Faculty of Arts The Faculty of Arts offers a wide range of postgraduate study opportunities. It is a vibrant community dedicated to the provision of a challenging and high quality learning experience for students following programmes in the performing arts, media, literary and cultural studies. Research linked with professional practice is central to the Faculty’s activities. Staff are academic researchers, practitioners, writers, novelists, critics, musicians, dramatists and screenwriters – and all contribute to the growth of knowledge and culture both inside and outside the University. Students are encouraged to gain proactive experience within their chosen area of study. The Faculty of Arts regularly takes part in performances around the UK at events such as the Edinburgh Fringe and locally at the Hat Fair – a street theatre festival held annually in Winchester. The Faculty aims to ensure that research and knowledge exchange is a core activity engaged in by all academic staff. It has a strong track record of producing a range and variety of outputs, which enhance the reputation of the Faculty and the University at regional, national and international levels. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, and Dance, Drama and Performing Arts achieved results that indicated 85 per cent of work submitted was of a quality recognised internationally and above (with 5 per cent of world-leading quality). The Faculty has built on its success in being awarded major
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external grants from a variety of sources including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy, the European Union, the Arts Council, and the Heritage Lottery Fund. There are three research centres located within the Faculty. The Centre for Research into the Arts as Wellbeing supports the development of research projects in the area of performing arts practice and personal, social and environmental wellbeing. The Centre for Research into Communication, Culture and Media has a strong emphasis on the contemporary construction of identity and a shared engagement with cultural studies methodologies. The Centre for Research into Language is a multidisciplinary group with research interests and expertise in the broad area of language and linguistics. Two research groups are also based in the Faculty. Creative Writing consolidates an extensive and growing range of writing and reflexive practice (from ideas on poetic form and structure through to psycholinguistic analysis). The inter-institutional group RED (Research into Expanded Dramaturgies) aims to research and to advocate the development of ‘expanded’ dramaturgies. It explores both the diversity of emerging performance forms and structures, and contemporary dramaturgical practices.
Profile Dean of Faculty: Professor Anthony Dean Departments: English, Creative Writing and American Studies Performing Arts School of Media and Film Research Centres: Arts as Wellbeing Communication, Culture and Media Language Research Groups: Creative Writing Expanded Dramaturgies See pages 110-117 for more details about research in the Faculty of Arts
For more information on research centres in the Faculty of Arts see pages 110-117.
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