PhD student research topics

Alex Barker - atbarker1@sheffield.ac.uk

In search of a musical language: Exploring the Tone Clock as an organising principle for the exploration of chromatic substructures, and their interaction with each other, and other continuities.

Supervisors: Dr Dorothy Ker, Professor Simon Keefe

Research interests

• Chromatic organisation
• Interaction of musical elements
• Musical analysis
• Tone Clock theory

Mario Cáceres - micaceres1@sheffield.ac.uk

The electroacoustic song: Hybridisation of electroacoustic and popular music

Supervisors: Dr Adam Stanovic, Professor Adrian Moore

Research interests

• Electroacoustic and popular music composition
• Genre hybridisation
• Form in electroacoustic and popular music

Lorenzo Prati - lprati1@sheffield.ac.uk

Melting Buildings: reimagining architectural structures as musical systems

Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker, Dr David Buck, Professor Adrian Moore

www.lorenzoprati.com

Research interests

• Music and Architecture
• Sonic Interaction Design
• Sonification
• Installations
• Electroacoustic composition

Thomas Stearn - tfstearn1@sheffield.ac.uk

Exploring word painting in choral music through harmonic exploration: evoking emotion through assimilating music psychology research in composition

Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker, Professor Simon Keefe

Research interests

• Word painting in choral music, from 16th century to present day - it’s progression and forms
• Harmonic treatment and exploration in text settings 
• Embodiment and Prediction in compositional practice

Evelyn Stroobach - estroobach1@sheffield.ac.uk

Holocaust - Remembrance: A multi-movement work for orchestra and SATB chorus

Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker, Professor Adrian Moore

Personal Website

Research interests

• Composing a multi-movement work for orchestra and SATB chorus in response to the holocaust
• Music with a Message: Exploring Antisemitism
• Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors
• Comparing, contrasting and critiquing my composition with other composers who have written orchestral works in response to the holocaust

James Thomas - jthomas6@sheffield.ac.uk

Exploring approaches to temporal multiplicity through a portfolio of instrumental compositions

Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker, Dr Amir Konjani

Research interests

• Exploring the juxtaposition of differing layers of time in compositional structures
• The relationship between musical material and time
• The ways in which rhythm, tempo, resonance, and acoustic space relate to our conception of musical time
• The extensive exploration of limited material

Konstantinos Vlachos - kvlachos1@sheffield.ac.uk

The Use of Space in the Performance of Live Instrumental Music

Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Ker, Professor Adrian Moore

Research interests

• Instrumental and vocal composition
• Spatial Acoustic Music
• Film Music
• Improvisation

Nicola Beazley - nbeazley1@sheffield.ac.uk

Interplays of tradition and acceptance in creative practices in contemporary, professional English folk tunes.

Supervisors: Dr Fay Hield, Dr Andrew Killick

http://nicolabeazley.weebly.com/

Research interests

• Music for English Morris dance; the role of creativity, expression and constructs of 'tradition' in the contemporary English folk scene
• A recital and composition project from the Full English Archive
• Quebec Fiddle Styles

Saydyko Fedorova South - s.f.south@sheffield.ac.uk

The Sakha Khomus (Jew’s Harp) in the Past, Present & Future: Music, Identity and Resurgence

Supervisors: Dr Andrew Killick, Professor Simon Keegan-Phipps

https://udaganuniverse.com

Research interests

• Khomus music in the past, present and in the future
• Identity studies: an exploration of a national identity expressed through/within a musical instrument
• Globalisation: transformation of folk music into pop and the other way around; influence of khomus music
• Indigenous studies
• Sakha music
• Diaspora studies
• Post-Soviet resurgence/revival of spiritual culture in native lands of the Russian Federation: the Republic of Sakha
• Production of a notation system: overton instrument, khomus
• Studies in shamanic practices. North Siberian studies
• Digital ethnography
• Music and beliefs

Helen Gubbins - hgubbins1@sheffield.ac.uk

The mediation of Irish traditional music in Irish public broadcasting radio, 1970-1994

Supervisors: Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps, Dr Andrew Killick

https://www.twitter.com/helengubbins

Research interests

• Radio music broadcasting
• Liveness, gender, and genre in broadcast music
• Mediation and mediatisation of folk and traditional musics
• The relationship(s) between music, language, national and local identity, and public radio
• Broadcast archives
• Performance practices in Irish traditional music

Tim Knowles - tknowles1@sheffield.ac.uk

Participation and Individuality at Sheffield's Public Participatory Music Events

Supervisors: Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps, Dr Andrew Killick

Research interests

• Musical Participation
• Social Theory
• Cosmopolitanism
• Community Music
• Material Culture
• Ethnography

Michael Walsh - mpwalsh1@sheffield.ac.uk

A celtic or national aesthetic? Flute playing in the contemporary Asturian Folk Scene.

Supervisors: Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps, Dr Fay Hield

www.michaelwalshmusic.com

Research interests

• Nationalism and folk music
• The use of the simple system transverse wooden flute in contemporary folk scenes
• Asturian nationalism and identity
• 'Celtic' Identity in the modern world
• Post colonial and post imperialist theory
• Hispanic studies and music
• Irish in Britain

Anqi Wang - awang17@sheffield.ac.uk
 

A Study on Organology: The “Gender Attribution” of the Development and Evolution of Ethnic groups' Jew's Harps in China

Supervisors: Dr Andrew Killick, Dr Fay Hield

https://mypublications.shef.ac.uk/userprofile.html?uid=33325&em=false

Research interests

• Jew’s harp: an embryo of the instruments in the world
• Gender and instruments
• Traditional instruments
• Folk music
• Music community
• Music history

Liz Sheppard - elsheppard1@sheffield.ac.uk

Depictions of Disability in English Folk Song: Reflections of History?

Supervisors: Prof Fay Hield, Prof Tim Shephard

Research Interests

•  English Folk Song
• Song transmission
• Folk song archives
• Marginalised histories
• Disability theory and history
• Intersectionality
• Representations of disability in art & culture

James M Anderson - jmanderson2@sheffield.ac.uk

Music and Manuscript Circulation in Mozart’s Vienna (1780–92): Aspects of Chronology and Commercial Distribution

Supervisors: Professor Simon Keefe, Professor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh

Research interests

• Mozart and contemporaries
• Eighteenth-century music
• Music copyists and commercial distribution
• Manuscript and archival studies
• Style, attribution, and authenticity
• Late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music theory and counterpoint

Oliver Doyle - ojdoyle1@sheffield.ac.uk

Beyond the Courtier: Music and Lifestyle in Italy 1480-1530

Supervisors: Professor Tim Shephard, Dr Erin Maglaque

http://musicaantica.org.uk

Research interests

• Performance Practice 1400-1650
• Issues of gender and performance in 15th century Italy
• Secular song repertory and culture in Italy, 1400-1530
• The operas of Francesco Cavalli

Jiaoyang Ji - jji12@sheffield.ac.uk

China’s Adoption of the West’s Classical Music Tradition: The Receptions of Mozart, 1900-1976

Supervisor: Professor Simon Keefe

Research interests

• Mozart reception in China
• Aesthetics of Music
• Archival studies
• Mozart and contemporaries

Yiyun Liu - yliu187@sheffield.ac.uk

George Frideric Handel and the consciousness of classics musical taste in eighteenth-century England

Supervisors: Professor Simon Keefe, Professor Tim Shephard

Research interests

• English 'ancient music'
• Handel's oratorio
• Western early music

Ciara O'Flaherty - caoflaherty1@sheffield.ac.uk

Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Prose Verse and Narrative

Supervisors: Dr Tim Shephard, Dr Erin Maglaque

Research interests

• Poetry and performance in Renaissance Italy
• Courtesan musicianship in 16th century Italy
• Female musicianship in the late Renaissance and Baroque Eras
• Female Composers in the late Renaissance and Baroque Eras

Xinyi Liang - xliang14@sheffield.ac.uk

Piano Transcriptions of Chinese Traditional Music from the Cultural Revolution Period

Supervisors: Dr Andrew Killick, Professor Simon Keefe

Research interests

• Connection between politics and music
• Traditional Chinese music
• Chinese piano music
• Piano performance

Danqing Wu - dwu27@sheffield.ac.uk

Cello Repertoire and Performance Practice in Modena under Francesco II d’Este

Supervisors: Dr Tim Shephard, Dr Sarah K Watts

Research interests

• Baroque music
• Baroque cello
• Cello performance
• Critical edition
• Performance practice of Baroque music

Are you a singer? Facilitating the use of voice for people with respiratory conditions through singing and choir participation.

Supervisors: Professor Renee Timmers, Dr Michael Bonshor 

Research interests

• Singing and Health
• Music and Wellbeing
• Community Singing Projects
• Singing and Respiratory Health
• Music and Social Bonding

Rory Kirk - rjdkirk1@sheffield.ac.uk

A musical bio-feedback loop to facilitate sleep

Supervisors: Professor Renee Timmers, Professor George Panoutsos, Dr Maan van de Werken

Research interests

• Music and sleep
• Music and health
• Chronobiology
• Physiological responses to music

Marco Morbidelli - mmorbidelli1@sheffield.ac.uk

The experience of authenticity and the integration of skills in the training of the musical theatre performer.

Supervisors: Professor Renee Timmers, Dr Carmen Levick

Research interests

• Singing technique
• Acting through song
• Performing arts training in Higher Education
• Self-expression and self-development
• Social agency and change through theatre practice and training

Kexin Qi - kqi1@sheffield.ac.uk

Uses of visual imagery in music performance

Supervisors: Professor Renee Timmers, Professor Stephanie Pitts

Research interests

• Piano performance expression 
• Music cognition and imagery
• Music communication between pianists and listeners
• Music performance anxiety
• Visual imagery training in music education

Emma Risley - emrisley1@sheffield.ac.uk

Eight shows a week: investigating the psychological and physical impacts of participation in musical theatre

Supervisors: Professor Stephanie Pitts, Professor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh

Research interests

• Musical theatre performance on and under the stage
• Music and wellbeing
• Culture and inequalities
• Rehearsal and performance processes of musical theatre

Thomas Jacob Spurgin - tjspurgin1@sheffield.ac.uk

The 'crisis' in classical music: exploring alternatives in audience development

Supervisors: Professor Stephanie Pitts, Professor Karen Burland, Adam Szabo

Research interests

• Audience studies
• Cultural Policy
• Equality
• Diversity and Representation in Music
• Musician Training; Orchestral Management

Jonathan (Jaytee) Tang - jwltang1@sheffield.ac.uk

The Role of Self-Construal in Affective Experiences with Music

Supervisors: Professor Nicola Dibben, Professor Renee Timmers

Research interests

• Music and cultural identity
• Culture and affective experiences in music
• Music therapy and music as therapy
• Diversity, equity and inclusion in music and music therapy

Persefoni Tzanaki - ptzanaki1@sheffield.ac.uk

Empathy and interpersonal synchronisation as reciprocal processes in interactions between musical novices.

Supervisors: Professor Renee Timmers, Professor Nikki Dibben, Dr Jenni MacRitchie 

Research interests

• Musical interactions in children and adult musical novices
• Socio-psychological factors affecting interpersonal synchronisation
• Interpersonal synchrony and social development in children
• Music and well-being; music-supported therapy

Kate Wareham - kwareham1@sheffield.ac.uk

Music listening and its mediation of social interaction amongst emerging adults in non-traditional environments

Supervisors: Professor Nicola Dibben, Professor Helen Kennedy

www.onanoisycorner.com

Research interests

• Music in everyday life
• Music listening
• Homeless young people
• Emerging adulthood
• Social interaction and identity in music