Cheraine Donalea Scott, Ph.D., earned her doctorate from New York University. Her doctoral research examined Grime as a countercultural force and explored its role in youth-led political expression during the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections. More broadly, her work investigates the radical potential of Black cultural innovation and its impact on everyday social life in Britain, particularly through the interplay of sound and visual culture.

Her current research investigates how Black British music carries cultural memory across time, developing genre as a form of conjunctural analysis through the relationships between Jungle, Garage and Grime. Alongside this, she is developing social listening (first outlined in her doctoral research) as a critical methodology and practice-based inquiry into how music registers shifts in social feeling, historical pressure and cultural possibility. Through audiovisual and curatorial practice, she extends this methodology by exploring how listening can generate encounters with cultural memory, affect and historical resonance.

Across her research, teaching and creative practice, Cheraine is interested in creating encounters that invite new ways of seeing, listening and thinking. Whether in the classroom, through audiovisual work, podcasting or public scholarship, she develops spaces where uncertainty, resonance and experimentation become productive methods for generating knowledge.