Centre for Cultural Policy Research

Professor Simon Frith

Simon Frith has been Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh since 2006, moving there from the University of Stirling, where he was a Professor of Film and Media. He is a sociologist with a particular interest in music policy, which he has researched as both an academic and a journalist for many years. He has published widely and is the author of Performing Rites (1996). His policy research includes the co-authored Mapping the Music Industry in Scotland (2003), prepared for Scottish Enterprise. Simon was a co-investigator of the AHRC-funded study of creativity in policy and practice based at CCPR and he is currently principal investigator of an AHRC-funded research project on the live music sector in Britain. He is a participant in the Centre's Policy Conversations.