At Durham University, I designed an observational study of everyday music listening and the emotional episodes it evokes. I used experience sampling and repeated participant responses to examine context, agency, personality, and episode intensity.
For my master’s dissertation, I developed a QR-code recruitment approach, collected data in Qualtrics, and analysed responses using mixed-effects models in R. I found that broad location categories did not capture the different functions music served for listeners, and recommended more activity-specific questions and qualitative methods.
My BA dissertation examined how exposure, familiarity, and perceptual fluency affect preferences for culturally unfamiliar sounds. I designed an online behavioural study comparing responses to gamelan and piano excerpts, and analysed the data in JASP; I also co-led a qualitative study of nonverbal communication in an amateur string quartet.
I’ve communicated research through a publication, a conference panel, and a short documentary explaining the Emotional Episode Model through diary accounts. At Go Ape, I completed daily safety checks, maintained and repaired equipment, and adapted safety briefings for different groups.
