Dr Matt Lawson is a musicologist and Senior Lecturer in Music at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where he has worked since 2017. A screen music specialist, Matt completed his PhD at Edge Hill University, with a thesis focusing on the music used in German
depictions of the Holocaust on screen. He is co-author of the general-interest book, 100 Greatest Film Scores (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), a number of articles and chapters on screen music, and is currently writing his second book. He is a keen advocate of outreach and widening participation, and enjoys speaking at schools and introducing young people to the wonderful world of film music.