I was interviewed on BBC Radio Jersey about my work composing and researching media music. We discussed how I got into the industry, the process of composing for TV, and the impact of music in TV and film.
My article “‘How the Music was Made’: Television, Musicology and BBC Four” was featured in the latest "New Research" section of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Fall 2023), on the topic of “Television Industries”. The article was originally published in Critical Studies in Television (2022).
I’m really pleased to have joined the School of Music at the University of Leeds as a Teaching Fellow in Film Music, alongside my Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
My article “Soundtracking the City Break: Library Music in Travel Television” (Music and the Moving Image) recently won the BAFTSS Publication Award for Best Essay by a Doctoral Student. Click this link to read the judges’ comments and see the other winners.
I have been appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at the University of Leeds. During this Fellowship I will be developing personal research projects (monograph proposal, grant applications etc.) and contributing to the wider research culture of the Institute.
A paper presented at the conference “Anonymity, Un-Originality, Collectivity – Contested Modes of Authorship”, hosted by the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick.
Co-convened conference panel with Melissa Morton and Bernadette Pace (both University of Edinburgh). My paper was entitled “Compartmentalised Collaboration? Library Music in Factual Television Production”.
I was interviewed on BBC Radio Jersey about my work composing and researching media music. We discussed how I got into the industry, the process of composing for TV, and the impact of music in TV and film.