Dr Veronica Skrimsjö

An adopted Liverpudlian, I completed my BA (Hons) and MA in Popular Music at the University of Liverpool before being awarded a scholarship at Liverpool Hope University to complete my PhD in Popular Music. I am based at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), where I predominantly teach popular music studies and music business.

My research is primarily concerned with record collecting and collecting cultures, materiality and aesthetics. One of the main aims of my research is to highlight how diverse and active popular music fandom and consumption is. I have a clear focus on the listener and reader-response theories, questioning meta-narratives and exploring hidden histories. I am currently working on a new monograph on record collecting in the 21st Century.