People

Dr Joseph Browning (co-director)

Dr Joseph Browning is Senior Lecturer in Music in the Department of Performing Arts. His work explores the ecological dimensions of musical practice, from "nature" and "environment" as themes in contemporary compositions through to more-than-human perspectives on instrument-making and site-specificity.

Dr Claudia Molitor

(Co-director) Reader Performing Arts(E&R)

Dr Claudia Molitor is a composer and artist whose work hovers between music and sound art, extending across contemporary art practices, such as video and installation art. Exploring the role listening can play in our world as well as embracing collaboration as compositional practice is central to much of her practice.

https://www.claudiamolitor.org/

Dr Aaron Einbond

(SPARC Lab director/Innovative Sound Practices Lead)

Dr Aaron Einbond’s work connects instrumental music, field recording, sound installation, and interactive technology to explore relationships between instrument, loudspeaker, listener, space, and place.

Dr Ruth Herbert

(Communities, Health and Well-being Lead) Lecturer in Performing Arts

Dr Ruth Herbert is a music psychologist and performer with diverse research interests in the fields of music in everyday life, music, health and wellbeing, music and consciousness (including ASC and Trance), sonic studies and music education. Further research interests include performance psychology, evolutionary psychology and ethology.

Prof Newton Armstrong

Professor of Music

Professor Newton Armstrong is a composer, performer, and occasional builder of electronic musical instruments. His work has encompassed a wide range of activities, including score-based instrumental music, projects for children, and improvisation projects with dancers, choreographers, film, video, and installation artists. Much of his music is situated across and between the areas of instrumental and electronic music, with focus directed towards the composed interactions between people, technologies, and their environments.

Dr Mira Benjamin

Lecturer in Music

Dr Mira Benjamin is a Canadian violinist specialising in 20th and 21st century experimental music. Mira's research explores frameworks of embodiment in the performance of experimental music. She is interested in how the human body holds and experiences knowledge, and how these ways of knowing can support performers in both professional and research contexts.

Leo Chadburn

Performance Officer

Leo Chadburn is a composer and performer of experimental and electronic music, 'avant-pop' and music for the gallery. He is responsible for curating the public concert series and the Summer festival at City St George's, besides administrating student performances throughout the academic year.

Dr Dominic Davies

Reader in English

Dr Dom Davies is an academic and author whose research focuses on infrastructure – roads, railways, energy systems, homes, borders: the material structures that underpin modern life. He is particularly interested in the lived experience of infrastructure and the way it shapes our political imagination. His writing connects infrastructure to histories of empire and nationalism, and to cultures of place and beloning, both in Britain and across the post-imperial world. Through knowledge exchange and impact work, he uses practices in the arts and humanities to formulate meaningful solutions to infrastructure problems.

Jennifer Edmonds

Lecturer in Performing Arts

Dr Leslie Gaston-Bird

Senior Lecturer

Dr Leslie Gaston-Bird CAS, MPSE is President-Elect of the Audio Engineering Society and a Pro Tools | Dolby Professional Avid Certified Instructor and Dante Level-3 Certified audio engineer specializing in rerecording mixing and sound editing. She is author of the book Women in Audio, part of the AES Presents series published by Focal Press (Routledge).

Matt Gooderson

Lecturer in Music

Matt Gooderson (BA MA SFHEA) is an award-winning British music artist, producer, composer, songwriter, and academic, renowned for his contributions to the music industry and education. As a researcher, Gooderson explores the intersection of music production, technology, and the creative process, with a particular focus on the impact of artificial intelligence on creativity.

Dr Sara Jones

Reader in Creative Interactive System Design

Dr Sara Jones is a Reader in Creative Interactive System Design in the Faculty of Management at Bayes Business School, Director of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, and Course Director for the interdisciplinary Master’s in Innovation Creativity and Leadership (MICL).

Sara's research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of applied creativity and design, and their relationships with innovation, especially digital innovation, leadership and learning; Sara works with colleagues from disciplines including computer science, engineering, law, psychology, health and the arts.

Lyndsey McDougall

Senior Lecturer

Bethany Morgan-Brett

Research Fellow

Prof Laudan Nooshin

Professor of Music

Professor Laudan Nooshin is an active researcher working in the broad fields of urban sound studies, film music studies, popular music studies and contemporary music cultures, with a particular focus on Iran and the Middle East.

Dr Erik Nyström

Senior Lecturer

Dr Erik Nyström is a composer working in the field of electroacoustic and computer music. The majority of his works are created for multichannel sound projection, and among the recurring interests in his practice are synthetic sound, spatiotemporal processes, texture perception, and visual and physical listening experiences. His current practice is focused on live performance using interactive algorithmic systems for spatial sound synthesis.

www.eriknystrom.com

Dr Tullis Rennie

Senior Lecturer in Music

Dr Tullis Rennie is a composer, improvising trombonist, electronic musician, and field recordist. His work encompasses sound installation, community-engaged participative projects, multi-channel concert works, video, mixed media and live/improvised performances.

Dr Katie Rose Sanfilippo

Presidential Fellowship

Dr Katie Rose Mahon Sanfilippo is a Presidential Research Fellow at SHPS and a member of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research. Her overall research interests concern the function and application of music and the arts within healthcare contexts to address health inequalities. Her current research is investigating how community and arts-based approaches and interventions can be scaled-up, spread and sustained more equitably in the UK and globally, with a focus on resource-constrained settings.

Dr Jennifer Smith

Lecturer in Music

Dr Jennifer Smith is a Lecturer in Music at City, University London. Jennifer teaches on sound and the moving image, alongside video game music. Her research focuses on voices as worldbuilding tools in video games, and how they engage the player with the characters and environments of the world alongside music and sound.

Brett Spencer

Senior Lecturer in Podcasting

Brett Spencer is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre of Podcasting Excellence. He is also a founder of the SJ Broadcast consultancy, a creative consultant for Spiritland Productions and is Executive Editor of BBC Three Counties Radio and BBC Northampton.