Department of Music

Charlotte Schuitenmaker

Key information

Department
Department of Music
Qualifications
BA, MA, rMA (University of Amsterdam)
Email address
687587@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Sounding First Nations Storytelling in Sydney, Australia
Internal Supervisors
Professor Rachel Harris

Biography

Charlotte's current Ph.D. research project at SOAS is titled “Sounding First Nations Movements in Sydney, Australia”, for which she holds a Bloomsbury Colleges Ph.D. Studentship. 

Key themes in this project are urban community issues, Indigenous rights, space-making, soundscape projects, and environmentalism. 

As part of her research project, she set up the podcast “Movements & Sounds”, which received funding as part of the Santander Enterprise Seed Fund scheme. See more on movementsandsounds.com. Charlotte is also associate editor at SEM Student News, the postgraduate research student journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 

She obtained her BA and MA in (Ethno-)Musicology and rMA in Art Studies, at the University of Amsterdam. During these studies, she went on exchanges to Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Horizon Scholarship.

Research interests

Charlotte’s research interests  are (Ethno)musicology, Indigenous studies, and Environmentalism

 

Publications

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