Music research

Cluster lead: Sean Albiez

The Southampton Solent University Music research cluster draws together the expertise of academic staff who

Staff involved:

  • Sean Albiez
    Patrick Ainsworth
    Dr. Chris Anderton
    Sarah Boak
    Robert Burke
    Toni Diaz
    Dr. Ruth Dockwray
    Phil Durrant
    Dr. Martin James
    Peter Jones
    Lucy O’Brien
    Paul Rutter
    Jon Walls
    Dr. Pete Wilson
    Chris Gibbs
    Sarah Hand
    Julian Konczak
    Nick Long
    Maurice Owen
    Russell Richards
    Derek Rogers
    Paul Shakespeare
    Dr. Chris Barlow
    Dr. Simon Fisk
    Natalia Kulabuchova
    Bernhard Living 

    Contact us:

    Email: sean.albiez@solent.ac.uk 

are experienced researchers and/or creative and industrial practitioners in the broad field of music.

The cluster encompass individual and collaborative projects in the following areas:

  • Creative music technology
  • Histories of popular music
  • Music and Image
  •  Music and media
  • Music festivals and live music
  • Music in performance
  • Music industries
  • Music production analysis
  • Music, identity and representation
  • Popular music in education
  • Sonic/visual arts and experimental musi

This list indicates the breadth of work currently being undertaken by cluster members, some of whom work across several of these areas. The cluster is currently identifying how these fields of research and practice will be focused into a smaller number of inter-disciplinary research groupings.