
MEMBERS
COORDINATOR

PROFESSOR PHILIP HAYWARD
JMC ACADEMY + UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
The cultural context of popular music, screen soundtracks, music video, Pacific music cultures
HDR SUPERVISION
6 Masters and 28 PhD students supervised to completion
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS
2 ARC Discovery Grants, 2 ARC Collaborative Grants
MEMBERS

PROFESSOR MARK EVANS
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Screen soundtracks, popular music, music industries, Christian music
HDR SUPERVISION
4 Masters and 9 PhDs supervised to completion, 4 PhDs in progress
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS
1 ARC Discovery grant

DR LIZ GIUFFRE
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Popular music, broadcast media, digital media, film music, audience studies, genre studies
HDR SUPERVISION
3 PhDs in progress

DR LACHLAN GOOLD
JMC ACADEMY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
DIY recording and the spatiotemporal conditions of recording studios
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS
various APRA, Arts Queensland and Australia Council grants

DR ROBERT SAZDOV
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
electroacoustic music and sound studies
HDR SUPERVISION
15 Masters and 4 PhD students supervised to completion, 1 DCA student in progress
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS
European Commission ‘Horizon 2020’ research grant

DR IAN STEVENSON
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
sound design, sound studies, soundscape analysis, and music and sound pedagogy
HDR SUPERVISION
1 Masters, 4 PhDs and 2 DCAs supervised to completion, 1 DCA in progress
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS
Australia Council Interarts New Work grant, Arts NSW Creative Development grant

DR MARISOL ALONSO-VAZQUEZ
JMC ACADEMY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
entrepreneurship, sentiment analysis and behavioural change in organisations and individuals within the context of the entertainment industries.

DR FELICITY WILCOX
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
music for the screen, gender in music and practice-based research in new and interdisciplinary music composition
HDR SUPERVISION
2 DCA students in progress
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS
Australia Council New Work development grant, Australia Council New Work presentation grant, NSW Film and TV Office development grant
ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERS
(CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN DOCTORAL DEGREES)
JEFF CRABTREE
PHD TOPIC
‘Tunesmiths and Toxicity: Workplace harassment in the contemporary Australian and New Zealand Music Industries’
CARLA THAKRA
DCA TOPIC
'Sounding Identity: extending traditional portrait form with temporal sound and music as its initiating media'
ANDREW BARNUM
PHD TOPIC
‘Amplifying the voice of Australian song and songwriters to renew and sustain local identity, artefact and change’
ROWAN HOLMES
DCA TOPIC
‘Melodiæ Incognita: Exploring the Bohlen-Pierce scale’