Dr Angela Shepherd

Dr Angela Shepherd is a Senior Lecturer of Music at the University of West London. Angela comes to us with experience in a wide range of higher education institutions and within the music industry, including the University of Hong Kong, the University of Nottingham, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, Manchester Metropolitan University, Opera North Education and the Naxos Classical Record Label.

Her pedagogy of undergraduate and postgraduate studies to date has focused upon the design and delivery of modules ranging from historical musicology, music theory and analysis, performance practice, film music, opera and musical exoticism, to community arts practices and musical theatre research. Beyond academia, she has been commissioned by entities both inside and outside the education sector to design and deliver music and movement workshops in a variety of community settings, ranging from schools and specialist centres to care homes and hospitals.

She has also been a guest lecturer at the Institute of Ageing and Dementia at UWL, and her PhD supervision has encompassed projects at the London College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, among others.

Alongside pedagogical concerns, her research interests have included publications on twentieth-century opera and visual arts, creative and digital technologies, designing and delivering a number of music and healthcare projects and presentations of the same in national and international conferences, as well as national media.