Dr Thomas Studley

Biography

Tom is a Lecturer in Creative Practice and the First Year Student Coordinator for the School of Creative Arts.  He has a keen interest in interactive music, games and playful environments. His practice-based research explores how digital games can support real-time music creation experiences, uniting perspectives from computer music, game studies, sound art, ludomusicology and human-computer interaction.

Tom has expertise in designing and evaluating gamified systems for accessible, user-driven music generation which he has published and presented internationally. His research interests extend to video game music, mobile music, audiovisual performance, gamified audience participation and immersive environments.

Tom maintains a diverse teaching portfolio reflecting his interdisciplinary interests. Since 2018, he has delivered undergraduate and postgraduate units spanning topics of music creation and production, sound in film and games, interactive art, extended reality and creative careers. Tom now contributes across the core units in the Bachelor of Creative Arts while also working to advance specialist learning in non-linear music, extended reality, and creative technologies.

Tom received a Ph.D. in Music (2021) from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Outside of his academic work, Tom has composed and produced original music for non-linear media including educational mobile apps and web-based games.