Dr Matt Grimes is a Senior Lecturer in Music Industries and Radio at the Birmingham Department of English and Media. Matt’s research and research interests include anarcho-punk and DiY punk scenes; ageing within popular music scenes; popular music memory and nostalgia; DiY music cultures/subcultures and scenes; music industries entrepreneurship and innovation. Matt has a number of publications in those research fields including his most recent book Punk, Ageing and Time co edited with Dr Laura Way and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024. Matt is General Secretary of the Punk Scholars Network and sits on the editorial board for The Punk Scholars Press and Associate Editor for the Punk and Post-Punk journal. Matt teaches across a number of programmes in the Birmingham School of Media and co-leads the BA (Hons) Music Business degree, including evaluating and developing courses, as well as networking with industry and external stakeholders. He is currently developing and managing internal and external student employability and industry engagement projects.
See all of Matt’s BCMCR research posts here.
