Postdoctoral Research

Raising a Voice

Postdoctoral Research at Guildhall

Postdoctoral Research Fellows are an increasingly important part of the research environment of the School: they receive mentoring from established staff, supervise doctoral research, contribute to research-orientated teaching at undergraduate level, and form a vital part of large externally-funded projects hosted at Guildhall, such as the AHRC project ‘Music for social impact: practitioners’ contexts, work and beliefs’ (PI Prof. John Sloboda). They also act as liaison with our main institutional partners, as for example on the Barbican-Guildhall Archives Project.

Our Fellows are funded from a number of sources, including the AHRC, the Barbican, and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, as well as directly by the School. In 2019 the School was particularly successful in the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition, securing two fellowships in Music: half the total UK number in the subject that year. Further success followed in 2021 with the award of a third fellowship from the Trust.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Kate

Dr Kate Bennett Wadsworth

Kate Bennett Wadsworth is a cellist and gambist devoted to historical performance of all periods, with a special research interest in 19th-century performing practice.

Matt

Dr Matthew Harle

Former Research Fellow (2016-2019), Matthew Harle is a Barbican-Guildhall Archive Curator who is part of the team assembling and interpreting the Barbican’s archives for the Centre’s 40th anniversary in 2022.

Tom

Dr Tom Overton

Former Research Fellow (2016-2019), Tom Overton is a Barbican-Guildhall Archive Curator who is part of the team assembling and interpreting the Barbican’s archives for the Centre’s 40th anniversary in 2022.

Maia

Dr Maia Mackney

Maia Mackney is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who joined Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2019 as part of a research collaboration between Guildhall and the Barbican Centre.

Toby Young

Dr Toby Young

Toby Young is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Guildhall School, currently working primarily on ‘Transforming the operatic voice’.

Patrick

Dr Patrick John Jones

Patrick John Jones is a composer and researcher working on a practice-based Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, ‘Sounding the archive: composition as translation and adaptation’.

Jo

Dr Jo Gibson

Jo Gibson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Guildhall School, working on the AHRC-funded project entitled: ‘Music for social impact: Practitioners’ contexts, work and beliefs’.

Alessandro

Dr Alessandro Mazzola

Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020 - 2022), Alessandro Mazzola worked primarily on the AHRC-funded project entitled ‘Music for social impact: Practitioners’ contexts, work and beliefs’.