Dr Richard Bramwell

Dr Richard Bramwell joined the Institute in 2013. He is currently a Senior Research Associate and the principal investigator on the AHRC funded project Performing hip-hop Englishness: The performance of alternative British identities through rap. This research project focuses on the circulation of rap culture within and beyond social and penal institutions and the impact of rap performances on British identities. Richard is a specialist in the sociology of culture, with a research focus on black British literary and vernacular cultures. Richard's book, UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City, examines the aesthetic, cultural and commercial practices of working-class youths in London’s rap music scenes.