Intercultural dialogue and communication — understanding how people from different cultural backgrounds encounter difference, exchange perspectives and learn from one another.
Musical engagement and music appreciation — exploring listening as an active process involving attention, emotion, interpretation, participation and discussion.
Migration and diaspora — considering how music travels with people and becomes connected to memory, belonging and changing forms of cultural identity.
Cultural identity and representation — examining how musical cultures are represented, categorised and interpreted, particularly through broad labels such as “Latin”.
Music, hybridity and cultural exchange — exploring how sounds change when they travel and interact with new places, communities and musical traditions.
London and urban culture — understanding the city as a meeting point where different cultural codes coexist, overlap and generate new cultural forms.
Participatory and action research — using listening sessions, conversations and interventions to produce knowledge through interaction with participants rather than observation alone.