The Department of Theatre offers supervisory expertise in a wide range of subject areas, including early modern theatre and performance practices, nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre and performance, contemporary British theatre, adaptation and translation of theatre and performance, contemporary performance practices, performance archives, dance histories and practices, the role of the body in performance, philosophy and performance. The department has particular strengths in historical research and practice-as-research, and offers the opportunity for practice-based projects as well as projects based in the archives of the Theatre Collection, housed in the department, an accredited museum with the second largest theatre archive collection in the UK. Where research proposals span various disciplines, a supervisory team will be assembled across departments and faculties to meet the needs of the project. Alongside faculty training opportunities, all first-year research students also benefit from departmental training seminars covering critical and professional issues. A large number of graduates from this programme develop careers in higher education or work on high level research projects in the field of Theatre and Performance; some graduates take up careers in directing and producing.