Mark Armstrong – jazz and related styles; commercial music.
Dr Dave Camlin – participatory performance; community music; social impact of music; musician education; philosophy.
Professor Terence Charlston – performance practice; practice research; genre; source analysis; keyboard organology.
Dr Carola Darwin – music and gender; women composers; vocal music and opera; performance.
Dr Gerardo Gozzi - microtonality; extended techniques; perception of sound; improvisation.
Dr Christina Guillaumier – Russian and Slavic music; modernism, politics and cultural history; piano repertoires; practice research, digital pedagogy.
Professor Trevor Herbert – brass instruments; music and society, especially in Britain.
Dr Maiko Kawabata – performance history; performance studies; gender and music; race and music.
Andrew McCrea – organ historiography; keyboard performance practice; genres and styles; reception studies.
Dr Ingrid Pearson – performance practice; practice research; woodwind organology and iconography; historiography.
Professor Ashley Solomon – flute and recorder; performance practice; practice research; woodwind organology.

All applicants in composition should address initial enquiries to the Head of Composition Dr Jonathan Cole. Please include research proposal, two or three examples of previous work, and the name of any supervisor you would especially like to work with. 

Professor Mark Bowden - orchestral & chamber music; vocal & choral music; opera; music for dance.
Dr Jonathan Cole - composition; Indeterminacy; American Experimentalists; Stockhausen; Acoustics; John Cage.
Dr Gerardo Gozzi - microtonality; extended techniques; perception of sound; improvisation.
Kenneth Hesketh - techniques of C20 music; orchestration/transcription; music of Dutilleux; musical ekphrasis.
Dr Alison Kay - C20/C21 compositional technique; orchestration/transcription; experimental ideas.
Haris Kittos - composition; experimental music; sound art; visual art; interdisciplinary approaches; multimedia.
William Mival - extended and dramatic forms; orchestral and ensemble music; decadence; post- and neo-romanticism.
Dr Diana Salazar - electroacoustic; sound art; site-specific practices; artistic collaboration; technology in education.

All applicants in Performance Science should address initial enquiries to Dr Anna Détári. Please include research proposal, and the name of any supervisor you would especially like to work with.

Please note that applications for Performance Science are closed for September 2025 entry.

Dr Anna Detari - performers' health and wellbeing; performance-related disorders; Focal Dystonia; neurodiversity.
Dr Tania Lisboa - practice and memorisation; technology in education; arts in health and wellbeing; music and SEND.
Professor Rosie Perkins - music and mental health; parental wellbeing; musicians’ wellbeing; institutional cultures.
Dr Neta Spiro - musical care; music in health; music psychology; performers’ health & wellbeing.
Dr George Waddell - performance optimisation; cognition; decision-making; evaluation; perception; technology.
Professor Aaron Williamon -performance psychology, evaluation and anxiety; cognition; memory; arts and health.

Professor Robert Adlington – music post-1960; modernism and avant-garde; music and politics; music and democracy  
Dr Ann van Allen-Russell – the long C18: music and culture; performance practice; intellectual property and copyright
Dr Carola Darwin – music and gender; women composers; vocal music and opera; performance
Dr Sarah Fuchs – C19 and C20 music and culture, especially France; audio-visual media; digital cultural heritage
Dr Christina Guillaumier – Russian and Slavic music; modernism and politics; piano repertoires; practice research
Professor Trevor Herbert – brass instruments; music and society, especially in Britain
Ivan Hewett – modernism; music and aesthetics; music post-1945
Dr Maiko Kawabata – performance history; performance studies; gender and music; race and music
Professor Richard Langham Smith – C19 and C20 French music, particularly opera and Debussy; Spanish music
Andrew McCrea – organ historiography; keyboard performance practice; genres and styles; reception studies
Dr Ingrid Pearson – performance practice; practice research; woodwind organology and iconography; historiography
Professor David Wright – British music and its economic, social, cultural contexts; performance training; British composition; conservatoire and university music education
Dr Sarah K. Whitfield – women in music, music history, digital humanities, musical theatre and opera, practice-led research, Queer studies, data and music education 

Professor Terence Charlston – performance practice; practice research; genre; source analysis; keyboard organology.
Professor Trevor Herbert – brass instruments; music and society, especially in Britain.
Dr Ingrid Pearson – performance practice; practice research; woodwind organology and iconography; historiography.
Professor Gabriele Rossi Rognoni – material culture studies; musical instrument studies; iconography; museum studies.
Professor Ashley Solomon – flute and recorder; performance practice; practice research; woodwind organology.