The Musicology Research Group pursues cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scholarship on music and dance across all genres, eras, and geographical contexts. It works across sub-fields of music studies (including, but not limited to, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, opera studies, choreography, music analysis, jazz studies, music and dance education, drama and theatre studies, music psychology, choreomusicology, opera studies, movement and health) and draws perspectives from a range of neighbouring disciplines (such as history, literature, anthropology, psychology, media studies, intangible cultural heritage studies, environmental humanities).

At the core of our work stand music, performance, musicians and dancers, musical genres and traditions, recordings, scores, cultural institutions, music technologies, concert venues, cultural activists, media platforms, instruments, voice, and music and dance in everyday human life. We employ a broad range of methods and methodologies, including historical method, archival work, artistic and performance-based research, ethnography, hermeneutic analysis, interviews, recording and production analysis, participatory action research, and score-based analysis.

Through our work we also address a whole range of timely issues, such as music and media, citizenship, musical taste, climate change, Indigenous rights, ecology, musicking, health and well-being, LGBTQ+ rights, sustainability, and the politics of class, gender, and race. Locating music within these wider historical and cultural contexts, group members are concerned to analyse music as an aesthetic phenomenon that is also an active agent in shaping the wider social world.

In structured as well as informal settings, group members engage in various discussions on topics both within, adjacent to and outside of their own fields of expertise, creating a productive and inspiring academic community.