Musical Creativity and Community

We are excited by musical creativity in its own right – in performance, composition, improvisation, instruments and technology – and in the development of musical communities and networks.  

What we cover

• creative engagement with heritage, place and identity 
• technologies of creativity, including electronics and AI  
• classical performance cultures, especially 17th-19th centuries 
• global popular music and its communities 
• music pedagogies, historical and contemporary 
• women’s creativity 
• practice-based methods

Examples of projects and outputs

• Harriet Boyd-Bennett, A Woman in the Machine: In Search of Daphne Oram (British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 2025-26)
• Craig Vear, The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research (Routledge, 2021)
• Nicholas Baragwanath, The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Find out about all our projects