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United Kingdom

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Educator, Scholar, Musician & Musicologist, Social and Cultural Historian (especially 19th and 20th centuries)

Profile Summary

Roger Hansford holds a PhD in Musicology (2014) from the University of Southampton. His current scholarly interests revolve around musical and literary romanticism, particularly music in nineteenth-century Britain, and he researches British social and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has taught on university music history courses and delivered research papers at conferences throughout the UK. His doctoral research was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, and he was awarded the Stephen Copley Research Award in 2020 by the British Association for Romantic Studies. He is a published author with Routledge and Oxford University Press. As well as being an academic reviewer and editor, he is a qualified school-teacher, a church musician, and a choral accompanist. He enjoys co-ordinating and developing adults to deliver public music performances and/or musical education. He also teaches young musicians aged 11-18 and is an advocate for music education, holding a strong interest in cognition and learning. He teaches online courses, available at https://arts-culture-school.thinkific.com/

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Research Methodology
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Leadership
• ☆ English Literature
• ☆ Publishing
• ☆ Music
• ☆ Music Theory
• ☆ Popular Music
• ☆ Music Education & Instruction
• ☆ Musicology
• ☆ Classical Music
• ☆ Organ
• ☆ Educational Administration
• ☆ Higher Education
• ☆ Liberal Arts Education
• ☆ English Education
• ☆ Literary History
• ☆ British Literature
• ☆ Social History
• ☆ Project Management

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Creative Writing, Newswriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Text Mining & Analytics

Work Experience

Classroom Teacher

Supply Teacher

September 2022 - Present

Head of Department

The Gregg School

January 2017 - August 2022

Teacher

Ryde Academy

November 2013 - August 2016

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of Southampton

October 2010 - March 2012

2nd in Department

St Peter's Catholic School

January 2006 - August 2009

Teacher

Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys

September 2004 - December 2005

Education

PhD Musicology and English Literature

University of Southampton

October 2010 - September 2013

MMus (Music)

University of Southampton

October 2009 - September 2010

PGCE Music (Education)

Canterbury Christ Church University

September 2003 - July 2004

BA 1st Class Honours (Music)

University of Southampton

October 2000 - July 2003

Certifications

• Organ Grade 5 - Distinction

  Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

  September 2022 - Present

• Piano Grade 8 - Distinction

  Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

  March 2000 - Present

Publications

OTHER

Roger Hansford (2023). Sounding Slavery in the Victorian Drawing Room: the ‘Blackface’ Ballads of Philip Klitz .

Roger Hansford(2017). Figures of the Imagination . Routledge

ONLINE RESOURCE

Romanticism, eds Duncan Wu, Jane Moore & John Strachan. Routledge Historical Resources: 2021. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/romanticism/ (accessed 06/11/2021) .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Roger Hansford(2021). The First Hampshire Volunteer Artillery “Fire Brigade” and Its Fire Occurrence Book for Southampton, 1894–1909 . International Journal of Regional and Local History. 16. (1). p. 39--65. Informa {UK} Limited