Members

Dr Morteza Abolhasani, Lecturer in Marketing: consumer behaviour, consumer psychology, and sensory marketing; the effects of music used in advertising and service/retail environments.

Dr Naomi Barker, Senior Lecturer in Music: cultural contexts of late-sixteenth and seventeenth-century music in Italy, especially Rome; seventeenth-century Italian keyboard and other instrumental music; performance practice; and cross-disciplinary aspects of music, art and science.

Dr Helen Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Music: British, and especially Welsh, music history from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a particular interest in the musical experience of ‘ordinary people’; interdisciplinary aspects of music, literature, visual art and history.

Dr Lucy Bryant, Lecturer in Criminology: the regulation of live music in England and Wales.

Professor Sophie Grace Chappell, Professor of Philosophy: ethics, political philosophy, ancient philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of sex and gender.

Dr Martin Clarke, Senior Lecturer in Music: music and religion in Britain since the eighteenth century; Welsh music history; music in nineteenth-century Britain.

Dr Helen Coffey, Senior Lecturer in Music: music, sound, place, community and politics c.1500-c.1700, especially in Germany and Austria.

Dr Steve Conway, Lecturer in Criminology: sociology of popular musical forms and culture; the relationship between expressive media and creativity (including samplers, drum machines, recording studio as an instrument).

Dr Carolyn Cooke, Senior Lecturer in Education: music education, STEAM, posthumanism, transdisciplinarity and sound in learning.

Dr Enrico Daga, Senior Research Fellow: knowledge technologies and computational methods applied to scholarly data in musicology, music history, and musical cultural heritage.

Professor Delia da Sousa Correa, Professor of Literature and Music: connections between literature and music, particularly in the Victorian and early-modernist periods.

Dr James Dooley, Lecturer in Music Technology: composition and performance with technology (particularly new interfaces for musical expression), music and computer interaction, electronic music performance practice.

Professor Byron Dueck, Professor of Music: North American Indigenous music and dance and the music of central Cameroon; xylophone music performed in and around Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital; rhythm and metre, music analysis, and music and/as public culture.

Dr Rosemary Golding, Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Music: music in nineteenth-century Britain; history of music in education; history of music, health and wellbeing; archive and document studies.

Dr Anthony Gunter, Senior Lecturer in Childhood & Youth Studies: race/ethnicity, urban youth cultures and alternative transitions; music-based arts practice and youth violence prevention; prosecuting rap — specifically, the problematic utilisation of Black/urban musical forms as evidence in courtrooms by police and prosecutors.

Dr Laura Hamer, Senior Lecturer in Music: Feminist Musicology/Women in Music Studies, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, French Music, Popular Music Studies, Inclusive Music Pedagogy.

Dr Simon Holland, Director of Music Computing Lab:  Music Computing generally, but in particular Music and Human Computer Interaction (also known as Music Interaction).

Dr Lucy Hollingworth, Staff Tutor in Music, music composer with a focus on life story and string writing: women composers in the twentieth century, autoethnography, feminist musicology. 

Professor Robin Laney, Professor of Computational Musicology: Generative AI, modelling of style, creative processes.

Dr Alexander Kolassa, Lecturer in music: music, modernism, and medievalism; sound and music on stage, film, television, and video games.

Dr Adam Linson, Lecturer in Computing & Communications: cognitive biology related to the flexible interplay of perception, action, imagination, and memory, including in music cognition/psychology/neuroscience (particularly in improvisation and in affordances for embodied interaction with performers, instruments, interfaces, etc.); modernism in music and other arts; philosophy.

Professor Derek Matravers, Professor of Philosophy: Music and the emotions, theories of expression in music.

Professor Elaine Moohan, Professor of Musicology: fifteenth- and sixteenth- century European liturgical music and its sources; history of music in Glasgow.

Professor Enrico Motta, Professor of Knowledge Technologies: AI techniques to extract insights and facilitate the analysis of very large collections of documents, in particular in the scholarly literature and news media domains.

Dr Paul Mulholland, Senior Research Fellow: Citizen interpretation and curation of music and visual art, music technology.

Dr Maria Nita, Lecturer in Religious Studies: activism and the arts, religion and the climate movement, protest, ritual, performance, cross-cultural engagement with the climate crisis, Green Christianity.

Dr Carla Rees, Music Programme Leader (OCA): development of contemporary repertoire for Kingma (quartertone) System flutes and baroque flute, performance, composer-performer collaborations, digital scores, telematic performance 

Dr Malik Refaat, Staff Tutor in Psychology and Counselling: Hearing perception and Absolute (Perfect) Pitch, music performance and anxiety, anxiety in improvisation, gender and role models for young musicians.

Professor George Revill, Professor of Cultural Historical Geography: music and the politics of landscape, geographies of voice and voicing, sonic environments and environmental change.

Professor Bart Rienties, Professor in Learning Analytics: Educational Technology, Learning Analytics, Learning Design, Internationalisation.

Professor David Rowland, Professor of Music: performance history (especially of the piano); music publishing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; music notation; listening history.

Dr Robert Samuels, Senior Lecturer in Music: music analysis, critical theory, art music of the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, word and music studies (particularly the relationship between music and literature in the nineteenth century).

Professor David Sharp, Professor of Musical Acoustics: measuring and evaluating the playing characteristics of musical instruments, in particular woodwind and brass instruments; developing non-invasive acoustical measurement techniques.

Dr Lilian Simones, Staff Tutor in Music: music education, in particular creativity development for music teachers and learners; integration of music and technology in teaching and learning; music teacher education and professional development and gestural studies in music education.

Dr Jaspal Singh, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language: the intersections between language and culture in hip hop and reggae, including the creation of sonic identities through beatboxing and the appropriation of Jamaican language by non-Jamaican reggae and dancehall artists in India, Germany and the UK.

Dr Margit Thøfner, Senior Lecturer in Art History: the relationship between sound, music, poetry and the artworks found in urban spaces and interiors where music was performed during the early modern period in in the Netherlands, Germany, England, Scotland and Scandinavia.

Dr Marie Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music: tinnitus and aural difference; sound studies; music technologies, gender and social reproduction.

Dr Sean Williams, Senior Lecturer in Music: electronic music production, performance practice and instruments, sound recording, improvisation.

Dr Ben Winters, Senior Lecturer in Music: music and sound in screen media, particularly the cinema of classical Hollywood.

Dr Eira Wyn Patterson, Staff Tutor, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies: self-efficacy and its impact on learning; social justice and agency in learning; the impact of constructivist-informed practice on students’ learning in higher education.

Andrea Bolzoni (Music Computing), Deep Musicianship (Deepmus) - A Deep Learning Based Co-Creative AI Improvising System

Daniel Brew (Music), Expanding Idiomatic Electric Guitar In Contemporary Music

Paul Britten (Music), Municipal Orchestras in English South-coast Towns and the Reasons for the Differences in Approach

Caroline Cowan (Music), August Manns and the Saturday Concerts at the Crystal Palace: A study of British composers and their premiere concerts with relation to canon formation and the 'English Musical Renaissance'

Bridget Cunningham, Johann Adolph Hasse and the operatic music of eighteenth-century London

Martin Dupras (Music Interaction), Capturing and Manipulating Representations of Gesture and Expression in Live Music Performance

Ann Grindley (Music), Fin-de-siècle Salon Culture: A Reappraisal of Cécile Chaminade

Louise Guy (Music), Recorders in Scottish Education: the life and work of Brian Bonsor

Lizzy Hardman (Music), Confronting Canonicity And Promoting Diversity: Gender And Contemporary Concert Programming

Dawn Weeden (Music), Salvation Army Brass Band Festivals: Mission, Message and Performance

Giorgio Zampirolo (Music), The Gaps Between Instruction and Learning in Present Music MOOCs: Perception and Reality