PhD News

July 2024, Sascha Buchanan received her PhD at the graduation ceremony for her research on Fandom, Pop Music and the Reproduction of Race-Gender Inequalities. Sascha’s PhD was funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership and jointly supervised by MaSS/CIGS researchers Katie Milestone and Christian Klesse.

Katie Chatburn (PGR) presented her paper ‘Engaging under-represented groups in soundscape evaluation through creative, embodied listening practices’ at the Inter-Noise International Conference in Nantes in August 2024. Katie also attended Musicians Without Borders training which supports musicians everywhere to use the power of music to create positive change in their communities, bringing music to people and places affected by war, armed conflict, and displacement

In June 2024  Markus Hetheier (PGR) shared creative findings from the British Council funded Spotlight on Culture artistic and cultural exchange with Grenoble, France. The aim of the event was to inspire artists, academics and other creative workers to create new structures for their work beyond borders. The event began with a sonic intervention: attendees listened to a soundscape composition which artistically responded to the project and drew a soundmap based on their experiences of the UK and France. This was followed by a panel with EU artists living in the UK on the roles of such cultural exchanges in the post-Brexit era.