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 explores how shifts in Black British music cultures—from Jungle and Garage to Grime—map broader social, political, and cultural transformations. Through an audiovisual approach, she investigates listening as a cultural, social, and historical practice, examining how sound carries memory, identity, and historical experience across time. Drawing together archival research, oral histories, and audiovisual methods, her work explores how montage, juxtaposition, and sound-image relationships can generate new ways of engaging with Black British histories, cultural memory, and collective belonging.

Across her research, teaching, and public-facing work, Cheraine is interested in creating more participatory and engaged forms of knowledge production. Whether in the classroom, through podcasting, public speaking, or cultural criticism, her work seeks to bridge scholarly and public conversations, encouraging audiences to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively about culture, politics, and representation.