Meet The Team

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.