Prof Abigail Gardner

Biography

I am Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. My key interests are in music, gender and ageing.

I am writing ‘Listening, Belonging and Memory’ (Bloomsbury, 2023) and have published ‘Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians’ (2019, Routledge), Aging Popular Music across Europe (Routledge, 2019 with Ros Jennings), PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (Ashgate, 2015), co-author and editor (with Ros Jennings) of Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2012).

I have led 3 European funded projects on digital storytelling, media literacy and migration and am involved in an AHRC project, ‘Music for Girls: Feminist Epistemologies of Popular Music’. I am Associate Editor of the Journal of The International Association of the Study of Popular Music.

Qualifications

• Tripos Part: Japanese, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge,, 1986
• BA (Hons): Japanese, SOAS, University of London, 1988
• MSocSci: Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, 1999
• PhD: Cultural Studies, University of Gloucestershire, *

Awards

2009 – Winner of University of Gloucestershire Public Engagement award for ‘Synagogue Lane’, a DVD of memories from Kindertransport survivors resident locally.

Membership of professional bodies

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Member of IASPM

Members of MeCCSa