The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research projects

Our most recent and ongoing externally funded research projects include:

Date Project Title & Description Grant holder(s) Funder(s)
2010-11 Everything and Nothing: a partnership for public engagement in mathematics through performance Dorothy Ker
with Professor Marcus du Sautoy (Oxford University) and Dr Kate Allen (Reading University)
EPSRC
2009-2010 Emotional communication in speech prosody and music Dr Eduardo Coutinho and Dr Nicola Dibben Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and a University of Sheffield Arts and Humanities Rapid Response Grant.
2009-2010 The influence of emotional responses on attention and expectation in music perception Renee Timmers BA
2008 The 19th Step: partnership for public engagement with mathematics Dorothy Ker
with Professor Marcus du Sautoy (Oxford University), Dr Carol Brown (Roehampton University) and Dr Kate Allen (Reading University)
EPSRC
2007-2012 White Rose East Asia Centre: East Asian identities and cultures cluster Prof. Jonathan Stock
with staff from the School of East Asian Studies and the University of Leeds
HEFCE/ AHRC/ ESRC
2007-2008 The correspondence between Messiaen and Serge Koussevitzky in the Library of Congress, Washington, and Messiaen papers in the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra archives Prof. Nigel Simeone American Philosophical Society
2007-2008 A student guide to performance ethnography in dance, drama and music Prof. Jonathan Stock with Dr Simone Krüger (Liverpool John Moore’s University) PALATINE
2007-2008 Northumbrian piping and the music of place Dr Andrew Killick BA
2007 Audience experience at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival Dr Stephanie Pitts with Dr Karen Burland (University of Leeds) BA
2006-2007 Professional female voice users' research project Prof. Jane Davidson and Dr Filipa La White Rose Consortium Grant; Post-Doctoral fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology, Portugal
2006 The music of Björk Dr Nicola Dibben AHRC
2005-2009 Daily musical life in Buklavu: an ethnography of music use, heritage and creativity in a Bunun aboriginal community, Taiwan Dr Chiener Chou and Prof. Jonathan Stock AHRC
2005-2008 Early Hispanic music-dramas (villancico, entremes, opera, oratorio): performance practice and unwritten traditions in continuo accompaniment Mr Andrew Lawrence-King AHRC
2005-2008 Performance in transit: cross-disciplinary music theatre centred on George Luis Borges' Library of Babel Dr Dorothy Ker with Kate Allen (artist), Marcus du Sautoy (mathematics) and Carol Brown (choreographer) Gulbenkian Foundation
2005-2006 New Forms of Traditional Music and Musical Theatre in Modern Korea Dr Andrew Killick AHRC
2005 An exploratory survey of music listening in the workplace Dr Nicola Dibben AHRC
2004-2007 Biographical and source studies of Olivier Messiaen and Claire Delbos Prof. Peter Hill and Prof. Nigel Simeone AHRC
2004-2005 International Council for Traditional Music 38th World Conference Prof. Jonathan Stock BA, Arts Council England