Dr Jacky Waldock PhD

Faculty Impact Fellow, Deputy Director the Centre for Health Arts Society and Environment Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research

Research Overview

My work is governed by a few interrelated questions: How are sounds perceived and performed differently in communities and according to axes of identity? How is the making of sound a terrain of power and a transformative force? The motivation for my work is best summarised in the title of the BBC Radio Programme that was produced as part collaboration on the Horsfall Project “Taking Art to the People.” (2016). As academics we have the opportunity to do research that can “challenge policy; empower resistances; platform voices; nurturing new critical publics; and envision alternatives.”(Madchen 2019). My methodological work is formed on a basis of co-production, relational, two way forms of collaboration beyond the walls of the academy. My practice is rooted in a co-creation composition methodology that insists on the experiential expertise of those who dwell and traverse the sonic environmental space as an integral part of the artistic process.

Research Grants

AHRC IAA 22-25

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2022 - December 2025