Research
Research interests
- Screen music and sound design
- Composition
- Music technology
- Popular music
Publications
Biography
Miguel Mera is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton. Prior to that he served in a number of leadership roles including as Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences and Vice-President (Research) at City, University of London.
Miguel is a Professor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image and is a composer of screen music and a musicologist. His film and television music has been widely screened around the world. The film Little Ashes won the Schermi d'Amore Rose - Audience Prize for best film at the Verona Film festival. He is the author of European Film Music, Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm, and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound. He serves on the editorial boards of Music and the Moving Image, Music Sound and the Moving Image, The Journal of Film Music, The Soundtrack, and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Miguel has twice served on the REF Panel, is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, the UKRI Talent Panel College, and voting member of BAFTA.