Jo Collinson Scott
Regardless (song by Jo Mango, string arrangement written by Susan Appelbee and performed by Susan Appelbe and Nichola Kerr) Regardless A shadow came out from behind the sun It orbited the space where the notes rise from I see through a pinhole I am moonless, artless But the sun spins on over you Regardless The… Continue reading Introducing TREEs (as a method)
I am currently co-investigator on a 3-year collaborative action research project, jointly funded by the ESRC and the AHRC called Distant Voices: Coming Home. I am joined in leading this by Principal Investigator Professor Fergus McNeill from the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at Glasgow University, and Co-Investigators Alison Urie from our host… Continue reading Introducing Distant Voices: Coming Home
Well well well... It seems time has swept me up on its inexorable wave, and here I am many months later with nothing but silence on my pop as research projects. This is a result of having too many things happening, rather than (as appears) nothing notable occurring. I am within a year of having… Continue reading Silences and System Holds
In my post "The Sound of Supervision", I spoke about my developing an EP of tracks to accompany a forthcoming book on mass supervision - Pervasive Punishment (McNeill, 2018). This work has been coming on apace and I wanted to share some of the context of the work and the process of developing the… Continue reading Clarity, Challenge and Change
This month I have been having an interesting discussion with colleagues at the University of the West of Scotland about submitting popular music to the REF. (For those readers who don't work in a university environment, the Research Excellence Framework [REF] is the system that rates the quality of research carried out in HE institutions… Continue reading Pop As Research and the REF
Pop As Research 