In 2011 I started my MA in Music Industries at Birmingham City University, where I'm now employed part-time as a visiting lecturer and work on various projects in the research centre. In addition to this I work for Static Caravan Records, looking after the online side of things relating to their lovely catalogue of recordings, and I continue to write, record and produce music of my own (largely the same group of people who I had those exciting adventures with, I'm pleased to say) and release it on Commercially Inviable Records, the label I started. To date the label has released 28 albums and singles from a variety of country/folk/americana artists. 

My final MA project was something I called Harkive (www.harkive.org), which aimed to gather stories from music fans online about how they listen to music on a single day. The project ran for the first time in 2013, and again in 2014. It will continue as an annual project. In early 2014 I was awarded a Doctoral Research Scholarship by the AHRC to develop Harkive into my PhD thesis. This work begins in September 2014 at Birmingham City University.

Location

Birmingham, UK

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• Music and Musicology
• Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies
• Journalism, Media, and Communication

Affiliation

Birmingham City University

Website

http://www.harkive.org