Dr Francesca Carpos

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Research
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Research Active Staff
Francesca Carpos

Biography

Dr Francesca Carpos is an Academic Researcher at Guildhall School of Music & Drama's Institute for Social Impact Research in the Performing Arts, where her research focusses on social justice and socio-legal issues in the orchestral profession.

Francesca is a professional bassoon player, having worked for leading national and international orchestras for over thirty years. She is the bassoonist on TV adverts such as Kellogg’s, Duracell Batteries, Boots the Chemist and Andrex. Francesca is an experienced conservatoire lecturer, bassoon teacher and examiner, and her lifelong interest in the practices that unfairly disadvantage classical musicians led to her doctoral research (PhD) at University College London (UCL).

To broaden her wide-ranging body of research, Francesca has recently completed a GDL Law conversion, and is currently training as a barrister, having been awarded a BPC Advocacy Scholarship (University of Law, Bloomsbury).

Francesca is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of Trinity College, London, Member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, Member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Francesca’s PhD research, titled The Prestige Economy of a London Orchestra, is an insider’s examination into the orchestral profession, principally to shine a light on the long-standing complacency towards racism, favouritism, sexism, cronyism, and nepotism: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10024679/