I am a musicologist specialising in musical texture and timbre, electronic dance music in particular. My academic expertise and interests include genre in popular music, music histories, music technology, intermediality and intertextuality, ecocriticism, cultural dynamics, and creative agency. My methodological experience encompasses music analysis, historiography, ethnography, qualitative data analysis, ecosemiotic hermenutics, actor-network theory, media archaeology, as well as a novel applications of spectrographic and AI tools for music information retrieval (MIR). Alongside my research activities, I teach on the Music and Technology pathway in the music department at the University of Liverpool.

Presently Co-PI of a Brigstow-funded research project into empathetic bonds formed through music sharing. Served as General Editor of issue 9 of Question Journal. Co-organiser of the Low End Theories conference (May 2023). Project Lead at Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust, designing sound-based education workshops for KS2 students. President and workshop organiser for the University of Bristol Poetry and Creative Writing Society (2023-2024). Research disseminated at the IASPM UK and Ireland conference (2020) and the ACM Web Science conference (2021) and BFE-RMA annual conferences (2020, 2021, 2022), Hype Studies conference (2025), Culture of Attractions conference (2025), Dancecult annual conference (2026), and a collaborative contribution to the 'Bridging Emotions' workshop (2026). Co-authored publications in Question Journal and the Journal for Education in Museums, with several solo-authored publications forthcoming.