Newcastle University

Research

Information here on the Research Assessment Exercise 2008.

The School of Arts and Cultures has a vibrant intellectual culture which provides the basis for cutting-edge research and scholarship in and across the fields of:

• Fine Art
  
  
• Music
  
  
• Media and Cultural Studies
  
  
• Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies
  
  

The School is home to a great variety of research types:

• practice as research, e.g. in music composition and performance and in fine art;
  
• historical, critical and theoretical studies, e.g. in musicology, art history and museology;
  
• research into architecture, design and technology in museum and gallery studies;
  
• sociological and psychological research in cultural and heritage studies;
  
• research either focusing on, and/or utilising, digital media

As well as this, we recognise that the unique blend of disciplines within the School provides exciting possibilities for the cross-fertilisation of ideas and for interdisciplinary research groupings and activity. We are in the process of capitalising on such possibilities and developing the long-term sustainability of the School as a research environment.