PhD student research topics

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

Research Interests

• The sound was already inside: exploring textility through sonic art installations
• Compositions
• Performances.

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

Research Interests

• Chromatic organisation
• Interaction of musical elements
• Musical analysis
• Tone Clock theory

Mario Caceres - micaceres1@sheffield.ac.uk

The electroacoustic song: Hybridisation of electroacoustic and popular music

Supervisors: Dr Adam Stanovic, Dr Fay Hield

Research Interests

• Electroacoustic and popular music composition.
• Genre hybridisation.
• Form in electroacoustic and popular music.

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

Research Interests

• Music and Architecture,
• Sonic Interaction Design,
• Sonification,
• Installations,
• Electroacoustic composition.

Evelyn Stroobach - estroobach1@sheffield.ac.uk

Holocaust - Remembrance: A multi-movement work for orchestra and SATB chorus

Supervisors:

Professor Dorothy Ker, Professor Adrian Moore

Personal Website

Research Interests

• Composing a multi-movement work for orchestra and SATB chorus in response to the holocaust
• Music with a Message: Exploring Antisemitism
• Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors
• Comparing, contrasting and critiquing my composition with other composers who have written orchestral works in response to the holocaust

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

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

Research Interests

• Exploring the juxtaposition of differing layers of time in compositional structures
• The relationship between musical material and time
• The ways in which rhythm, tempo, resonance, and acoustic space relate to our conception of musical time
• The extensive exploration of limited material

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
 

Research Interests

• Word painting in choral music, from 16th century to present day - it’s progression and forms
• Harmonic treatment and exploration in text settings 
• Embodiment and Prediction in compositional practice

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

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

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

Research Interests:
 

• Jew’s harp: an embryo of the instruments in the world
• Gender and instruments
• Traditional instruments
• Folk music
• Music community
• Music history

Jing Yu - jyu14@sheffield.ac.uk

Inheritance and Development of Traditional Folk Music in Contemporary China

Supervisors: 

Dr. Andrew Killick, Dr. Fay Hield

Research Interests: 

• Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage 
• Traditional Music in contemporary world
• Music industry
• Music heritage management

Ciara O'Flaherty - caoflaherty1@sheffield.ac.uk

Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Prose Verse and Narrative

Supervisors:

Dr Tim Shephard

Research interests:

• Poetry and performance in Renaissance Italy
• Courtesan musicianship in 16th century Italy
• Female musicianship in the late Renaissance and Baroque Eras
• Female Composers in the late Renaissance and Baroque Eras

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 

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

Research interests:

• Mozart and contemporaries
• Eighteenth-century music
• Music copyists and commercial distribution
• Manuscript and archival studies
• Style, attribution, and authenticity
• Late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music theory and counterpoint

Xinyi Liang - xliang14@sheffield.ac.uk

Piano Transcriptions of Chinese Traditional Music from the Cultural Revolution Period

Supervisors:

Dr Andrew Killick

Professor Simon Keefe

Research Interests:

• Connection between politics and music;
• Traditional Chinese music;
• Chinese piano music;
• Piano performance

Danqing 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

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

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

Research Interests

• Singing technique
• Acting through song
• Performing arts training in Higher Education
• Self-expression and self-development
• Social agency and change through theatre practice and training

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.

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

Research Interests

• Musical interaction in children.
•  Socio-psychological factors affecting rhythmic entrainment
• Interpersonal synchrony and social development in children
• Equality, diversity and inclusion in and through music
• Music and wellbeing; music-supported therapy

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 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

Research Interests

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

Jonathan “Jaytee” Tang - jwltang1@sheffield.ac.uk

The Role of Self-Construal in Affective Experiences with Music

Supervisors: 

Professor Nicola Dibben & Professor Renee Timmers
 

Research Interests

• Music and cultural identity
• Culture and affective experiences in music
• Music therapy and music as therapy
• Diversity, equity and inclusion in music and music therapy

Kexin Qi - kqi1@sheffield.ac.uk

Uses of visual imagery in music performance

Supervisors: 

Professor Renee Timmers, Professor Stephanie Pitts
 

Research Interests
 

• Piano performance expression 
• Music cognition and imagery
• Music communication between pianists and listeners
• Music performance anxiety
• Visual imagery training in music education