MPhil/PhD in Theatre

University of Chichester

In achieving both artistic ambition and academic astuteness, prospective postgraduate theatre research students will join a thriving research environment. Postgraduate Arts Researchers at the University Of Chichester enjoy creative encouragement and the critical support of supervision within an inspiring community. As a department committed to innovative new performance within contemporary contexts, current theoretic frameworks and practice-based knowledge inform the excellence of teaching led by our research expertise. Areas of specialist supervision that may be of particular appeal to prospective postgraduate researchers in Theatre include: Theatre, health and wellbeing Trauma and transformation Performance intimacies and performative efficacies Arts and intervention within public place/space and site Post-colonialism(s) and dramaturgy Autobiological Performance Biopolitical performance in terrorism and tourism Through a programme of partnered research training, development events, exhibitions and performance, Postgraduate Researchers in Theatre further benefit from the opportunities for sharing and exchange of practices with research from Visual/Fine Art and Dance.