Director

Philip Dodds

Philip Dodds, in addition to being director of the Sound Environment Centre, is a researcher at the Department of Musicology and Intermediate Studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences, and currently works with the research project "Musical colonisation: Scots and Swedes in southern Africa, 1770–1850", which is funded by the Swedish Research Council. This is an audio study project with a focus on cultural history. He has previously worked on a variety of sound-related projects with more contemporary orientations and different disciplinary perspectives and frameworks. 

Philip Dodd's background is interdisciplinary: he holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy (University of Sheffield), an MSc in History of Ideas (University of Edinburgh) and a PhD in Geography (University of Edinburgh). He came to Lund as a postdoctoral fellow in 2019 with the project "Sonic Sense of Place" at the Department of Cultural Sciences, and since then he has participated in many of the Sound Environment Center's network events and planning meetings. He has also been involved in organizing sound studies and lecture series. Recently, together with several other members of the LMC network, he was part of the interdisciplinary research theme "Sound of Democracy" at the Pufendorf Institute.