The following is an example of some of the research carried out between 1993 and 1996, mostly relating to the fields of popular music, music technology and music in Wales. The work was carried out as part of the BA(Hons) Music/Popular Music course at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Popular Music.

• In what ways has the use of pop music in films helped integrate the otherwise separate artforms of film and music video? (1996)
  Presented as a research project for the Music for Film & the Arts module, the paper features reviews of contemporary and recent movies and music videos.
  
  
• Most of the research on music video is curiously silent about the music
  
  
• The development of the synchronization of sound and image
  
  
• Feminist discourse in the lives and songs of the blues women of the 1920s
  Presented as an essay for the History of Popular Music module, the paper analyses the lives and songs of the most influential blues women of the 1920s, including Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.
  
  
• The sampler versus the music industry: the case for the defence
  
  
• The struggle for survival in the Welsh rock scene in the 1990s
  
  
• Welsh traditional music and the geographical distribution of the welsh speech community