PhD student research topics
Our PhD students are part of a thriving research community, participating in seminars and workshops to support their research and developing advanced, transferable skills. These attributes help our graduates succeed both within and beyond the course.
Music Technology and Composition
Rees Archibald - RDArchibald1@sheffield.ac.uk The sound was already inside: exploring textility through sonic art installations, compositions, and performances Supervisors: Dr Adrian Moore reesarchibald.com |
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Alex Barker - atbarker1@sheffield.ac.uk In search of a musical language: Exploring the Tone Clock as an organising principle for the exploration of chromatic substructures, and their interaction with each other, and other continuities. Supervisors: Dr Dorothy Ker, Professor Simon Keefe |
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Mario Caceres - micaceres1@sheffield.ac.uk The electroacoustic song: Hybridisation of electroacoustic and popular music Supervisors: Dr Adam Stanovic, Dr Fay Hield |
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Lorenzo Prati - lprati1@sheffield.ac.uk Melting Buildings: reimagining architectural structures as musical systems Supervisors Dr Adam Stanovic, Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson, Dr Adrian Moore www.lorenzoprati.com |
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Evelyn Stroobach - estroobach1@sheffield.ac.uk Holocaust - Remembrance: A multi-movement work for orchestra and SATB chorus Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker, Professor Adrian Moore |
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Konstantinos Vlachos - kvlachos1@sheffield.ac.uk The Use of Space in the Performance of Live Instrumental Music Supervisors: |
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James Thomas - jthomas6@sheffield.ac.uk Exploring approaches to temporal multiplicity through a portfolio of instrumental compositions Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker and Dr Amir Konjani |
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Thomas Stearn - tfstearn1@sheffield.ac.uk Exploring word painting in choral music through harmonic exploration: evoking emotion through assimilating music psychology research in composition Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker and Professor Renee Timmers |
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Ethnomusicology
Nicola Beazley - nbeazley1@sheffield.ac.uk Interplays of tradition and acceptance in creative practices in contemporary, professional English folk tunes. Supervisors: |
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Helen Gubbins - hgubbins1@sheffield.ac.uk The mediation of Irish traditional music in Irish public broadcasting radio, 1970-1994 Supervisors: |
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Tim Knowles - tknowles1@sheffield.ac.uk Participation and Individuality at Sheffield's Public Participatory Music Events Supervisors: |
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Michael Walsh - mpwalsh1@sheffield.ac.uk A celtic or national aesthetic? Flute playing in the contemporary Asturian Folk Scene. Supervisors: |
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Anqi Wang - awang17@sheffield.ac.uk A Study on Organology: The “Gender Attribution” of the Development and Evolution of Ethnic groups' Jew's Harps in China Supervisors: Dr Andrew Killick, Dr Fay Hield https://mypublications.shef.ac.uk/userprofile.html?uid=33325&em=false |
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Jing Yu - jyu14@sheffield.ac.uk Inheritance and Development of Traditional Folk Music in Contemporary China Supervisors: Dr. Andrew Killick, Dr. Fay Hield |
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Musicology
Ciara O'Flaherty - caoflaherty1@sheffield.ac.uk Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Prose Verse and Narrative Supervisors: Dr Tim Shephard |
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Joshua Goodman - jdrgoodman1@sheffield.ac.uk Lerner and Loewe's Gigi: sources, performance and context Supervisor: |
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Kathryn Jayasuriya - kdmjayasuriya1@sheffield.ac.uk Lerner and Loewe's Camelot: A Critical Edition Supervisor: |
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Yiyun Liu - yliu187@sheffield.ac.uk George Frideric Handel and the consciousness of classics musical taste in eighteenth-century England Supervisor: |
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Elsa Marshall - emmarshall1@sheffield.ac.uk The Business and Craft of Cinematic Integration in the Production of MGM's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Supervisor: |
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James M Anderson - jmanderson2@sheffield.ac.uk Music and Manuscript Circulation in Mozart’s Vienna (1780–92): Aspects of Chronology and Commercial Distribution Supervisor: Professor Simon Keefe |
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Performance
Xinyi Liang - xliang14@sheffield.ac.uk Piano Transcriptions of Chinese Traditional Music from the Cultural Revolution Period Supervisors: Dr Andrew Killick Professor Simon Keefe |
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Danqing Wu - dwu27@sheffield.ac.uk Cello Repertoire and Performance Practice in Modena under Francesco II d’Este Supervisors: Dr Tim Shephard |
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Psychology of Music
Caroline Curwen - ccurwen1@sheffield.ac.uk Music-colour synaesthesia: a conceptual correspondence? Supervisor: |
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Jacob Downs - jkdowns1@sheffield.ac.uk Embodiment, spatiality, and relationality in headphone listening Supervisors: |
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Elizabeth MacGregor - ehmacgregor1@sheffield.ac.uk Musical vulnerability: pupils' experiences of Key Stage 3 classroom music education and a pedagogy of care Supervisors Professor Stephanie Pitts Dr Andrew Killick |
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Marco Morbidelli - mmorbidelli1@sheffield.ac.uk The experience of authenticity and the integration of skills in the training of the musical theatre performer. Supervisors Prof Renee Timmer Dr Carmen Levick |
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Ryan Taylor - rtaylor17@sheffield.ac.uk The Role of Music Within The Context of Science Communication Supervisors: |
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Persefoni Tzanaki - ptzanaki1@sheffield.ac.uk I feel your rhythm: Empathy and rhythmic entrainment as a reciprocal process in children’s musical interaction and social development. Supervisors: Professor Renee Timmers, Professor Nikki Dibben |
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Kate Wareham - kwareham1@sheffield.ac.uk Music listening and its mediation of social interaction amongst emerging adults in non-traditional environments Supervisors: |
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Thomas Jacob Spurgin - tjspurgin1@sheffield.ac.uk The 'crisis' in classical music: exploring alternatives in audience development Supervisors: Prof. Stephanie Pitts, Prof. Karen Burland, Adam Szabo |
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Jonathan “Jaytee” Tang - jwltang1@sheffield.ac.uk The Role of Self-Construal in Affective Experiences with Music Supervisors: Professor Nicola Dibben & Professor Renee Timmers |
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Kexin Qi - kqi1@sheffield.ac.uk Uses of visual imagery in music performance Supervisors: Professor Renee Timmers, Professor Stephanie Pitts |
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