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.

I was invited to give a talk at the University of Huddersfield for their Music and Music Technology research-seminar series. My presentation covered some of my recent work on music in ‘peak’ TV and was supported by the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) as part of their New Connections scheme.

I'm pleased to have been awarded my Fellowship of AdvanceHE (FHEA), in recognition of my student-education practice at Leeds.

A new peer-reviewed journal article in Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, as part of a special issue on Disney at 100.

A presentation at the Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age conference (University of Music and Theatre Munich), based on my upcoming chapter for the Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV.

A new peer-reviewed journal article in Media, Culture & Society, co-authored with Dr Júlia Durand (NOVA University, Lisbon).

A co-authored paper with Dr Ian Sapiro, presented by Sapiro at the Music and the Moving Image conference (NYU). This paper is based on material from a forthcoming chapter for a Bloomsbury edited volume.

I was interviewed on BBC Radio Jersey about my work composing and researching media music. We discussed how I got into the industry, the process of composing for TV, and the impact of music in TV and film.

My article “‘How the Music was Made’: Television, Musicology and BBC Four” was featured in the latest "New Research" section of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Fall 2023), on the topic of “Television Industries”. The article was originally published in Critical Studies in Television (2022).

I’m really pleased to have joined the School of Music at the University of Leeds as a Teaching Fellow in Film Music, alongside my Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

A co-authored paper with Dr Júlia Durand, presented at the Sound on Screen II conference (Oxford Brookes).

I contributed a chapter to the new Routledge edited collection, True Crime in American Media, edited by George S. Larke-Walsh.

A co-authored paper with Dr Júlia Durand, presented by Durand at the Music and the Moving Image conference (NYU).

An invited talk to the 2022 cohort of the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH), reflecting on some of my PhD experiences.

My article “Soundtracking the City Break: Library Music in Travel Television” (Music and the Moving Image) recently won the BAFTSS Publication Award for Best Essay by a Doctoral Student. Click this link to read the judges’ comments and see the other winners.

I have been appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at the University of Leeds. During this Fellowship I will be developing personal research projects (monograph proposal, grant applications etc.) and contributing to the wider research culture of the Institute.

A guest lecture on library music for the Masters course “Analytic Methods for Music and Media”.

This month I am working as Visiting Lecturer for the library-music component of this module in the School of Music at Leeds.

My AHRC-funded PhD was awarded in December 2022 with Recommendation of Research Excellence.

I have been accepted as a member of BAFTA, as part of their inaugural Connect scheme.

15-16th September 2022

An article published in the journal Critical Studies in Television, as part of a special dossier on “BBC Four at 20”.

A conference paper presented at the “Music and the Moving Image” conference in May 2022 (hosted by NYU), co-authored with Júlia Durand.

A paper presented at the conference “Anonymity, Un-Originality, Collectivity – Contested Modes of Authorship”, hosted by the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick.

An interview with Alex Lewis and Charlie Hilton discussing all things library music.

Co-convened conference panel with Melissa Morton and Bernadette Pace (both University of Edinburgh). My paper was entitled “Compartmentalised Collaboration? Library Music in Factual Television Production”.

A guest lecture on library music for the Masters course “Analytic Methods for Music and Media”.