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Dr Kate Kennedy

Dr Kate Kennedy

Dr Kate Kennedy

Supernumerary Research Fellow, Wolfson College; Co-Director, Oxford Centre for Life-writing

Kate's non-academic profile can be found at https://drkatekennedy.wordpress.com/  

Kate Kennedy’s research focuses on twentieth century British music and literature, and she combines her academic work with BBC broadcasting and performance as a cellist. She studied at Cambridge University, the Royal College of Music and King’s College London. She has held research fellowships at Girton College Cambridge, Wolfson College Oxford, and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in music at Cambridge University where she lectured and supervised courses on aspects of twentieth century music.  She is a member of the Artistic Advisory Board for Southbank Sinfonia at St John’s Smith Square, the General Manager of the Museum of Music History Home - Museum of Music History (momh.org.uk) and Shadbolt Visiting Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

She won the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Public Engagement with Research in 2017, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022.