Areas of strength in which supervision can be offered: performance practices: emerging, interdisciplinary and hybrid forms and practices, cultural contexts, live art, the body and discourse, dynamic theories of form, gender and performance; music: experimental music, 20th-century music (especially American), ethnomusicology (especially music of Africa), instrumental music, electroacoustic music, composition, analysis; theatre: devised theatre, theoretical perspectives on 20th-century theatre, radical popular theatre, rural and community theatre, 20th-century theatre; dance and dance theatre: history, criticism and aesthetics; performance writing: gender and performance, writing and spatiality, contemporary poetry; visual performance: critical theory of scenography/theatre design, image and representation, relation between fine art and performance; fine arts theory and practice: colour theory, structural dynamics of form; arts management.