Profile
Biography
Dr. Stewart Campbell has over 15 years of leadership experience in the music, creative, and cultural industries. Throughout his career, Stewart has steered artistic programmes and cultural organisations within the UK's arts, higher education, and voluntary sectors.
Drawing from numerous executive leadership and senior management roles, Stewart contributes to his teaching and research a wealth of expertise in strategy, leadership and governance, artistic programming, corporate finance and fundraising, marketing and audience development, and human resource management.
Stewart earned a Bachelor's degree in Music from the University of Sheffield and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Open University Business School. He is a Chartered Manager with the Chartered Management Institute, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and holds PRINCE2 Project Management accreditation. Stewart’s PhD research, titled 'Songs Without Borders' from the University of Birmingham, was supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant and focused on classical music audiences and the management of music festivals. Stewart’s current teaching and research interests encompass music management theory and practice, leadership within the music industries, music organisation studies, the creative workforce, and the dynamics of live music audiences and reception.
Outside of Higher Education, Stewart works as a professional singer and has performed regularly with a number of cathedral choirs across the UK, including currently with the Choir of York Minster.
Research
Overview
Stewart’s research draws upon his experience in cultural leadership and music management, alongside work and training as a professional singer. Specific research interests include:
- Organising in the music industries and music organisation studies
- Music management practice
- Live music audiences
- Qualitative research methods to study music as a lived experience
- Song studies, and vocal music and art forms that combine music and text
Research proposals are welcomed from prospective students in any of the above areas.
Current PhD students include:
Yufan Wang: Western Opera in Contemporary Mainland China: Reception and Reform
Teaching
Postgraduate
Stewart teaches and contributes towards several programmes across the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, in the areas of music and creative industries management, leadership, and business administration. Current teaching and supervision work includes:
- Principles of Music Management (module leader, MA in Music, Management and Marketing)
- Events Management (in the MA in Creative and Cultural Industries Management)
- Leadership and Management in Music Education (in the MA in Music Education)
Publications
Selected publications
Selected research outputs include:
- Stewart Campbell, ‘“But Heck Isn’t That the Point? Art Song Is Representative of Life in Its Wildest, Messiest Sense” – Complex Interpretative Song Worlds and the Audiences That Inhabit Them’, Participations 20, no. 2 (2024).
- Campbell, S., 2024. ‘Complex Interpretative Song Worlds’, in Lazaroms, I (ed.) Song Studies: Approaches and Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (In press).
- Campbell, S., 2024. ‘Extracting Sound and Text Transformed: Digital Disruptors in Art Song in Translation’, Art Song Platform, Goldsmiths University of London, 1 March February.
- Campbell, S., 2023. “Oh for Heaven’s Sake, Do I Need to Explain This Really?” Translation Skopoi in Live Art Song Concerts. Translation Review, 116 (1), pp.1-12.
- Campbell, S., 2022. Songs without Borders: Complex Interpretative Song Worlds and the Audiences that Inhabit Them (Doctoral dissertation, University of Birmingham)
- Campbell, S., 2022. ‘Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Researching Songs as Live Events’, Empirical Approaches to Song Analysis, Goldsmiths University of London, 12 February.
- Campbell, S., 2021. ‘Investigating Audience Experience of Live Art Song in the UK’, Spheres of Singing. An interdisciplinary conference on singing and song, University of Glasgow, 4 – 5 November.
- Campbell, S., 2019. ‘Social DistanSong’, Art Song Platform, Goldsmiths University of London, 12 February.
- Campbell, S., 2019. ‘Songs Without Borders’, Across the Live/Mediatised Divide: A Cross-disciplinary Audience Research Conference, University of York, 17 September.
