THE TEAM
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
Professor Ian WOODWARD
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 Investigator
Professor Jo HAYNES
University of Bristol,
United Kingdom
Research interests: sociological approaches to music; race and ethnicity; cultural and creative industries; cultural entrepreneurship in the digital economy, music festivals.
Principal Investigator
Dr Aileen DILLANE
University of Limerick,
Ireland
Research interests: ethnicity, identity, nationalism; trad. & popular musics of Ireland, UK, Nth America, Australia; festivals, cultural diversity; migration; urban soundscapes; critical citizenship; protest music.
Principal Investigator
Professor Pauwke BERKERS
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Research interests: social inequalities in music; cultural and creative industries; inclusion policy; and awkwardness.
Principal Investigator
Dr Karolina GOLEMO
Jagiellonian University,
Poland
Research interests: cross-cultural flows; hybrid cultural identities; artistic expression of migrants; music in intercultural relations.
Doctoral Candidate
Marta KUPIS
Jagiellonian University,
Poland
Research interests: audience studies; internet studies; fan culture; popular culture.
Doctoral Candidate
Britt SWARTJES
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Research interests: sociological approaches to the arts in the city; cultural diversity; citizenship and belonging; public art and public space.
Post-Doctoral researcher
Dr Magda MOGILNICKA
University of Bristol,
United Kingdom
Research interests: the fields of ethnicity; lived diversities; cultural diversity; whiteness studies; everyday racism.
Post-Doctoral researcher
Dr Sarah RAINE
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.