Beth Carroll

Beth Carroll is a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, affiliated with the Centre for International Film Research. Her research examines audiovisual culture, particularly sound-space interactions and mediated environments. She explores video games, virtual reality, musicals, and phenomenology, focusing on immersion and engagement. Carroll actively supervises PhD students and teaches in film and media studies.

Carroll earned her PhD from the University of Southampton, where she investigated spatial dynamics in musical theatre. This work established her interest in audiovisual experience, which continues to drive her current projects.

Her primary research areas include Sound Studies, Music, Space, Phenomenology, and Genre. Recent projects analyze the sound environments of early Southampton cinemas, using technology to reconstruct lost architectural acoustics. She also studies meta-diegesis in musical films and transmedia storytelling patterns in games, emphasizing how sensory experiences shape audience engagement.

Carroll's publications (2016-2025) show a trajectory from musical film analysis ("Contemporary musical film", 2017) to interactive media. Recent work (2020-2025) addresses transmedia storytelling, alternate reality games, and vocal performance in musicals. Her scholarship consistently links spatial theory with sensory experience, revealing how architecture and technology mediate cultural narratives.

No major scientific awards or fellowships are currently listed in Dr. Carroll's public profile.

Carroll supervises five PhD students in Film: Sihui Li, Nan Zhou, Weiyi He, Wenxin Cai, and Geyu Wu. Her mentorship focuses on audiovisual culture and spatial dynamics. While specific grants are not detailed, her ongoing cinema reconstruction project indicates active research support.

As a member of the Centre for International Film Research, Carroll contributes to a collaborative environment that fosters innovative film scholarship through interdisciplinary methods and global perspectives.