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Last updated 18th April 2024

Gabrielle Kielich is a Senior Research Fellow in Music and is currently working on The Amplification Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust International Professor Scheme. She is a popular music scholar with research interests in live music and touring, the history and culture of British punk and rock music, gender and popular music, music and everyday life, and qualitative interviewing. 

Previously, Kielich was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie/UKRI-funded Senior Research Fellow and worked on a postdoctoral project that examined the impact of online spaces on women’s electric guitar practice and the factors that enable and motivate women to become electric guitarists. The project consisted of four stages: an extensive literature review, magazine analysis, social media analysis, and in-depth interviews. She is currently writing a book for Routledge that further develops aspects of the project.

Kielich is the author of The Road Crew: Live Music and Touring (Routledge, 2024). The book is an in-depth study of road crews and their working lives on concert tours. Her work has also been published in the edited collection Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals (Taylor & Francis, 2021) and she was a co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 12, Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa (Bloomsbury, 2019).

In addition to her role as a researcher, Kielich has given guest lectures in modules in the department of Media, Humanities and the Arts. She has also been a Course Lecturer at McGill University, where she taught courses on the history of communication.

She has been actively involved in service and leadership roles in the university as the co-chair of the Popular Music Studies Research Group for the 2023–2024 academic year, a member of the Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team, and completed the Aurora programme in 2024.

Kielich has PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University, a Master of Arts in Music and Culture and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Carleton University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Aquinas College.

Outside of academia, she has a background in journalism and was the Editor-in-Chief and the Entertainment Editor for regional magazines in the United States focused primarily on music and culture.