Research Records #33 Professor Marie Kinsey Interviews Professor Fay Hield
The podcast exploring Sheffield academic's professional and personal journeys alongside their own soundtrack to academic adventure.
Our latest guest is not only a university professor, researcher and teacher, but a writer and performer. In fact she says that one day she’d thought she’d get a proper job - yet somehow singing in a pub miraculously came together as a career.
Fay Hield is Professor of Ethnomusicology Music in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield. She’s an award winning writer, interpreter and performer of folk music and one of the country’s leading researchers into why folk music is important to people. She started teaching at Sheffield in 2011 - one reason she joined this university was because of how easy it is to get to other parts of the country for gigs. But here she has found a thriving, welcoming and most importantly collaborative research community that has inspired her research in both theoretical and practical ways.