About
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Research
Research interests
- Arts management and cultural policy; cultural economics
- Seventeenth-century English opera
- Aspects of organology, especially the early twentieth-century English recorder revival.
Current research
- A new edition of King Arthur (music by Henry Purcell, words by John Dryden), for publication in the Purcell Society Edition of Purcell’s complete works
- One or two articles about King Arthur, spinning off from the main edition
- Funding the Arts: a monograph for Routledge.
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Research groups
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Research interests
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Current research
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Research projects
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Publications
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Supervision
Current PhD Students
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Teaching
- Arts management, music management: “How the Arts Work”, and Southampton’s MA degree in International Music Management
- Community music: political drivers, funding, project management
- Culture and politics in later seventeenth-century “Great Britain”
- Research project supervision: happy to help third-year undergraduates and postgraduates with research across a broad range of subject areas.
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Courses and modules
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External roles and responsibilities
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Biography
I teach arts management and cultural policy to students across the university, making special provision for musicians. I worked in the Arts Council’s music department for 13 years before moving to Southampton, developing national policy and spending tens of millions of pounds of public money – experience on which I continue to draw and which I am happy to share.
Two high-profile arts venues in Southampton are closely associated with the university: Turner Sims concert hall (only a few metres from our Music Department), and the John Hansard Gallery (in brand new city centre premises). Colleagues running these venues provide eye-opening lecture content for my introductory module “How the Arts Work”, and offer a one-to-one advisory service for students planning careers in the arts.
I have research interests in a number of different fields and a track record of publication in at least three: cultural policy, as you might expect, organology (musical instrument design and technology) and early English opera. I have co-edited two volumes in the Purcell Society’s complete edition of Purcell’s works (The Indian Queen, 1994; The Fairy Queen, 2009) and am most of the way through a third (King Arthur, forthcoming). I am a versatile research supervisor working with students from final-year undergraduate up to PhD on a fascinating range of projects. I encourage career-orientated research that asks and answers questions of concern to working musicians, not just to academics. I helped to set up Southampton’s MA International Music Management programme and am still a busy member the programme’s teaching team.
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Prizes
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