Education
October 2005 - present
PhD Research Degree in Cultural Tradition
NATCECT & Department of Music, University of Sheffield

September 2001 – June 2005
BMus (hons) Folk and Traditional Music (1st class)
Department of Music, Newcastle University

Conference papers and academic presentations
June 2008
‘Inside the Insider: An ethnomusicologist being their own field of research’ The 9th Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) conference ‘Transcending “European Heritages”: Liberating the ethnological Imagination’ University of Ulster.

October 2007
‘Professionals are people too: The impacts of professionalism on participants in an amateur folk singing community’  Sempre Conference ‘Musical Participation’, University of Sheffield.

October 2005
‘Signifyin(g) with music: Using sound to comment’ 10th Research Seminar in European Ethnology ‘Music and Cultural Mediation’, University of Sheffield.

November 2005
‘My Voice: Singing in everyday life’ Traditional Song Forum, The SAGE, Gateshead.

Directorships
2000-2007 Three’s Company Music Ltd
2003-2006 Yorkshire Dales Workshops
1998-2000 Haworth Arts Festival

Current Memberships
Traditional Song Forum
EFDSS
SEMPRE

Recordings
2007   Right Wantonly A-Mumming : Sharron Kraus and Friends
2005   Hell’s Belles : The Witches of Elswick
2003   Out of Bed : The Witches of Elswick