Centre for Media, Art & Design Research and Engagement (MADRE)

The Centre for Media, Art & Design Research and Engagement (MADRE) is hosted by the School of Arts & Media and brings together over 30 research-active members of staff from across the School, including both embryonic and early career researchers engaged in theory and practice based creative investigations.

Professor Paul Sermon, Head of MADRE and Associate Head of School for Research & Innovation, coordinates research in the School and is leading the Art and Design submission to the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework in 2014. In addition to practice based research outputs, including installations, performances and exhibitions, art and design research is also disseminated via refereed journal articles, book publications, reviews, research reports and international conference papers.

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, staff from the School made their first Art and Design submission to the national assessment of research and secured an impressive power ranking, positioning them in the top half of UK Higher Education Art and Design institutions. With the approaching Research Excellence Framework in 2014 the School of Arts & Media are building on the platform provided by their initial submission through the impact of longstanding research projects such as Design Against Crime, focusing on achieving high quality research outputs and making full use of the world leading research facilities at MediaCityUK, including the Digital Performance Lab and the EGG media exhibition space.

Research in the MADRE centre is structured and organised via three research clusters:

Creative Technology and Communications

Design Innovation and Socially Responsible Design

Contemporary Fine Art and Public Engagement