You will join a vibrant and supportive research team that scored highly in REF2021, being ranked joint 5th in Music for research in UK Universities in terms of GPA. Huddersfield was also ranked 20th in the QS World University Rankings for Music 2024. Popular Music Studies in Huddersfield is well established as a field with research active staff, postgraduate students, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, industrial and international partnerships focused on popular music. You will join the welcoming research environment of the Popular Music Studies Research Group.
You will contribute to a Leverhulme funded research project entitled ‘The Amplification Project’ that will explore the role of the amplifier and associated technologies – especially loudspeakers and microphones – in musical practice, listener experience, and social and cultural life, working closely with the University’s Leverhulme International Professor of Popular Music Steve Waksman.