People
Researchers
Sara Cohen
Sara Cohen is a Professor of Music specialising in research on popular music and with interests in place, heritage, memory and ageing.
Catherine Tackley
Professor Catherine Tackley is Head of the Department of Music and argues for the study of jazz as popular music. Her books include Black British Jazz Routes, Ownership and Performance (2016) and Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (2012).
Kenneth Forkert-Smith
Kenneth Forkert-Smith is a Professor in Music Theory and Analysis, and has interests in popular music analysis, with publications on Modest Mouse and Suede.
Giles Hooper
Giles Hooper is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology specialising in research on popular music, and with interests in critical theory, aesthetics and philosophy.
David Horn
David Horn (Senior Fellow) is co-editor of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. He was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of The International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Freya Jarman
Freya Jarman is a Reader in Critical Musicology. Her research on popular music explores voice and vocality, especially through the critical lenses of queer theory and psychoanalytic theory.
Mike Jones
Mikes Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Music Industries, with research interests in the joint working that takes place between musicians and music companies.
Rob Kronenburg
Rob Kronenburg is Roscoe Professor of Architecture, with interests and expertise in architecture and popular music performance space.
Marion Leonard
Marion Leonard is a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music Studies specialising in research on gender, creative labour and the music industries, and music and museum practice.
Lennon Mhishi
Dr Lennon Mhishi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Politics. His doctoral work in anthropology (SOAS, University of London) explored the migrant and diasporic experiences of music, identity and belonging amongst Zimbabweans in London, whilst foregrounding these experiences as part of the genealogy of African and Black presence and expressive culture in Britain. He is currently part of a project, led by Professor Alex Balch, exploring how the arts and humanities can be utilised in tackling contemporary forms of slavery in various African countries.
Les Roberts
Les Roberts is a Reader in Cultural and Media Studies, and his research on popular music explores the intersection between space, place, mobility and memory.
Lisa Shaw
Lisa Shaw is a Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, with interests and expertise in Brazilian popular music and the use of popular song in Brazilian and Portuguese popular cinema.
Simran Singh
Dr Simran Singh is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. Her current research explores music, boxing and place; specialised expertise includes hip-hop, branding and performativity in relation to neoliberalism.
Rob Strachan
Rob Strachan is a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music studies, with research interests in DIY cultures, electronic music and creativity, the history of British black music and audiovisual media.
Holly Tessler
Holly Tessler is a Lecturer in Music Industries, with research interests in the Beatles, music industries, music industries as creative industries, Garage Rock/Medway Sound, music branding, cultural branding, interactive audio, popular music culture and popular music history.
Haekyung Um
Haekyung Um is a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, with research interests that include K-Pop, Korean hip hop and Korean music reality TV shows.
Jacqueline Waldock
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.
Richard Worth
Richard Worth is a Lecturer in music and popular music: composition, orchestration, analysis and popular music history at the University of Liverpool. He is also a flute player, composer and arranger.