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Dr. Angela McArthur is a Lecturer in Designing Audio Experiences at the Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL), and is affiliated with UCL's School for Creative & Cultural Industries at the Stratford campus. She leads the interdisciplinary Master's programme 'Designing Audio Experiences' and serves as co-chair of the department's EDI committee since October 2024. Her work bridges art, technology, and anthropology with a focus on spatial sound's societal impact, championing diversity in access and representation through initiatives like Soundstack.
Her educational background includes a PhD supervised by Becky Stewart (Imperial College London) and Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London), and a Master's degree from the University of Kent's School of Music & Fine Art under Claudia Molitor and Sarah Turner.
Dr. McArthur's research centers on materiality in sound, underrepresented onto-epistemologies (including other-than-human), and ocean environments. She investigates spatial sound's aesthetic and ethical affordances through sound-led sensory ethnography with elderly Nepali wives/widows of Gurkha veterans, IKO loudspeaker-driven artist development, spatial sound for health/embodiment, and societal impact initiatives. Her work consistently addresses diversity and underrepresented perspectives.
Her publications reveal strong interdisciplinary trends spanning spatial audio technology, sound art ethics, and social impact. Recent work explores ambient intelligence in music ecology, ethical spatial practices, browser-based 3D audio implementation, and IKO's role in diversifying sound art. She also investigates auditory distance perception in cinematic VR and linguistic frameworks for spatial sound description.
Dr. McArthur has not listed any scientific awards.
As an educator, she founded Soundstack—an annual workshop/masterclass/concert series—and secured funding for UCL's IKO loudspeaker. She mentors through the 'Designing Audio Experiences' Master's programme and BBC Young Composers collaborations, where she re-arranged classical works for spatial audio. Her grant acquisition focuses on artist development resources and diversity initiatives.
She actively collaborates with the Ocean Memory Project (an international interdisciplinary collective exploring ocean memory), the University of Greenwich's IKO research group, and institutions like Graz's Institut für Elektronische Musik. Her residencies and fieldwork—from Venice soundscapes to Gurkha veteran communities—form dynamic research ecosystems integrating technology, ethnography, and artistic practice.
