Dr Liam Maloney
Lecturer
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Profile
Biography
Liam Maloney graduated in Sound Technology from Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (BA Hons 2007). He began lecturing in further education, specialising in audio production and electronic music composition. During this time, he achieved an MSc in Music & Creative Industries Management with distinction from the University of Bolton (2011), with his dissertation examining the dissemination of taste after the digital revolution winning the Vice-Chancellor’s award for “outstanding academic achievement”. He undertook his doctoral work in the Music Research Centre at the University of York (2014-2020). His PhD, titled ‘Music Like Water: Exploring the Functions of Music Through Thematic Bibliometric Analysis and Comparative ESM Study’, supervised by Dr Jez Wells and Dr Catherine Laws, and was examined by Professor John Sloboda. He was awarded a Humanities Research Doctoral Fellowship for his doctoral work (2018).
His postdoctoral work, a joint venture between the Digital Creativity Labs and the Department of Music at the University of York for the ‘Musical Creativity and Emotional Content’ project (2020) concerned the development of real-time emotional expression prediction embedded within music sequencing systems.
In addition to this his sonic practice has seen him work with, support, remix, and play alongside many electronic musicians including Pendulum, Imogen Heap, Dom & Roland, DJ Fresh, Ruby, and Andrew Weatherall. His performed or presented work at the Bridgewater Hall, the Festival of Ideas, the Royal Institution, the People’s History Museum, LGBTQ+ History Month, BBC One, BBC Radio 2, and numerous festivals, clubs, and galleries.
School Roles
- Music Technology Internships Manager
