Short biography
Stan Hawkins is a musicologist, researching within the field of popular music studies. He has a background in musicology, composition, and analysis, with a main emphasis on interdisciplinary research. He started the first popular music and recording courses at the Music Department, Salford University, Manchester in 1990, where he was Director of the Popular Music Research Unit from 1992-1995. He took up his current post in this department in 1995, establishing courses in popular music. Stan has long experience as a teacher, researcher, and editor, and has supervised over 20 doctoral students in popular music at Oslo University, Agder University, and the Norwegian Academy of Music, as well as international students. He has been series editor (with Professor Derek Scott and then Professor Lori Burns) for Routledge's Popular and Folk Music Series, which has included over 100 publications within popular music studies. In addition to leading various national and international projects, he has been guest researcher at City University London and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Research specialisms include gender, identity politics, critical musicology, and audiovisual research, with four international monographs, six edited collections, and numerous chapter contributions and articles. He has been leader of Nordic Sounds: Critical Music Research Group and has led a state funded project (2010-2014) Popular Music and Gender in a Transcultural Context, and was key member of the development team for the Centre of Excellence RITMO. In 2017 he was elected member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and took early retirement in 2022.
Home page: http://www.stanhawkins.net
Education, Employment, and Residencies
- Bachelor of Music (4 years), University of Natal, South Africa
- Postgraduate/MA (2 years), State Academy of Music, Frankfurt, Germany
- Doctor of Philosophy in Music Composition (3 years), University of York, England
- Senior Lecturer, University of Salford, Manchester (1989-95)
- Director of Popular Music Research Unit, University of Salford (1992-95)
- Professor of Popular Music, University of Oslo (since 1995)
- Guest residency (2002), City University, London
- Guest residency (2012), Humboldt University, Germany
- Adjunct professor, University of Agder, Norway (since 2006)
Areas of teaching and supervision
- Popular Musicology
- Music Analysis and Recording Aesthetics
- Cultural Studies and Music Sociology
- LGBTQ and Queer Studies
- Music Analysis
- Audiovisual Interpretation
- Film and TV Theory
Current academic activities
Co-authored article with Zack Bresler on Björk: https://‘A Swarm of Sound’ Audiovisual Immersion in Björk’s VR Video ‘Family’






