The BFE Podcast Team are:

• Dr Matt Dicken (Bath Spa University), BFE Podcast Project Lead

Dr Matt Dicken is the Programme Leader for Music and a senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at Bath Spa University. His current research focuses on the Paraguayan polca and electronic music in Paraguay. In addition, Matt’s research interests connect with teaching and innovation in higher education and music in society. As Outreach/Podcast officer for the BFE, Matt has a strong interest in developing opportunities and visibility for ethnomusicological research. He also has expertise recording and producing a wide range of musical projects and works on many performance collaborations in Bristol and the Southwest.

• Thomas Graves (Durham University), BFE Podcast Manager

Thomas Graves holds a degree in Popular Music from the University of Kent and a master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from SOAS, University of London. He is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University studying musical emotion and qawwālī. His primary research interests lie in musical emotion, particularly in relation to lyrics, social context, and religion. His approach is multidisciplinary, with the aim of using ethnographic knowledge to inform psychological research in musical emotion, as well as adapting quantitative methods from music psychology to the ethnographic field.