Shzr Ee Tan

Shzr Ee Tan is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music, School of Performing and Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London. She combines ethnomusicology with performance studies, focusing on decolonial frameworks and EDI (Equality, Diversity, Inclusion) in sound studies and the performing arts. Her work bridges digital inequalities, climate change, multispecies thinking, and precarity in Southeast Asian and Sinophone contexts.

Research Interests

• Decolonial approaches to music and education
• Intersection of race, digitality, and geopolitics
• Acoustic regimes of labor in transient communities
• Transnational Sinophone music practices
• EDI policy implementation in arts institutions

Scientific Awards

• Keynote: Bad Faith, Wilful Misunderstanding and Good Conversations: Challenges in Decolonising Music (2022)
• Keynote Speech at IFM Conference, Helsinki (2025)
• Keynote Speech on Digital Inequalities and Global Sounds (2020)
• Keynote on Stumbling our way through sounded and performed collaborations (2024)

Trends in Recent Publications: Her work critically examines labor precarity, digital marginalization, and decolonial pedagogy, often linking musical practices to UN Sustainable Development Goals like climate action and reduced inequalities.

Grants and Projects: She has secured funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for projects like Acoustic Regimes of Transient Workers (2023-2024) and Radical Aunties (2022-2024). Her work frequently intersects with UN SDGs, particularly in labor equity and climate change.