Dr Férdia Stone-Davis

Biography

Férdia Stone-Davis received a BA in Theology and Religious Studies, an MPhil in Philosophy of Religion and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She also has an MMus in Early Music Performance Studies from Trinity College of Music, London (now Trinity Laban).

Férdia is currently senior scientist on a three-year research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (University of Graz, from January 2022): ‘The Epistemic Power of Music: On the Idea and History of Artistic Research through Music’. She is Director of Research at the Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge (currently on research leave), and a postdoctoral bye-fellow of Murray Edwards, Cambridge. She is Director of Studies in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion and the Foundation Year Director of Studies at Murray Edwards College. She is the Chair of the Royal Music Association Music and Philosophy Study Group.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Musicology at the University of Göttingen, Germany between 2012 and 2015 and has taught in departments of music, philosophy and theology at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College, London.