professor Terence Dennis
- Twentieth-century music
- Professor Peter Adams, Professor Anthony Ritchie
Contemporary Popular Music
- Film music
- Professor Peter Adams, Professor Henry Johnson
- Folk music
- Popular music studies
- Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole, Dr Ian Chapman, Dr Michael Holland, Professor Henry Johnson
- Songwriting
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Dr Maddy Parkins-Craig
- Studio Production
- Dr Maddy Parkins-Craig, Dr Michael Holland
Music and Visual Culture
- Popular music iconography
- Dr Ian Chapman, Professor Henry Johnson
World Music
- Asian music, especially the traditional and popular music and culture of Japan
- Professor Henry Johnson
- British folk music
- Diaspora music
- Professor Henry Johnson
- Pacific music
- Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole
Find out more about postgraduate study in music
Research in Theatre
We are involved in a strong and diverse range of research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and explores topics and issues specific to theatre and drama. Theatre involves multiple materials, sights, sounds and historical periods and the research of our staff and students reflects this diversity.
Practice-led research
We are committed to promoting our practical theatre work as
- a form of research as well as
- a laboratory for, or complement to, research
The close links between practice and research questions is demonstrated by our projects on site-specific theatre and on verbatim/documentary theatre.
Our staff and students are involved in research that includes:
Design and site-specific theatre
- Light and set design
- Dr Martyn Roberts
Documentary/verbatim theatre
Gay/queer drama
Performance
- Contemporary performance
- Associate Professor Hilary Halba
- Performance and politics
- Associate Professor Suzanne Little
- Performance as research
- Associate Professor Suzanne Little
- Representations and the ethics of trauma and violence in performance
- Associate Professor Suzanne Little
Shakespeare
- Adaptations of Shakespeare
- Post-colonial Shakespeare
- Shakespeare in performance
Theatre directing
Theatre from Aotearoa New Zealand and other cultures
- Aotearoa New Zealand drama and theatre
- Associate Professor Hilary Halba, Professor Stuart Young
- Bicultural and intercultural theatre
- Associate Professor Hilary Halba
- Modern British theatre
- Professor Stuart Young
- Russian drama and theatre and translation studies
- Professor Stuart Young
Theatre theory and critical studies
- Historical and critical studies
- Associate Professor Hilary Halba
- Theatre and theatre theory
- Associate Professor Suzanne Little