PhD Projects

Todd J. Bennett (PhD candidate, aligned with the Climate Vocabularies project)
Project title: ‘Vocabularies of Kin: Layers and Languages from Country’

Jared Yapp (PhD candidate, aligned with the Climate Vocabularies project)
Project title: ‘Deep Listening as a Social Art: Awareness-based systems change and the Climate Crisis’

Sofia Carbonara (PhD candidate)
Project title: ‘A Credible Paradise: Transforming the Posthuman Self’

Zela Papageorgiou (PhD candidate)
Project title: ‘Percussion as a spiritual body’

Po Goh (Masters candidate)
Project title: Tyler Durden Learns to Ride a Bike: innovating four-hands piano through holistic musical practice

Niki Johnson (PhD, conferred 2026)
Project title: ‘Haptic Listening: Intersensory Engagement and More-Than-Human Agency in the Percussionist’s Hands’

Nina Buchanan (Masters, conferred 2025)
Project title: ‘A Carrier Bag Theory of Electronic Music: Relationality in Human-Machine Interaction’

Maria Moles (Masters candidate)
Project title: ‘Augmenting the drum kit: Creative electroacoustic composition with a focus on timbre and improvisation’