Theatre Studies

We offer postgraduate research students a wide range of options for independent study, from one-year taught degrees to three-year doctoral programmes.  In undertaking such a programme, you will be joining a thriving and vibrant postgraduate community. We welcome students from a variety of backgrounds, working on areas of specialist interest using methods from the arts, humanities and social sciences, including, where appropriate, research through practice. Topics in which we would welcome postgraduate research include: ecology, environment and heritage history and historiography dramaturgy and playwrighting adaptation intermediality and digital arts Scottish theatre practice-based research queer and gender theory Shakespeare and performance intercultural performance physical theatre and actor training live art curation and museology autobiography site-based performance contemporary German and French theatre temporalities and geochronology theatre and the elements politics and memory Theatre, Film and Television Studies and the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (environment) was rated joint first place and in the Top 20 for (overall and outputs) in the recent research excellence framework (REF 2014)