Current teaching responsibilities, University of Salford: supervision of ten research students, one undergraduate module (Alternative Media, year 3)- 2005- Director, CCM Research Centre, MediaCityUK, Salford
- 2007-14 AHRC Peer Review College member, Media, Music
- 2010 one-year sabbatical, Spasticus: Popular Music and Disability, AHRC Research Leave Award (£37,594) to write a monograph
- 2010-12 Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), elected executive committee member
- 2011- Salford, REF2014 submission leader, unit of assessment D36
2010- Salford, college advisor, Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy university-wide ‘theme’- 2010-12 Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities EU HERA Award (€1m), part of Salford research team
- 2010-13 MA External Examiner, Bradford Media School, University of Bradford
- 2010-13 BA Media Studies External Examiner, University of East London
- 2011 MeCCSA2011 annual conference, lead organiser, Salford, January
- 2011 Member, organising committee, Rhythm Changes Jazz and National Identities conference, University of Amsterdam, September
- 2011 AHRC Connected Communities programme, award holder (£26,773) to produce a scoping study, published in October: Community Music: History and Current Practice, its Constructions of ‘Community’, Digital Turns and Future Soundings
- 2012 lead organiser, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM UK & Ireland) biennial conference, Salford: Imagining Communities Musically: Putting Popular Music in its Place
- 2012-13 AHRC Connected Communities programme, co-investigator: Community Gardening, Creativity and Everyday Culture (£79, 588)
Alternative Media class, discussing subvertising, March 2011
