Director

Philip Dodds

Phil Dodds, in addition to being director of the Sound Environment Centre, is a researcher in the Division of Musicology and Intermedia Studies at the Department of Arts and 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 a sound studies project with a cultural historical focus, but he has previously worked on a variety of sound-related projects with more contemporary orientations and different disciplinary perspectives and frameworks. Recently, together with several other members of the Sound Environment Centre network, he was part of the interdisciplinary research theme “Sound of Democracy” at Lund University’s Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies.

Dodds’s background is interdisciplinary: he holds a BA in Politics & Philosophy (University of Sheffield), an MSc in Intellectual History (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 Arts and Cultural Sciences, and since then he has participated in many of the Sound Environment Centre's network events and planning meetings. He has also been involved in organising sound studies lecture series as well as co-ordinating and teaching on the postgraduate course Sound Studies in Theory and Practice.