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an innovative research community

LARC is home to more than sixty doctoral students. Under the supervision of our experienced and supportive staff they pursue a wide range of research topics across the creative arts. One of the most innovative features of the doctoral programme at Leeds Beckett University is that many students are working on PhDs where practice is the central part of their work. To see the topic areas covered for doctoral study within LARC please look at our staff research profiles where you will get a sense of the subjects where we can offer supervision.

If you want to discuss your ideas for a PhD then please contact Professor Robert Shail (r.shail@leedsbeckett.ac.uk) for film, music or performing arts and Professor Simon Morris (s.morris@leedsbeckett.ac.uk) for art and design. Please contact Renee Tobe (R.Tobe@leedsbeckett.ac.uk) for architecture, Urban Design, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture.

If you would like to apply to study with us for a PhD please visit The Graduate School where you will find more details of the application process.

student profiles

Below are profiles of some of our doctoral students illustrating the wide range of approaches taken.

Jessica Chaney

Jessica Chaney is a PhD candidate at Leeds Beckett University. Jessica is exploring the witch in a practice-based research framework, interrogating, and exploring the idea of the witch as a potentially feminist figure in contemporary theatre practices.

Shambik Ghose

Devising a contemporary dance pedagogic technique and a movement language for contemporary dancers emerging out of hybridizing the principles of Indian Kathak and Western Jazz dance technique.

Helen Clarke

Helen Clarke is an artist and Lecturer in Art and Design. Her doctoral research project Streetwalker: the flâneuse and the electronic flâneur, looks at the politics of the female body in the public space of the street.

Danielle Millea

Danielle Millea is a film school support member of staff and PhD candidate at Leeds Beckett University in the Leeds School of Arts. Her research project is a study of 360° video as a learning tool for filmmaking.

Yoni Collier

An examination of how location based recording, musical performance and production can be used as tools for examining artistic practice, landscape and history.

Salim Yavus

An examination about the genealogy of British death/doom metal music world and the effects this musical style has on the participants of this music world.

Aletia M Badenhorst

Aletia uses a practice as research methodology to performatively respond to the Richard Demarco archive at the Demarco European Art Foundation.

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Amanda J. Allen

Amanda J. Allen has an MA in Writing for Script and Screen and is currently working towards her practice based creative arts research, at the School of Arts, into 'The Forgotten Generation'.

Clare Nattress

Clare Nattress began her part-time PhD in February 2020 and is exploring how can cycling be used as a performative art methodology to investigate, reveal and disseminate the problem of air pollution?

Lara Rose

Lara Rose is a Practice-as-Research PhD candidate. Her research project entitled, Yoruba culture and its influence on artistic practices in Leeds will focus on how Yoruba culture from varying sources has influenced and informed contemporary artistic practice in Leeds.

Zara Worth

An exploration of the possibility of social media platform Instagram acting as a site for visual and performance art. How might Instagram be used as a site for art?

Victoria Sharples

A practice-based, environmental, research project, which meditates on natural phenomena and draws attention, by artistic means, to eco-political concern.

Natasha Parcei

An inter-disciplinary examination of the representation of older women in recent British Cinema.

Supervisors

We offer exciting opportunities to study for a doctorate in subjects right across the creative arts including by practice. Below is a list of our PhD supervisors who can offer support and guidance drawing on their expertise and experience within their own specialisms. If you are thinking about studying with us, please follow the links below to find out more about each supervisor and then please feel free to contact them to discuss your research ideas. We look forward to hearing from you.