Ruth is an Associate Professor of Popular Music and programme leader for the BA Popular Music Performance programme at the University of Chester. As a musicologist, she regularly delivers papers at conferences and was most recently the Keynote Speaker for the 'New Perspectives in Popular Music Research: Changes and Turmoil' Conference at the University of Agder, in Norway. Her media work includes contributions to BBC Radio 4, BBC 2 and BBC 4 programmes, discussing the musicological features of a range of popular music. In addition to delivering modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, she undertakes advisory work for Universities including the Open University and is the external examiner for the BA (Hons) Popular and Commercial Music course at the University of South Wales.