I am Professor and Head of the School of Arts, joining York St John University in October 2022. I am also a Visiting Professor of Artistic Research at Lulea Technical University in Sweden (since 2020). I am a musician, trumpeter, singer, musicologist and educational researcher, with a particular interest in: 1. gender and leadership, 2. inclusive music education, 3. collaboration between music, dance, drama, theatre, design, fashion magazines and sculpture, 4. music and translation, a field which explores the cultural communication of the performing arts. Previously, I was School Head of Department of Performing Arts and Associate Professor of Music at Kingston University London, during which time I was also the Aurora Champion, TECHNE Training Lead for Doctoral Students, EDI LQBTQ+ subgroup lead, university level Athena Swan subgroup lead for self-assessment, and faculty subgroup lead for anti-bullying, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination. Prior to that, I was Head of the Department of Music also at Kingston University. I was Programme Director for Music and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research. I began my academic career as part time lecturer in Music at Lancaster University. I am founder (2019) and previous co-chair (2020-2022) of EDI Music Studies Network, and previous chair/vice chair of Music HE (formerly NAMHE, National Association for Music in Higher Education, 2012-2022) sitting on the committee for 10 years. I've also previously been chair of Kingston Choral Society (2015-2018) and Administrative Secretary of the Society for Dance Research (2006-2010). I have received funding for my research, including: AHRC Network, Women's Musical Leadership Online Network (January 2022- November 2023) and AHRC Network, Translating Music (2013-2014). In addition, I was co-PI for Taking Race Live, funded by the office for fair access (2014-2018), for which we won the Rose Award for "Teaching, Learning and Assessment and Research" (2016) and we were nominated and became a CATE (Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence) Finalist of AdvanceHE (2017), and I latterly won the Student Award for Employability at Kingston University, Student Union Awards (2021). I enjoy an active creative and research life, which in most instances directly connects to my research and professional practice. I have published a number of books: Music, Text and Translation (2013); Building Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Bridges: Where Theory Meets Research and Practice, co-edited with Pamela Burnard, Valerie Ross, Kimberly Powell, Tatjana Dragovic and Elizabeth Mackinlay (2016); Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician, co-edited with Laura Watson (2019); Artistic Research in Performance Through Collaboration, co-written and co-edited with Martin Blain (2020); Music, Dance and Translation (in press); The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: the nineteenth century and beyond, co-edited with Laura Hamer (forthcoming 2023); and The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology, co-edited with Simon Morrison and Samuel Dorf (forthcoming 2024). Articles have appeared in Tibon (2021), London Review of Education (2017, 2019), Choreologica, European Association of Dance Historians (2013), Cahiers de la Société quebecoise de recherche en musique (2012), Ars Lyrica (2011), Dance Research (2009), Opera Quarterly (2006). Book chapters have appeared (in addition to the above books) in Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (2022), The Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions Translating across Signs, Bodies and Values (2022), Opera in Translation: Diversity and Unity (2019), Translation and Multimodality Beyond Words (2019), Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture (2017), Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Arts Theory, Research and Practice (2016), Sound Music and the Moving-Thinking Body (2013), Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature (2013), Bewegungen zwischen Horen und Sehen: Denkbewegungen uber Bewegungskunste (2012), La musique française: esthétique et identité en mutation 1892–1992 (2012). I have also published many score prefaces, programme notes, book reviews, audio papers, conference proceedings, conference reports and consultation reports. I have broadcast on BBC Radio, including BBC Radio 3 (Proms 2021) and ABC Australia (2015), and I run my own Hospital Radio Show weekly, Helen’s Classical Journey, Radio Wey (since March 2020). I’ve also made films and been part of documentaries concerning my research on the inclusive curriculum and on the performance approach, Soundpainting.