Personal Statement
Jacqueline Waldock is a Lecturer in Music and Faculty Impact Fellow. She is a researcher with a specialism in sonic studies. Her research interests have centred around home, sonic place making and listening cultures, particular focussing on sound control and power. She has a particular interest in the role of sound and music in the health care settings and wellbeing. Prior to taking up her role in academic her career trajectory led her into the realm of consultancy and artistic work, specializing in community-engaged place-making practices. This path was marked by the production of several publicly funded artworks and compositions.Her compositions and sound installations have been based within urban communities and have been part of work with the Halle Orchestra, Foundation of Art and Creative Technology, Horsfall, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Tate amongst others.

Research Overview
My work is governed by a few interrelated questions: How are sounds perceived and performed differently in communities and according to axes of identity? How is the making of sound a terrain of power and a transformative force? My work has explored home and sonic place making in the context of COVID and urban development. I have also explored the role of sound in creating a sense of belonging and identity amongst marginalised groups. Most recently my work has sought to understand the role of sound and music in health context.

As academics we have the opportunity to do research that can “challenge policy; empower resistances; platform voices; nurturing new critical publics; and envision alternatives.”(Madchen 2019). My methodological work is formed on a basis of co-production, relational, two way forms of collaboration beyond the walls of the academy. My practice is rooted in a co-creation composition methodology that insists on the experiential expertise of those who dwell and traverse the sonic environmental space as an integral part of the artistic process.