• I’m a Lecturer in Music Education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire and I was Head of Higher Education and Research at Sage Gateshead from 2010-19.

• My research focuses on group singing, music health and wellbeing, musician training and Community Music, as well as pioneering the use of ‘distributed ethnography’ as a method for research into cultural phenomena.

• My philosophy suggests that music is about the performance of ‘relationships’ as much as it is the performance of ‘works’, and that the implicit tensions within these contrasting perspectives can be resolved through a foregrounding of their ‘paramusical’ benefits and effects.

• I believe that musical entrainment (e.g. rhythm and harmony) and interpersonal neurobiological ‘resonance’ are sympathetically entangled, and that people experience this entanglement in ways which support wellbeing.

Bear with me… I haven’t updated these pages for a while so am in the process of doing so. Life and work has got in the way of keeping everything up-to-date, but normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. I need an assistant…

On this website, you can find:

Current Research

Current projects, new ideas, projects in development, including Fellowship of Hill and Wind and Sunshine, Making Sense of Group Singing, and SINGS-VR...

Publications

Journal articles, book chapters, reports and other publications I've authored or co-authored...

Presentations

A series of Prezis to accompany lectures, speeches and presentations.

Here’s a Padlet summary of my published outputs - I’m still updating it, but it will eventually have hyperlinks to everything///

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