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While homed in the University’s Department of Music, the Institute for Popular Music supports and is supported by affiliated researchers and Visiting Honorary Research Fellows from a wide range of subject areas and academic disciplines.

The IPM Has three main aims:  

  1. To be the world’s leading centre for popular music research
  2. To engage in and foster interdisciplinary research on popular music and its various musical, social, technical and economic aspects
  3. To undertake and support research that explores the potential of popular music for social, cultural and economic development, and public benefit

The IPM is led by a Working Group, chaired by IPM Director, Mat Flynn, with the research centre’s operation supported by IPM Administrative Assistant and Dave Laing PhD Scholarship student Grace Goodwin.

There are nearly two hundred IPM alumni many of whom stay connected to our activities through our Linked In page. 

A separate IPM Archive Stakeholder Group is chaired by the Head of Music Professor Lisa Colton, with assistance from the IPM Archivist Louise Bruton and the IPM Director.

There are nearly two hundred IPM alumni many of whom stay connected to our activities through our Linked In page

  • Current staff that collaborate and contribute to the key aims and objectives of the IPM.

  • Associated members

    University of Liverpool staff from other subject disciplines with a research interest in popular music.

  • Honorary members

    Researchers from outside the institution.

  • Alumni

    Previous affiliated, associated or honorary members of the IPM.

  • Current postgraduate research students studying subjects associated to the IPM.

  • Visiting researchers