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I am a Teaching Associate in Performance, PhD researcher, and practising musician. I teach on undergraduate modules relating to performance, ethnomusicology, and popular and traditional musics; and lecture on the ‘Foundations of Music’ module, run in association with the university’s Department of Lifelong Learning.

My doctoral research project, begun in 2015, is an ethnographic study of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s public participatory music events (including open mics, folk sessions, and jazz jam sessions), and I am especially interested in how this form of music-making intersects with existing models of social theory and musical participation.

Following the completion of my undergraduate degree in Music and English Literature at the University of Glasgow (2006-10), I spent two years working as a guitar teacher in Northumberland, engaged in intensive jazz practice. I came to the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ in 2012 to complete the MA in Ethnomusicology, writing my dissertation on improvisation in the contemporary English folk scene. I worked as an instrumental tutor at a ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ-based music school from 2014-19, during which time I taught approximately ten thousand one-to-one and group lessons to several hundred different students of diverse ages and abilities. I regularly perform with various ensembles including 'Beyond Albedo', and 'Genevieve Carver and The Unsung'.