Professor Simon McKerrell
Head of Department
Department of Media and Journalism
Simon McKerrell is interested in the social impact of music. His current research focuses on music in the creative economy in rural areas, and he has published widely on the understanding and agency of music and people who make, consume, distribute, promote and share music.
He is the author of Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Routledge), and the Co-Editor of both Music as Multimodal Discourse: Media, Power and Protest (Bloomsbury) and Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition, Modernity (Routledge). His current research focuses on the question of how best to support musical micro-enterprises in the rural creative economy.
He has previously worked at the Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Newcastle University, where he served as Head of Department, Director of Research in the School of Arts and Cultures, and as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation.
He is also well known internationally as a bagpiper and composer and has recorded 12 albums. Open to PhD students