Jill Halstead is Professor of Music at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, where she also leads the Grieg Research School in Interdisciplinary Music Studies, a doctoral research consortium of five universities on Norway’s west coast. Her published work often examines how gender intersects with other identities to shape creative practices, as well as access to and participation in music.

She has specialised in interdisciplinary projects with marginalised communities, most recently including participatory work with elders, and composing music for film and dance theatre works addressing the social stigmatisation of ageing and dis/ability. Since 2018 she has collaborated with Brandon LaBelle on the artistic research project Social Acoustics, which explores listening as a social practice. She currently leads Music4Change, an Erasmus+ funded project focused on social and environmental sustainability in music research and education, and Gender, Technology, Participation, a transdisciplinary project addressing equity and representation in music and sound technologies.