I am a music scholar with research interests in ethnomusicology, educational anthropology (democratic pedagogy), popular music and cultural studies, and (more recently) the music of Paraguay. I am holding a position as Senior Lecturer in Music at Liverpool John Moores University (UK) where I lead higher education courses and modules on globalisation, world music studies, popular music studies, and the role of music in culture.

I am the co-editor of Ethnomusicology Forum, the flagship journal of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. In its 20th year, the journal is published by the leading academic publisher Routledge (Taylor & Francis division) three times per year, and plays a prominent role in the furtherance and growth of ethnomusicology in the UK. The journal has acquired an international reputation as a source of high quality research papers, including prize-winning articles, while contributors come from Europe, US, Australia, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

From 2008 - 2011, I have been a committee member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, an association formerly known as the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM, UK Chapter). As an Affiliate National Committee to the ICTM, our aim is to advance the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of music and dance, including folk, popular, classical, urban, and other genres, of all countries.

In my career, I have gained over eight years teaching experience in ethnomusicology and related fields of musical study. Much of my current teaching is thematic and interdisciplinary, whilst leading higher education courses and modules on world music studies, popular music studies, globalization, and the role of music in culture.

I publish in the areas of ethnomusicology and have published a monograph entitled Experiencing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Learning in European Universities (Ashgate, 2009) that illustrates students’ experiences of the transmission of ethnomusicology in higher education. I also write and publish in the broader areas of musics in global culture, and currently complete a monograph on Popular Musics in World Perspective (Polity), which brings together ethnomusicology and popular music studies with chapters on identity, trans/nationalism, canon, race, ethnicity, self, other, orientalism, gender, space, place and human rights. A jointly edited book entitled The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Musical Migration and Tourism with contributions by international scholars and foci on musical migration, diasporic experience, travel and tourism has been contracted by Routledge to be published in 2013. I also research and write in music education more widely with specific focus on ethnography education and employability.