Performance, communication, creative industries

Delivering economic, social and environmental change by transforming how we connect and create.

Boundary-breaking insight into communication

Queen Mary is home to an unrivalled number of the UK’s leading communications research departments. From the number one ranked Drama department in the country to our world-class Antenna Labs and Centre for Multimodal AI, we are pioneers in multidisciplinary research on communication and interaction.

Creativity for social change

Our communication and interaction research spans many disciplines, but our experts share a creativity that allows us and our partners to reimagine what is possible. All driven by Queen Mary’s core mission to improve lives in our community and around the world through academic excellence.

Equitable collaboration

The impact of our creative and communication research is enabled by the relationships we have with our partners. We collaborate with the experts by experience every step of the research process, valuing their perspective and their voice, developing new tools and techniques, to empower them and their communities.

Research spotlight

The camera as witness – can body-worn cameras reduce violence?

Around the world, trust in the police has plummeted. How can we hold those who have sworn to protect us accountable?

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Who joins a political party and why?

Who joins or leaves a political party and why? What do parties think of their members and how does this impact their policies? And how does all of this play out in the media?

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Are you listening? Verbatim Theatre gives voice and ear to care-experienced young people

Since 2015, the Verbatim Formula (TVF) has collaborated with cohorts of care-experienced young people across the UK, developing a methodology to help adults listen better and young people to be heard.

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Disrupting the music industry with AI algorithms

Audio production can be time consuming, labour-intensive and expensive. A new cloud-based audio mastering service, LandR Audio, uses artificial intelligence algorithms to produce professional – but accessible – audio mastering.

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Taking Action on Salt: How Queen Mary’s research improved the food on your plate

Action on Salt has comprehensively shown the relationship between salt intake and blood pressure. Reducing salt in food is one of the most cost-effective public health policies available to the Government.

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