Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of...
- Anthropology of Ireland
- Music, Conflict, and Identity
- Music and Social Interventions
- Political Anthropology
- Popular Culture, Sport, and Political Expression
Public outreach & key achievements
My monograph 'Sounding Dissent: Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism': https://press.umich.edu/Books/S/Sounding-Dissent2
Policy report 'Community Experiences of Sectarianism in Scotland': https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2015/02/community-experiences-sectarianism/documents/community-experiences-sectarianism/community-experiences-sectarianism/govscot%3Adocument/00470344.pdf
Article on using music to engage hard-to-reach young people in Scotland (published open access for British Journal of Music Education): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-music-education/article/cool-music-a-bottomup-music-intervention-for-hardtoreach-young-people-in-scotland/063F0220A3FC4D0EA73ACB87331DF47A
Podcast on ‘Music, Conflict and Culture’ in Northern Ireland for Shrapnel: https://t.co/tJNZU9egIn
Songs of the Northern Ireland Conflict (SoNIC) Archive: https://sonicarchive.net
Research students
| PhD Title | Intercultural Understanding and Translocal Interactions: Irish Traditional Music Communities and the Irish State in China |
| Name | Eoin Kearns |
| Years of Study | 2025 - 2028 |
| Country | Republic of Ireland |
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Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Centre for Creative Ethnography