I’m currently in my final year of a PhD, through a studentship with the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership:
My project is on Confronting canonicity and promoting diversity: Gender and contemporary concert programming. Working with the Donne Foundation, the goal is to create an evidence base on gender disparity within contemporary classical-music concert programming with the aim of realising effective strategies and pathways for the programming of diverse women composers within international orchestral and ensemble concerts. My research will produce a number of case studies to inform concrete strategies organisations can use to tackle underrepresentation in their programming (while exploring issues such as inequality, canonisation, and tokenism.)
Supervised by Dr Laura Hamer, Dr Marie Thomson, Dr Manuella Blackburn, Gabriella di Laccio. With special thanks to Simon Webb and the BBC.
Other research interests include queer theory, performance practice, opera and music for the stage, and policy. I have presented at various conferences in the UK, including at Cambridge University, the University of Leeds, the Open University (winning the judges’ prize for poster presentation), and the University of Wolverhampton.
Please get in touch with any queries about policy work or musicology-based research.
