Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
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Leeds arts research centre


The Leeds Arts Research Centre (LARC) at Leeds Beckett University brings together researchers with shared interests and ambitions across broad areas of creativity and professional practice within the arts and popular culture. Specific areas covered include Art and Design, Music, Drama, Dance, Architecture, Creative Technologies, Film, and Performing Arts.Â
The majority of staff currently work within the Leeds School of Arts.
The centre formally launched in the autumn of 2017, indicating a recognition by our university of the potential for substantial research development and growth within the area. The centre has a strong core of both experienced and early career researchers and provides a visible, outward-facing ‘research home’ and identity for these staff and their research students.
The work being undertaken encompasses more traditional academic outputs such as journal articles and monographs alongside exciting and innovative practice-based research. Much of the latter is high impact, engaging with external bodies and individuals to produce work which challenges and changes lives.
The centre is led by Simon Morris, Professor of Art, and Robert Shail, Professor of Film.
Professor Morris's own research centres on radical artistic reworkings of text as material object, whilst Professor Shail's work focuses on masculinity in British cinema and children's films. For them both, LARC has been a labour of love.
Deadline to apply: 9th June
We're offering four fully funded doctoral studentships (stipend + fees) and three doctoral fee waivers commencing in October 2023.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidates to undertake original, ground-breaking research work within a thriving creative arts environment. These are funded studentships and as a PhD candidate you will be part of a vibrant team within Leeds School of Arts, joining a growing research community with interests across creative arts practice.

featured research

inside / out
Our INSIDE/OUT series of lectures brings the best minds of our generation to inspire and support the work students and colleagues do across the Leeds School of Arts. To this end, we have flown in renowned speakers from around the globe. In order to enhance the cultural life of Leeds, we make the lecture series open to the general public and available to an international audience online.

LARC is the home to 143 academics and their research. What matters to us at Leeds Beckett University is not so much the work we do individually but what our research allows others to do: its impact on local, national and international communities. We are a recognised centre of excellence for practice as research in the arts that make a positive difference to the lives of others.

musicians without borders: call-out
Leeds School of Art is working with Musicians Without Borders to bring a new training program to Leeds. This opportunity is for enthusiastic arts practitioners with a range of levels of experience in the community arts sector.
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Professor Robert Shail
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Aidan Winterburn
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts
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Professor Robert Shail
Director of Research / Leeds School Of Arts -
Professor Simon Morris
Director of Research / Leeds School Of Arts -
Aidan Winterburn
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Alex Gaites
Senior Lecturer / Carnegie School Of Education -
Dr Alexander Kelly
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Anna Pepe
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Anna Zaluczkowska
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Annabelle Pangborn
Head of Subject / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Aris Lanaridis
Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Ben Dalton
Principal Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Benjamin Hall
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Che John
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Christopher Bloor
Principal Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
David Beckitt
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Adele Senior
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Alan Dunn
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Anne Schiffer
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Christopher Harris
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Elisa Oliver
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Jill Gibbon
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Kiff Bamford
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Laura Griffiths
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Lewis Paul
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Lisa Taylor
Head of Subject / School Of Humanities And Social Sciences -
Dr Liz Stirling
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Matt Green
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Mohamad Hafeda
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Nasser Hussain
Senior Lecturer / School Of Humanities And Social Sciences -
Professor Nikos Stavropoulos
Professor / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Oliver Bray
Dean of School / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Paul Ratcliff
Principal Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Paul Thompson
Reader / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Richard Stevens
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Sarah Bowen
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Sean Ashton
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Professor Sue Miller
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Dr Gillian Dyson-Moss
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Graham Hibbert
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Hannah Edyvean
Senior Lecturer / Leeds Business School -
Dr Ian Truelove
Principal Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
James Chinneck
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Jo Hassall
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Joan Love
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Joanna Leah
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Jo Hamill
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Jonathan Briggs
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Julia Kelly
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Keith Dando
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Kingsley Ash
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Laura Taylor
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Lauren Moriarty
Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts -
Lizzie Coombes
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Luci Clements
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Marion Harrison
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Dr Mark Flisher
Head of Subject / Leeds School Of Arts -
Martyn Rainford
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Mick Marston
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Nathaniel Mellors
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Peter Lewis
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Philip Robertson
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Dr Rachel Krische
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Robin Brinkworth
Senior Lecturer / Leeds School Of Arts -
Sarah Cooper
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