Research projects

Our most recent and ongoing externally funded research projects include:

DateProject Title & DescriptionGrant holder(s)Funder(s)
2009-2010The influence of emotional responses on attention and expectation in music perceptionRenee TimmersBA
2007-2012White Rose East Asia Centre: East Asian identities and cultures clusterProf. Jonathan Stock (with staff from the School of East Asian Studies and the University of Leeds)HEFCE/ AHRC/ ESRC
2007-2008The 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 SimeoneAmerican Philosophical Society
2007-2008A student guide to performance ethnography in dance, drama and musicProf. Jonathan Stock with Dr Simone Krüger (Liverpool John Moore’s University)PALATINE
2007-2008Northumbrian piping and the music of placeDr Andrew KillickBA
2007Audience experience at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival Dr Stephanie Pitts with Dr Karen Burland (University of Leeds)BA
2006-2007Professional female voice users' research projectProf. Jane Davidson and Dr Filipa LaWhite Rose Consortium Grant; Post-Doctoral fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology, Portugal
2006The music of BjörkDr Nicola Dibben AHRC
2005-2009Daily 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
2005-2008Early Hispanic music-dramas (villancico, entremes, opera, oratorio): performance practice and unwritten traditions in continuo accompanimentMr Andrew Lawrence-KingAHRC
2005-2008Performance in transit: cross-disciplinary music theatre centred on George Luis Borges' Library of BabelDr Dorothy Ker with Kate Allen (artist), Marcus du Sautoy (mathematics) and Carol Brown (choreographer)Gulbenkian Foundation
2005-2006New Forms of Traditional Music and Musical Theatre in Modern Korea Dr Andrew KillickAHRC
2005An exploratory survey of music listening in the workplaceDr Nicola DibbenAHRC
2004-2007Biographical and source studies of Olivier Messiaen and Claire DelbosProf. Peter Hill and Prof. Nigel SimeoneAHRC
2004-2005International Council for Traditional Music 38th World ConferenceProf. Jonathan StockBA, Arts Council England