The FestiVersities team draws together expertise from across five European research institutions in a variety of arts, humanities and social science disciplines, and engages widely with a broad range of artistic, cultural and sociological themes and ideas.
Project Lead
University of Southern Denmark,
Denmark
Research interests: cosmopolitan cultures and everyday cosmopolitanism; spaces of social
belonging; materiality, community & affect; makers and making; music production and
consumption.
Principal Investigators
University of Limerick,
Ireland
Research interests: ethnicity, identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the traditional and popular musics of Ireland, UK, North America, and Australia; music Festivals and cultural Diversity; music and migration; urban soundscapes and critical citizenship; protest music.
University of Bristol,
United Kingdom
Research interests: sociological approaches to music; race and ethnicity; cultural and creative industries; cultural entrepreneurship in the digital economy; memory/imagination and public spaces.
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Research interests: social inequalities in music; cultural and creative industries; inclusion policy; and awkwardness.
Jagiellonian University,
Poland
Research interests: cross-cultural flows; hybrid cultural identities; artistic expression of migrants; music in intercultural relations.
Post-Doctoral researchers
University of Bristol,
United Kingdom
Research interests: the fields of ethnicity; lived diversities; cultural diversity; whiteness studies; everyday racism.
University of Limerick,
Ireland
Research interests: diversity and access at music festivals; gender politics in the music industry; popular music and performance ethnographies; multigenerational music scenes; authenticity, belonging and identity.
Doctoral Candidates
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Research interests: sociological approaches to the arts in the city; cultural diversity; citizenship and belonging; public art and public space.
Jagiellonian University,
Poland
Research interests: audience studies; internet studies; fan culture; popular culture.
University of Southern Denmark,
Denmark
Research interests: ethnographic fieldwork; materiality and materials; making of spaces; ecological thinking; embodiment; consumption.