Julianne Oc
About the researcher
Julianne Oc is a songwriter, recording artist, poet and practice-researcher based in Warwickshire. She has released two albums with Universal Production Music, with sync placements across the globe including Disney, BBC, ITV and Discovery Channel, and has performed at venues including Moseley Folk Festival main stage. Alongside her research at Falmouth University, she works as a Postgraduate Specialist Mentor and Guest Lecturer at BIMM University, and designs and delivers community-facing creative workshops, including the ACE-funded Invisible Women programme.
Research interests
Re-Sounding Her Voice: Songwriting and Performance as Matriofeminist Praxis explores songwriting and vocal performance as acts of creative resistance and self-recovery within patriarchal structures. Using autoethnography as a method, it researches the reclamation of voice as a woman within and beyond contemporary popular music culture.
Research interests include:
- Practice Research
- Feminist praxis
- Songwriting and performance as praxis
- Autoethnography as method
- Embodied knowledge and its codification
- Creative self-recovery
Related Projects
Invisible Women (2025), an ACE-funded creative workshop programme supporting women to access and express their creative and personal voice, conceived, designed and delivered in dialogue with the research. Participants reported transformative shifts in confidence, self-expression and the reclamation of spoken, sonic and metaphoric voice.
Abstract
Thesis title
Re-Sounding Her Voice: Songwriting and Performance as Matriofeminist Praxis
Abstract
My practice research PhD uses songwriting, vocal and compositional practice as its primary methodology, employing autoethnography as method to research the experience of creating, resisting and reclaiming voice within patriarchal popular music culture. The album Outcast Songs of Rebellion (Universal Production Music, 2025) forms the core artefact for the study. Drawing on feminist theory and embodied knowledge, the research positions the act of making songs not merely as artistic output, but as a form of feminist praxis.
A further strand is concerned with how embodied knowledge can be captured, articulated and made transferable. This forms an original contribution to practice research methodology emerging from the autoethnographic and matriofeminist approach cultivated throughout the research.
Qualifications
| Year | Qualification | Awarding body |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | BA Hons Songwriting first class | University of Sussex |
| 2012 | PTLLS Preparing to Teach in the Life-Long Learning Sector | University of Wolverhampton |
Areas of expertise
- Practice research supervision
- Songwriting and composition
- Contemporary music performance and creation
- Women in music
- Creative practice pedagogy
- Matriofeminism
- Autoethnography as method in music practice