PhD Student Research Topics

Chris Bevan - cjbevan1@sheffield.ac.uk

Electroacoustic Composition

Supervisors: 
Dr. Adam Stanović
Professor Adrian Moore

https://chrisbevan.weebly.com

Research Interests

• Defining the 'compositional voice' - why do we make the creative decisions that we do?
• Pitch, pulse and phrasing in electroacoustic music
• Genre hybridity and escaping the expectations of the school

Konstantinos Vlachos - kvlachos1@sheffield.ac.uk

The Use of Space in the Performance of Live Instrumental Music

Supervisors: 
Professor Dorothy Ker, Professor Adrian Moore

Research Interests

• Instrumental and vocal composition
• Spatial Acoustic Music
• Film Music
• Improvisation

Nicola Beazley - nbeazley1@sheffield.ac.uk

Interplays of tradition and acceptance in creative practices in contemporary, professional English folk tunes.

Supervisors: 
Dr Fay Hield
Dr Andrew Killick

http://nicolabeazley.weebly.com/

Research Interests

• Music for English Morris dance; the role of creativity, expression and constructs of 'tradition' in the contemporary English folk scene
• A recital and composition project from the Full English Archive
• Quebec Fiddle Styles

Xiao Gao - xgao14@sheffield.ac.uk

Musical Culture of the Chinese Diaspora in Indonesia

Supervisors: 
Dr Andrew Killick
Dr Fay Hield 

https://sheffield.academia.edu/XiaoGao

Research Interests

• Musical culture of the Chinese diaspora in Indonesia
• Indonesian traditional music
• Overseas Chinese music in Southeast Asia
• Traditional ritual music in China
• World music history

Helen Gubbins - hgubbins1@sheffield.ac.uk

The mediation of Irish traditional music in Irish public broadcasting radio, 1970-1994

Supervisors: 
Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps
Dr Andrew Killick

https://www.twitter.com/helengubbins

Research Interests

• Radio music broadcasting
• Liveness, gender, and genre in broadcast music
• Mediation and mediatisation of folk and traditional musics
• The relationship(s) between music, language, national and local identity, and public radio
• Broadcast archives
• Performance practices in Irish traditional music

Tim Knowles - tknowles1@sheffield.ac.uk

Participation and Individuality at Sheffield's Public Participatory Music Events

Supervisors: 
Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps
Dr Andrew Killick

Research Interests

• Musical Participation
• Social Theory
• Cosmopolitanism
• Community Music
• Material Culture
• Ethnography

Michael Walsh - mpwalsh1@sheffield.ac.uk

A celtic or national aesthetic? Flute playing in the contemporary Asturian Folk Scene.

Supervisors: 
Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps
Dr Fay Hield 
www.michaelwalshmusic.com

Research Interests

• Nationalism and folk music
• The use of the simple system transverse wooden flute in contemporary folk scenes
• Asturian nationalism and identity
• 'Celtic' Identity in the modern world
• Post colonial and post imperialist theory
• Hispanic studies and music
• Irish in Britain

Joshua Goodman - jdrgoodman1@sheffield.ac.uk

Lerner and Loewe's Gigi: sources, performance and context

Supervisor: 
Dr Dominic McHugh

https://joshuacomposes.wordpress.com/

Research Interests

• The Broadway musicals of Lerner and Loewe
• Issues of adaptation in musicals
• Sources, scores, scripts: editing and engraving scholarly and performance editions of musicals
• Broadway orchestrators and orchestrations
• Hollywood on Broadway
• Arthur Freed - his unit, musicals and collaborators

Kathryn Jayasuriya - kdmjayasuriya1@sheffield.ac.uk

Lerner and Loewe's Camelot: A Critical Edition

Supervisor: 
Dr Dominic McHugh

Research Interests

• Broadway and the Hollywood Musical
• Critical Editing of Musicals

Yiyun Liu - yliu187@sheffield.ac.uk

George Frideric Handel and the consciousness of classics musical taste in eighteenth-century England

Supervisor: 
Professor Simon Keefe

Research Interests

• English 'ancient music'
• Handel's oratorio
• Western early music

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: 
Prof. Nicola Dibben and Prof. Jonathan Rayner

https://sheffield.academia.edu/ElsaMarshall

Research Interests

• Film musicals, history and analysis
• Music and storytelling in popular music albums and film
• Musical exhibition practices of silent films 
• Archival research
• Digital humanities 

Danquing Wu - dwu27@sheffield.ac.uk

Cello Repertoire and Performance Practice in Modena under Francesco II d’Este

Supervisors:

Dr Tim Shephard

Research Interests 

• Baroque music,
• Baroque cello,
• Cello performance,
• Critical edition,
• Performance practice of Baroque music

Caroline Curwen - ccurwen1@sheffield.ac.uk

Music-colour synaesthesia: a conceptual correspondence?

Supervisor: 
Dr Renee Timmers
Dr Andrea Schiavio

Research Interests

• Music-Colour Synaesthesia illustrates that synaesthesia may not be a purely perceptual phenomenon
• The role of concept and meaning challenges a single mechanism as an explanation for synaesthesia
• Music-Colour synaesthesia presents a challenge to the established philosophical theories

Jacob Downs - jkdowns1@sheffield.ac.uk

Embodiment, spatiality, and relationality in headphone listening

Supervisors:
Professor Nicola Dibben
Dr Annamaria Carusi

www.jakedowns.co.uk

Research Interests

• Mobile sound technologies and their impact on listening
• Relationships between sonic experience, corporeality, and spatiality
• Human-technology relations and philosophy of technology
• Sensory experience in situations of conflict and violence
• Interdisciplinarity and new methodologies

Michaela Korte - mkorte1@sheffield.ac.uk

Investigating mental health in music and non-music students in regards to personalised prevention strategies

Supervisors:
Dr Victoria Williamson
Dr Renee Timmers

Research Interests

• Investigate levels of depression using key variables from the multifactorial depression model to highlight different ways how mental health and wellbeing is processed and/or achieved.
• Look into prevention strategies and how they are already implemented and/or could be improved

Shen Li - sli37@sheffield.ac.uk

Conceptions of piano timbre in piano performance and pedagogy

Supervisors:
Dr Renee Timmers

http://sheffield.academia.edu/ShenLi

Research Interests

• Piano performance
• Embodied music perception
• Piano teaching
• Music communication
• Music gesture

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

Research Interests

• Classroom music education in the United Kingdom;
• Equality, diversity, and inclusion in music learning from primary to tertiary education;
• Vulnerability studies, the ethics of care, and linguistic and musical vulnerabilities;
• Praxial philosophy and critical pedagogy; Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches to educational research

Ryan Taylor - rtaylor17@sheffield.ac.uk

The Role of Music Within The Context of Science Communication

Supervisors:
Professor Nicola Dibben
Dr Dorothy Ker
Professor Duncan Cameron

https://www.ryantaylorlive.com

Research Interests

• Methodology for composers to create space for dialogue within the context of science communication.
• Quantifying emotional impact of music.
• Interdisciplinary collaborations to support narratives of sustainability and environmentalism.
• Improvised music to moving image.

Kate Wareham - kwareham1@sheffield.ac.uk

Music listening and its mediation of social interaction amongst emerging adults in non-traditional environments

Supervisors:
Professor Nicola Dibben
Professor Helen Kennedy
www.onanoisycorner.com

Research Interests

• Music in everyday life
• Music listening
• Homeless young people
• Emerging adulthood
• Social interaction and identity in music

Thomas Jacbob Spurgin - tjspurgin1@sheffield.ac.uk

The 'crisis' in classical music: exploring alternatives in audience development

Supervisors:

Prof. Stephanie Pitts, Prof. Karen Burland, Adam Szabo

Research Interests

• Audience studies;
• Cultural Policy;
• Equality,
• Diversity and Representation in Music;
• Musician Training; Orchestral Management