The Cluster incorporates the broad sweep of Design, Music, Drama, Dance, Architecture, Visual Arts and Culture. It also includes the full range of media formats: film, television, web-based studies, communications studies, journalism and publishing, as well as library and information studies.
Chair: Edward Venn, School of Music, University of Leeds
| Member | University | Research interests |
| George Rodosthenous | Leeds | Performance and the body; improvisation; composition for performance |
| Sophie Bishop | Leeds | Creative work and the influence of social media; labour, representation and discrimination |
| Yuan Zeng | Leeds | International journalism; journalism and social change; comparative media studies; journalistic field; media sociology; political communication; media and society in Greater China |
| Martin Iddon | Leeds | Composition; musicology; new music after 1945 |
| Dorothy Ker | Sheffield | Composition, digital media in live performance, interdisciplinary collaborations |
| Eva Haifa Giraud | Sheffield | Alternative and activist media; food politics; ‘Lifestyle’ ethics; animal, anti-racist, and environmental activism); science and technology studies |
| Frances Babbage | Sheffield | Theatre and adaptation; text and performance; experience of performance |
| Emma Cheatle | Sheffield | Architecture and urban space; feminism and architecture; medical architectural spaces |
| Jonathan Eato | York | Composition; Jazz; interdisciplinary performance practice; South African popular music; improvisation; music and postcoloniality |
| Rachel Cowgill | York | Cultural-historical musicology; Mozart reception; opera studies; musical internationalism, diplomacy and commemoration; music, gender and identity, digital musicology, archives and performance histories |
| Janine Bradbury | York | Contemporary African-American women’s writing; American popular culture; Caribbean women’s writing; literature of the Black Atlantic |
| Ollie Jones | York | Early modern touring theatre; theatre architecture and performance |