Alison Lloyd Williams


Research Clusters and Centres LICA organises its research in four clusters: Culture, Theory,


Context; Environments; Languages of Form; and Languages of Process; and two research centres: the Centre for the Advanced Study of Contemporary Performance Practice; and ImaginationLancaster. They provide focus, visibility and network opportunities for individual and collaborative research. These are linked to programmes of workshops, seminars, lectures, performances and exhibitions. All staff contribute to one or more of the research clusters.


Culture, Theory, Context: The unifying theme is the advance in critical understanding of art, film, music, new media, and theatre in the 20th and 21st centuries, through interrogations alert to both shared and particular features of their cultural, social, political and theoretical contexts. A recurring question, across the different media and conceptual and critical discourses, is that of the adequacy and appropriateness of theory, given the rapidly changing requirements of practice in light of changes in political, cultural and technological environments.


Environments: Research is directed towards environmental knowledge and awareness in dialogue with community groups and wider users. It articulates concerns and debates in the public sphere, regionally and internationally. Cross- disciplinary work focuses on the landscape of natural and constructed spaces, and the production of products and services. There are two research groupings: People, Products and Places generate new understanding of the roles for designers; and Landscape and Space is concerned with new forms of expression through engagement natural and human landscapes.


Languages of Form explores materials and forms as elements of creative language utilising exhibitions, performances, and music computation and composition for engagement. Materials, techniques and technology are tested, manipulated and applied in combination with informed aesthetic enquiry. Innovative methods of process and production in sound and image explore memory, aesthetic self-consciousness, and sensory immersion using digital technology, with outcomes disseminated widely to large and varied audiences.


42 Arts and Social Sciences PhD Student – AHRC BHP Award Recipient 2009


“Lancaster is a great place to live and study. The university deserves its reputation as friendly and welcoming and the campus environment encourages an open exchange of ideas between different disciplines. As my research is very interdisciplinary, I value the opportunities to meet and work with staff and students from my own and other departments at seminars and conferences and through links with various research centres. There is also good training and support for postgraduates here at Lancaster, providing the chance to share experiences with others.”


“Overall, it’s exciting to be part of a dynamic research community which presents fresh perspectives that challenge your own work. The interplay of theory and practice is central to the LICA ethos and this approach has really stimulated my own creativity and development as an applied theatre artist and researcher. I enjoy the arts activities on campus - the Nuffield Theatre is a real asset - but there are also many other ways to get involved in the life here.”


Languages of Process interrogate the relationship between thinking and making in specific creative practices and the artefacts that result. There are three research groupings: Visual Intelligences explores ways of documenting intention and critical judgement within different approaches to creative practice in visual art; Design Processes researches into the role of the designer in changing technological and social conditions; and Contemporary Performance Practice explores new methodologies of contemporary practice in performance, dance, live art, installation and inter-media, and the processes of creative practice.


Centre for the Advanced Study of Contemporary Performance Practice (CASCPP) conducts interdisciplinary enquiry that generates and leads research into what constitutes creative practice in performance across a range of areas and cultural activities. Central to this is collaboration with a wide community of scholars, artists and practitioners and its association with the Nuffield Theatre is therefore vitally important.


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