Dr Ruth Dockwray
Associate Professor
Biography
Ruth is an Associate Professor of Popular Music and programme leader for the BA Popular Music Performance programme at the University of Chester. As a musicologist, she regularly delivers papers at conferences and was most recently the Keynote Speaker for the 'New Perspectives in Popular Music Research: Changes and Turmoil' Conference at the University of Agder, in Norway. Her media work includes contributions to BBC Radio 4, BBC 2 and BBC 4 programmes, discussing the musicological features of a range of popular music. In addition to delivering modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, she undertakes advisory work for Universities including the Open University and is the external examiner for the BA (Hons) Popular and Commercial Music course at the University of South Wales.
Teaching and Supervision
Ruth teaches across the Music Production and Popular Music Performance programmes, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, delivering a range of practical, historical and analysis modules. She is also a PhD co-supervisor (dissertation on gender and heavy metal).
Research and Knowledge Exchange
As a musicologist, Ruth's research covers aspects of musicology of production, focusing on proxemics and sonic spatialisation in the context of popular music recordings and music for video games. Her PhD thesis focussed on rock anthems with a range of her work and public engagement discussing and analysing the recorded and live aspects of the music of Queen.