Melissa Bradshaw

During her studies in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Bradshaw was a contributor to the university's long-standing newspaper, Cherwell.

[3] She gained an MA on Gender, Culture and Politics and a PhD from Birkbeck College, London, and held an Arts and Humanities Research Council doctoral award.

Her PhD thesis, on Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and Psychoanalysis, was examined by Jacqueline Rose and Linda Anderson.

She has interviewed many of London's key influential musicians in Dubstep, such as Skream, Digital Mystikz, Loefah and Kode 9,[1][5] and other musicians including Frank Ocean,[6] Grace Jones, Roots Manuva, and The Gossip.

She wrote a short history of soundsystems in the UK for Red Bull Music Academy London 2010.