Georgina Born attended Godolphin and Latymer School then Purcell School in London and Dartington Hall School in Devon.
21 Facts About Georgina Born
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Georgina Born studied the cello and piano at the Royal College of Music in London, and performed classical and modern music including stints with the Michael Nyman Band, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and the Flying Lizards.
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Georgina Born studied for a year at the Chelsea School of Art.
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Henry Cow was in a period of intensive touring and Georgina Born toured Europe with the group for two years.
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Georgina Born's playing is prominent on Westbrook's album, The Cortege.
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Georgina Born recorded with The Raincoats, and played improvised music with Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford, David Toop and others as a member of the London Musicians' Collective.
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Georgina Born had a walk-on part in Sally Potter's film The Gold Diggers.
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Georgina Born studied completed an anthropology degree and then PhD at University College London.
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Georgina Born moved to a lectureship in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths' College for 8 years.
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Georgina Born obtained a lectureship in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
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In 2010 Georgina Born was awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for a major programme of research on the transformation of music by digital media.
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Georgina Born returned to UCL, where she edited and co-wrote Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology.
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Georgina Born uses ethnography to study cultural production, particularly music, television and information technologies, and is a leading exponent both of institutional ethnography and of anthropology's application to the critical study of Western modernity.
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Georgina Born is an international authority on computer music and musical modernism in the twentieth century, and on contemporary media policy, the BBC and public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Europe.
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Georgina Born argues that this resulted from a combination of the imposition of neo-liberal policies and wider changes in the British and international broadcasting ecology.
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Georgina Born has subsequently written both policy interventions and normative essays on the changing nature of public service broadcasting with the advent of digital media.
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Georgina Born was invited in 2005 to give written and oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on BBC Charter Review, and has lectured to public service broadcasters in Europe and Australia as well as to broadcasting and journalist trade unions in Britain and Europe.
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Between 2004 and 2006 Georgina Born was involved in research on interdisciplinarity in knowledge and cultural production, in which she carried out case studies of the use of ethnography by the IT industry, and on art-science and new media art.
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Georgina Born has published a number of papers in scientific journals, including Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Journal of Material Culture, Screen, Cultural Values, Javnost, The Political Quarterly, Media, Culture and Society, New Formations and Twentieth Century Music.
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Georgina Born is on the editorial boards of Anthropological Theory, Cultural Sociology and New Media and Society, and has been on the editorial boards of Popular Music, Free Associations and Journal of the Royal Musical Society.
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Georgina Born was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to musicology, anthropology, and higher education.