I am a musicologist and media composer based at the University of Leeds. I hold the positions of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Teaching Fellow in Film Music in the School of Music.
My research and teaching explores music in the contemporary media industries. I hold particular interests in television and streaming, library (or ‘production’ music), screen-music production processes, and media composition. My research publications include peer-reviewed journal articles in Music and the Moving Image, Critical Studies in Television, and the European Journal of American Culture. My article “Soundtracking the City Break: Library Music in Travel Television” won the 2023 BAFTSS Publication Award for Best Essay by a Doctoral Student.
I am active within the TV industry as a media composer: my music has recently featured in the Emmy Award-winning series United Shades of America (CNN), the Grierson Award-nominated documentary Subnormal: A British Scandal (BBC One) and an international advertising campaign for Honey. I am a composer-member of BAFTA as part of their Connect scheme.
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Projects
I co-edited a special issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image on the topic of ‘library music in digital media’. This project develops work from an online study day I co-organised in 2022 (supported by the Royal Musical Association). I contributed a co-authored introduction to this special issue, as well as an interview with composer Paul Mottram.