Current students

Section	Name	Research Interests
Research Student:	Mr James Archer	Adorno Austro-German 'cultural politics' Landscape and identity in the arts Music historiography Theories of musical ‘value’
	Mr Thomas Barker	Aesthetics and critical theory Marxism Music and politics Theories of modernism and postmodernism
	Mr Gary Bayley	Performance
	Ms Lydia Buttigieg	European Music History from the 18th century to the present (with particular emphasis on the First and Second Vienese School) Music Analysis Music and Anthropology Performance Practice Post-Tonalism Sonata Theory
	Miss Elena Catalano	Embodied Cognition in relation to Music and Dance Issues of gender and ethnic identity in Performance Odissi: Indian classical dance
	Mr Joseph Causby	-
	Mr Nikiforos Chrysoloras	Film music Jazz Composition Orchestration
	Mr Jonathan Clinch	British music in the first half of the 20th century Musical analysis Sonata theory Church music Performance practice
	Ms Rachel Darnley-Smith	Music Therapy
	Mr Seamas De-Barra	-
	Mr Marc Estibeiro	-
	Mr Jonathan Firth	Contemporary composition Algorithmic composition Extended instrumental techniques
	Miss Elise Gayraud	-
	Mr John Goodenough	Balance between the subjective and objective currents in musical composition
	Miss Maria Kouvarou	Aesthetics of popular music Sociology of music Music and identity Theories of the global, local, national and transnational Music and language Audiences
	Mr Chad Langford	Cognitive aspects of time perception Music and human evolution the developing time sense of young musicians
	Ms Loucia Lazarou	Female Conductors and the career of conducting/ Gendered Nature of Training Conductors- Gender and Performance Theory Feminist Approaches to Music, Critical Theory Gender and Music (influences by psychological, cultural, religious, political and geographical factors) Geographies of the body (male/female conductors), applied on musicianship and practise
	Mr Julian Lywood-mulcock	Electroacoustic music Laptop music Machine listening Genetic algorithms User interface interaction SuperCollider
	Elisabeth Macneill	Aesthetics Music Analysis
	Mr Ian Maxwell	British Music - especially the period 1850-1950 EJ Moeran and other composers of the English Musical Renaissance Computer-assisted techniques applied to musical analysis - especially stylistic analysis Music-making in the English Universities since 1850 - especially the Chamber Music Clubs of Oxford and Cambridge
	Mrs Egidija Medeksaite	Constructions of musical parameters from the textile patterns Audiovisual performance and mapping Digital sound modeling Electroacoustic music
	Mr Ian Mitchell	-
	Mr Edward Moore	Mahler's early symphonies and their associated programmes The interaction between music and religion/faith The role and function of music in worship
	Mr Peter Ong'are	Music and Reconciliation in Rwanda Hand Played African Drums
	Mr Paolo Pacciolla	Iconography of music Improvised music Indian Music Languages of hand drums Music and devotion Symbolism of music and musical instruments
	Miss Panagiota-styli Paschalidou	Human-Computer-Interaction Music Technology
	Mr John-Bede Pauley	Music and silence Music and theology Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British music (English cathedral tradition)
	Miss Lara Pearson	Embodied Cognition Ethnographic Film Gesture Movement and Music South Indian Music
	Mr Patrick Regan	-
	Mr David Reynolds	-
	Miss Mariam Rezaei	-
	Mr Joseph Schultz	Nationalism in Music Soviet music The music and myth of 'The Five' The music of Debussy and Ravel
	Miss Yinyun Shi	Chinese music Indian music Music identity Diaspora music
	Elise Simoens	Pedagogical project of Henri Pousseur
	Mr Gavin Smith	Use of jazz elements in contemporary composition Serious contemporary composition for brass band
	Mr Joshua Waggener	Music Theology Psalm Settings and Hermeneutics 18th century Aesthetics
	Mr Thomas Wakelam	Cultural representation of non-western music in mass media Folk Percussion in South Korea The Music of Video Games
	Mr Nugunn Wattanapat	The life and works of Sir Hubert Parry Post-Darwinian historiography, moral theology and aesthetics Music theory and education
	Mrs Dawn Weatherston	Music Students and Entrepreneurship
	Mr Sebastian Wedler	European music history from the 18th century to the present (with a primary focus on the First and the Second Viennese Schools, and the New Complexity) Music analysis (set theory in particular) Critical theory (Adorno) Concept of musical time Sonata theory Carl Dahlhaus French post-structuralism (Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze)
	Mr Edward Winkley	Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century British orchestral music The concerto and its development after Beethoven Music of Camille Saint-Saëns
	Mr Luke Woodhouse	The Music of Johannes Brahms The Music of Robert Schumann Music Analysis Late Nineteenth Century British Orchestral and Chamber Music
Taught Postgraduate:	Mr Nick Carlson	Chaos Theory Fractals Fugues of Bach I Ching Microtonal Music
	Mr Mark Carroll	-
	Mr Benjamin Craigs	-
	Mr Michalis Poupazis	Diaspora, Ethnography and musical heritage Poetry, music and cultural negotiations of 20th Century's Greec pop music Popular music culture and identity
	Mr Mark Ridley	-
	Mr Eric Rothbard	Music in sport Romantic Era Music Wind Ensemble music
	Mr Anthony Satterthwaite	Renaissance and baroque music Russian music such as Tchaikovsky The aesthetics of music The history of music The music of Beethoven The music of Vaughan Williams The various musical cultures of different countries
	Mr Andrew Stanley	The concept of "audience" manipulation in Elizabethan culture The influence of writers upon composers of the Soviet Union The relationship between literature and music during the First World War period
	Miss Alexandra Wade	British music Early 20th Century Music Jazz and popular music