Simon McKerrell is a Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and has previously worked at the Universities of Newcastle, Sheffield, Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is interested in the social impact of music. His current research focuses upon music in the creative economy in rural areas, and he has published widely on the understanding and agency of traditional music and people who make, consume, distribute, promote and share music. He is the author of Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Routledge), and the Co-Editor of both Music as Multimodal Discourse: Media, Power and Protest (Bloomsbury) and Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition, Modernity (Routledge).

In addition to this, he is a world-renowned performer of Scottish Highland and Irish Uilleann pipes. He has recorded 12 albums and toured throughout the world. Some of his music can be heard here. If you would like to get in touch with Simon, please contact him here.