Catherine Grant

(she/her)

Catherine Grant researches the links between cultural sustainability and matters of social justice. Her second book "Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice through Music"—written in collaboration with creative practitioners around the world—was published by Oxford University Press in late 2025. Catherine leads an international research team in a Worldwide Universities Network project that explores how people can best be supported to maintain cultural practices in contexts of forced displacement.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Associate professor, Griffith University

Education

  • 2012 
    Griffith University, Doctor of Philosophy (Chancellor's Medal)

Publications

  • 2025
    Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice through Music, Oxford University Press
  • 2014
    Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help, Oxford University Press

Research Areas

  • Musicology And Ethnomusicology (190409)
  • Heritage And Cultural Conservation (210202)

Contact Catherine for

  • General
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  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision