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My name is Timo Koren and I am now an Assistant Professor in Cultural Economy in the Cultural Studies department.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Cultural Studies and Urban Studies. These last six years my research has mainly focused on the night-time economy. My PhD, obtained at the University of Southampton in 2021, focused on cultural production in Amsterdam-based nightclubs. Through this angle, I aimed to understand how nightclub’s production practices not only inscribe racialised, gendered, and classed meanings onto genres, but also continuously rework these meanings. I am interested in how urban musical economies function as nodes in the global flows of music genres and musical knowledge, and how these economies are impacted by urban dynamics such as regulation, gentrification, and urban regeneration.