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Leeds arts research centre

Bringing together creative practitioners and academics across Leeds Beckett University.
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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. 

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.

phd studentships in creative arts

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. 

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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. 

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featured research

Sean Ashton | The Way We Work

April saw the publication of my novel The Way to Work, and I’ve been doing a few promotional things: interviews for Radio Cambridge and Talk Europe; articles for The Big Issue, The Irish Times, Best American Poetry; and a forthcoming reading at Camden Arts Centre with Sally O’Reilly and Susan Finlay.  

Nikos Stavropoulos | International Sonosfera Ambisonics Competition Award

The name of the work, Khemenu, is derived from Egyptian mythology and refers to The Ogdoad, a group of eight primordial deities worshipped in ancient Egypt. The group consisted of four male and female couples who are symbolising the balance between the primary elements of the cosmos.
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Lara Rose | PhD Researcher

My current PhD project is entitled, The Dr Geraldine Connor (1952-2011) civic Aworan statue: Yoruba culture and its influence on artistic practices in Leeds. Yoruba culture, art and spirituality have suffered dehumanising narratives from colonisers, explorers, and religious authorities.
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Alan Dunn | Reader in Art & Design

My three main current long-term research projects are Where the Arts Belong, FOUR WORDS, and the AHRC-funded Network project I have just launched, Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place with Dr Helen Tookey, Reader in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University and a Lowry expert as Co-Investigator. 
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Kiff Bamford | Reader in Contemporary Art

The book Readings in Infancy has been published by Bloomsbury Academic after a long time in development. It is a translation of a book by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) which was originally published in France in 1991 as Lectures d’enfance.
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Shambik Ghose | Conversing with the crow

My research inquiry evidences a somatically informed hybrid contemporary dance pedagogy and a movement system emerging from hybridizing Kathak and Jazz dance techniques.
Sue Miller

Professor Sue Miller | Who am I?

I am an academic and a professional flute improviser and musical director of 'Charanga del Norte,’ a band I formed in 1998. I am many things -  an academic, a writer, a professional musician, a linguist and a teacher; I combine my professional work as a performer with my academic career.
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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.

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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.

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musicians without borders: call-out

Up to 25 funded places available 

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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