Phil Dodds is a Researcher in Musicology and Director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University. He currently works on the Swedish Research Council-funded project Musical Colonization: Scots and Swedes in Southern Africa, 1770–1850. He has a PhD in Geography from the University of Edinburgh (2017), and his research has primarily focused on music, scale, aesthetics, Scotland, suburbs, cities, and colonial pasts and presents. He is the author of the books The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) and Music and the Cultural Production of Scale (Palgrave, 2023).