Current Research Projects

SoundMind (€1m)
The SoundMind project aims to develop therapeutic and assistive uses of Augmented Audio Reality (AAR) for people with Alzheimer’s Disease. SoundMind, a collaboration between King’s College London and University College Cork,  is funded by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute and is led by Dr Alexander Khalil, Department of Music, University College Cork and Dr Grainne McLoughlin, Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN).

ECura (ERC StG €1.5m) 
ECura innovatively designs a new research framework for applied ethnomusicology (and related areas) that capitalizes on newly emergent possibilities for sustaining intangible culture arising from the rising participation of ethnic minority members in digital social media platforms.

CIPHER (ERC CoG €2m)
CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation is a five year, €2 million study of Global Hip Hop knowledge flows on six continents, funded by the European Research Council.

Research Fellows

Dr. Giacomo Leoni, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow
APTES: A Path Towards Ethical Spectatorship

Dr. Anna Viola Sborgi, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow
MEDIAHOMES: Housing Precarity on Screen in Ireland, Portugal and the UK from the 2008 crisis to COVID-19

Dr. Janne Rantala, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow
POME RAPMOZ: Performing Political Memory as Hip Hop Knowledge in Mozambican Rap

Dr. Jason Ng, IRC GOI Postdoctoral Research Fellow
NAPHH: Networking Asia-Pacific Hip Hop

Dr. Gustavo Souza Marques, ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow - CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation
Latin America and Circum-Caribbean Regional Specialist

Dr. Shyamasundar LB, ERC Research Fellow - CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation
Cultural Data Analytics and Machine Learning Specialist

Dr. Leonardo D'Amico, ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow - ECURA: Everyone's a Curator: Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority Music Sustainability in China
Audio-visual ethnographic filming in Bulang and Bai

Dr. Jin Dai, ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow - ECURA: Everyone's a Curator: Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority Music Sustainability in China
Music Management on Ethnic minority music in digital era

Dr. Keyi Liu, ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow - ECURA: Everyone's a Curator: Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority Music Sustainability in China
Digital mean and music sustainability among Bai people

Lewis Smith, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow - SoundMind: Investigating the use of Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) in Dementia
AAR application development

AmirAli Farokhniaee, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow - SoundMind: Investigating the use of Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) in Dementia
Electrophysiology of neuromodulation

Research by Department