RNCM Welcomes Four Visiting Researchers

We are delighted to welcome four distinguished visiting researchers whose work spans music history, music theory, performance, education, health and creative practice, further consolidating the RNCM’s dynamic research culture and community.

Professor Jeanice Brooks joins RNCM to continue her collaboration with Professor Wiebke Thormählen following their AHRC-funded project Music, Home and Heritage: Sounding the Domestic in Georgian Britain. Their work has helped pioneer new approaches to museum sound interpretation through the Hearing History project at Erddig, North Wales, while Professor Brooks is also completing a major monograph on music and domestic life around 1800.

Dr Olha Myronenko-Mikheishyna, a displaced musicologist and music theorist, joins the College to advance her project Lutosławski’s Creative Laboratory of Musical Time: From Early Experiments to Mature Innovations. Working with Professor Nick Reyland, her research offers fresh perspectives on the music of Witold Lutosławski and builds on a series of prestigious awards and international archival collaborations.

Internationally renowned violinist and scholar Peter Sheppard Skærved has renewed his Honorary Research Professorship with RNCM. Working across the School of Strings, the School of Composition and the Research Department, he will lead activities exploring performance practice and artistic ownership, including workshops and creative curatorial projects linked to the College’s Collection of Historic Musical Instruments.

Also joining the College is Dr Stephen Tatlow, whose interdisciplinary research spans music, sound, education and health. Following his doctoral research in music and sound for virtual reality at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Gloucestershire investigating whether natural sounds can improve mental wellbeing for older adult care home residents, he now leads and supports research activities at Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust. He specialises in data-driven research in education and health and is keen to explore how real-world data can help organisations address complex challenges in practice. He joins the College to collaborate with Dr Robert Gardiner on research into music education in the UK. His broader research interests include creative health, authenticity in sound and music, and music in contemporary media.

Together, these appointments reflect RNCM’s continued commitment to forging new connections and creating new opportunities for research innovation and collaboration across disciplines, institutions and communities.

15 July 2026