All in a year’s work…

Phew.  What a year.  Thank you to all those students who have completed modules with me this year.  As ever, Continue reading →

Conference paper – June 2015

‘Hot on the press: an examination of increased coverage of female musicians, in pixels and in print, in the English Continue reading →

Thanks for visiting!

A big thank you to everyone who visited this website in 2014!  My 2014 annual stats report shows that this Continue reading →

Litpop: Writing and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2014). Now in print!

It was a wonderful surprise to unwrap my personal hardcopy of this new Ashgate title which arrived in the post Continue reading →

Popular music adding value through community choirs

Earlier this year I spoke at a conference on ‘The Value of Popular Music’, and on hearing the news that Continue reading →

Popular Music Research Group – Open Lecture at Oxford Brookes University

Dr Jennifer Skellington on Bob Dylan’s Tangled up in Blue (1974): A Disturbance of Narrative Order? 1pm, Tuesday 18th March, Continue reading →

Singing with The Cotswold Voices in Swindon Town Centre, December 2013

They say that variety is the spice of life and this would certainly count as variety in mine.  After setting Continue reading →

JLS Farewell Tour at the O2, December 2013

This would never have been my first choice for a night out in London but, thanks to some free tickets Continue reading →