Affiliated members

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

Anna Glew Anna.Glew@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	My post-doctoral research examines how popular music in Ukraine narrates the Russia-Ukraine war after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, and focuses on such topics as historical narratives, cultural resources and coping, narratives of Ukraine as a political entity, language and post-coloniality, mental maps, and trauma.
Catherine Tackley catherine.tackley@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Catherine Tackley is a Professor of Music. She works on jazz and popular music, especially in Britain.
Freya Jarman F.Jarman@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Freya Jarman is a reader in music. Their research on popular music explores voice and vocality, especially through the critical lenses of queer theory and psychoanalytic theory.
Haekyung Um hkum@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Haekyung Um is a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, with research interests that include K-Pop, Korean hip hop and Korean music reality TV shows.
Holly Tessler Holly.Tessler@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Holly Tessler is Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Programme Leader for MA The Beatles, Heritage and Culture, the first fully online MA within the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are the Beatles, music industries, music industries as creative industries, Garage Rock and the Medway Sound, music branding, cultural branding, popular music culture and history.
Jackie Waldock Jacqueline.Waldock@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Jacqueline Waldock is a Research Fellow in the Department of Music and specialises in sonic studies. Her research explores how sound is understood and perceived as a terrain of power and a transformative force.
Jonathan Crossley Jonathan.Crossley@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	British/South African guitarist, improviser and composer Jonathan Crossley plays in the ephemeral boundaries between styles and genres and was described as “the poster boy for modern guitar” by Guitar Moderne. Trained first as a classical guitarist, then later in jazz, free improvisation, and research into hyper-instruments, his musical outputs are carefully curated but stylistically diverse.
Kenneth Fokert-Smith kmsmith@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Kenneth has worked at Liverpool since 2011 and has published essays in music journals on twentieth century music theory and analysis in both classical and popular repertoires, and has edited two books - The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis and Demystifying Scriabin. Current and future projects include: a book on the operas of Franz Schreker (co-authored with Dr Annika Forkert; contracted to Boydell, 2030), and a book project on Self-Organizing Musical Forms.
Lisa Shaw lisas66@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Lisa Shaw is Professor of Brazilian Studies, with interests and expertise in Brazilian popular music and how music can foster a sense of community and wellbeing, and be a focus for inter-generational and inter-community engagement and understanding.
Louise Bruton Louise.Bruton@liverpool.ac.uk	Louise Bruton is an IPM archivist and curator.
Marion Leonard marionl@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Marion Leonard is Reader and Director of Research in the Department of Music. She has published broadly in the field of popular music studies with particular research interest in heritage and gender. She is author of Gender in the Music Industry (Ashgate, 2007) and co-author of Understanding Popular Music Culture (Routledge, forthcoming).
Mat Flynn matf73@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Mathew Flynn is a Professor of Music Industries and the Director of the Institute of Popular Music, Co-Director of MusicFutures and a member of the Liverpool City Region Music Board. His research explores decision-making and place-making in the music industries.
Mike Jones eben@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Mike Jones is a senior lecturer in Music Industries with research interests in the joint working that takes place between musicians and music companies.
Rachel Drury R.L.Drury2@liverpool.ac.uk	Rachel Drury is a University Teacher in Music.
Richard Anderson Richard.Anderson@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Richard Anderson is a post doctoral researcher & innovation associate at Music Futures.
Richard Worth rworth@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	His research interests centre around the intersections between music analysis and the 'everything else' context of a piece of music.
Rob Strachan bigmice@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Robert Strachan is a senior lecturer in popular music studies. He has published numerous articles on a variety of aspects of popular music culture including digital music cultures, the history of British black music and music and audiovisual media (such as music video and documentary). He is the author of Sonic Technologies: Popular Music, Digital Culture and the Creative Process(Bloomsbury 2017) and co-author of the core textbook Understanding Popular Music Culture (Routledge 2026).
Sara Cohen sara@liverpool.ac.uk Staff profile	Sara Cohen is a Professor of Music specialising in research on popular music and with interests in heritage, memory, migration and ageing’