Centre for Music Education and Social Justice

Our people

Learn about our team and their expertise.

Dr Amy Williamson PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Medieval English polyphony
  • Music and EDI (more specifically, Music and Class in HE and Music and Disability)
  • Gender and sexuality in popular music
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Professor Andrew Pinnock

Professor

Research interests

  • Arts management and cultural policy; cultural economics
  • Seventeenth-century English opera
  • Aspects of organology, especially the early twentieth-century English recorder revival.
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Dr Benjamin Oliver

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Composition (Instrumental and Electronic)
  • Conducting Research
  • Sonification

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Chiying Lam BEd, MA, PhD, FRSPH

Lecturer in Community Music and Scl Jstc

Research interests

  • Post-colonial discourses of power & identity within the music practitioners' community
  • Musicians' pedagogical practice
  • Music education research methods

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Dan Mar-Molinero

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Dr David Bretherton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Queer Music Theory
  • 19th-Century European Art Song
  • Theories of European Common-Practice Harmony
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Dr Erin Johnson-Williams

Lecturer Music Educ and Social Justice

Research interests

  • Decolonisation
  • Imperial legacies of music education
  • Trauma studies

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Helen Dromey

Principal Teaching Fellow

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Dr Hettie Malcomson

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Anthropology and sociology of music
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Analysing social inequalities through the ethnographic study of music
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Dr Kwame Phillips

Senior Lecturer in Media Practices

Research interests

  • Sensory Media Production
  • Multimodal and Experimental Methodologies
  • Race and Social Justice

Accepting applications from PhD students

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