AUTUMN 2021 and recurring every year
Creator and convener of the TenU Future Leaders Programme, an international programme of peer-learning and exchange for mid to senior technology transfer professionals.
“Many thanks for this incredible program. I feel so fortunate to have been able to participate, and hope that many others, from a range of institutions, are able to in the future. ”
AUTUMN 2019
Visiting lecturer ‘Music copyright and contracts’, Department of Performing Arts, Middlesex University London, October 2019.
SPRING 2019
Co-convener and lecturer ‘Music and law’, Inter-disciplinary collaboration between the Department of Music and The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, Spring 2019.
This module will bring together students from the Law School and the Music Department who would like to broaden their knowledge of the legal environment of the music business today. With the advent of the digital age and new tools for the independent production and circulation of music, the music profession demands a greater involvement in the business of music than ever before. Copyright law is at the centre of these activities, framing contracts and the relations between musicians, their collaborators and employers. For the most part, the module will focus on UK law, but US and European law will occasionally be considered for comparative purposes.
“This has been the most organised and most interesting module I’ve ever taken.”
AUTUMN 2018
Visiting lecturer ‘Music copyright and contracts’, Department of Performing Arts, Middlesex University London, October 2018.
AUTUMN 2017
Visiting lecturer 'Music copyright: inter-disciplinary approaches', School of Law, Canterbury Christ Church University, December 2017.
Visiting lecturer 'Doing 'music industry' fieldwork: negotiating access into an imaginary space' as part of the seminar 'Doing ethnomusicology', Department of Music, Wellesley College, Boston, September 2017.
AUTUMN 2016
Academia meets industry: creating long-term collaborations
Mellon Centre for Disciplinary Innovation Teaching Fellowship, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
Co-convened with Lionel Bently, this course sets a precedent for future collaborations between the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) and the music industry and government. It does this by engaging in direct conversation with some of their representatives: Google, IFPI, CISAC, the Musicians’ Union, the Intellectual Property Office and the Pirate Party. It examines the multiplicity of voices, including that of scholarship, their differing perspectives and stakes in the business of making music. By working within a multi-disciplinary team of doctoral students and scholars on possible directions emerging from the widely publicised contemporary challenges relating to music copyright law, this course seeks a better understanding of how collaborations between the AHSS, industry and government may be sustained in the long-term.
SPRING 2016
The music industry in the digital age
Music Faculty, University of Cambridge
This course of lectures for undergraduate students examines how digital technology has shaped creativity, ownership and the creation of economic value in music over the last two decades. What are the implications of file-sharing, streaming and other practices facilitated by digital technology for the survival of the music industry as we know it? Digital technology, it has been argued, has closed the gap between producers and consumers. The course investigates strategies employed by entrepreneurial musicians and asks what new forms of creativity, ownership and economic value have been created as a result.
AUTUMN 2015
Public policy in action
Cambridge AHRC DTP Public Policy Engagement Programme in partnership with RAND Europe, University of Cambridge
Part of the University of Cambridge Doctoral Training Programme, this programme brings together the expertise of policy consultancy RAND Europe and eminent policy-makers to explore the relationship between the students’ own research and the world of public policy. The sessions start with a broad introduction to the world of public policy, narrowing to explore policy impacts within the University environment, and finally exploring how students can engage with public policymaking, no matter how conceptual their own research might seem.
I was invited to teach the fourth module, ‘Public policy in action’.