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 |
| Fiona Bannon | Leeds | Ethics, aesthetics and education; dance, collaboration and co-creation |
| Vien Cheung | Leeds | Colour vision; colour science; colour imaging; colour reproduction; colour management; spectral imaging |
| Yuan Zeng | Leeds | International journalism; journalism and social change; comparative media studies; journalistic field; media sociology; political communication; media and society in Greater China |
| Alinka Greasley | Leeds | Music listening behaviour; musical preferences; music perception with hearing aids; musicians’ hearing and hearing protection; musicians’ health and well-being; electronic dance music culture |
| Simon Keefe | Sheffield | Late 18th Century Music, especially Mozart; music reception and biography |
| Briony Birdi | Sheffield | Social, political and educational roles of public and youth libraries in society, with a particular focus on diversity, social justice and reading |
| Jonathan Rayner | Sheffield | Cinema and landscape and the representation of navies, naval combat and naval history on film |
| Kate Taylor-Jones | Sheffield | Film studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, media studies, visual culture and critical theory |
| Jonathan Eato | York | Composition; Jazz; interdisciplinary performance practice; South African popular music; improvisation; music and postcoloniality |
| Mariana Lopez | York | Music, sound design and acoustics |
| 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 |