Dr Nikki Moran
Senior Lecturer
college of art
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
My work centres on the relationship between musical performance and everyday social interaction. I specialise in the study of musicians’ communicative behaviour and have published both theoretical and original empirical research, combining fieldwork and ethnography with controlled experimental design. I contributed to the development of Music's new 4-year undergraduate programme, Music - MA (Hons), leading the design of a programme that reflects issues arising through my research interests - to do with the role of conventional music literacy in HE and music scholarship, and a critical approach to interdisciplinary discourses about music. I teach on various core and elective undergraduate courses for all music undergraduates, and supervise a number of PhD students. I’m currently Music's Postgraduate Research director.
Research Interest
Music as social interaction Oral/improvised music performance Psychology of music/embodied music cognition Academic discourse on music and science
Publications
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How do conductors' movements communicate compositional features and interpretational intentions?
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What is it we see when we see musical interaction?
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Agency in embodied musical interaction
