Our Research Centre

Our multidisciplinary research centre, Thinking Through Practice addresses cultural and societal issues surrounding both theoretical and practice-based research outcomes. We challenge conventional thinking, leading the way in pioneering new research.

Established in 2019-20, we use performance as a lens through which wider social issues can be addressed, we explore themes such as of diversity, wellbeing, cohesion and community, asking questions such as:

• How does making and thinking about performances provide a mechanism for wider societal commentary?
• What are the limits of this procedure?
• How can working through the lens of art-making provide value and benefit?
• How can performance-making contribute to disputes and questions in wider disciplinary areas in the sciences and humanities?

The Research Centre is multidisciplinary and forms a focus for institutional research at Trinity Laban. The Centre supports research groups that evolve to meet the needs of our research staff and students. Our current research groups in Dance, Performance and Musicology, Jazz and Composition, Performance Philosophy and Pedagogy place Sound and Movement Research and Thinking Through Practice at the core of their work.