My research explores the relationship between music and identity, with a particular focus on how communities use music to define themselves. Supervised by Professor Sarah Hill, my DPhil will investigate how the Polish diaspora in England uses music to draw generational boundaries within this community, and how such boundary-making practices impact the wider British cultural sphere. While music has the power to bring people together, it can also divide, exclude, and other; consequences that can be deeply significant.
Outside of my academic work, I can often be found hiking up mountains or kayaking across lakes with my dog, accompanied, of course, by an esoteric folk soundtrack.
