Jessica Tsun Lem Hui

I am a researcher, educator, and community arts and music facilitator based in London and Hertfordshire. My work explores the intersection of emerging technologies, culture, and sound, with singing and voice as a central thread. More recently, my focus has shifted toward multi-modal creative health practices in community settings.

I am currently leading a research project exploring how culturally informed therapeutic and social music can support Hong Kong diaspora communities living with dementia. This project is developed in partnership with Trinity Laban Conservatoire and East and South East Asian Community Centre in Hackney.

I am a lecturer and researcher at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and a freelance community arts facilitator. I lead weekly singing workshops for people living with dementia and their carers at Herts Musical Memories.

I completed my PhD in Music at the University of Cambridge in 2024, funded by the Scottish International Education Trust. During my doctoral studies, I was a visiting scholar at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022, supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

My doctoral research examined how technologies that reproduce or imitate the human singing voice - such as singing automata, voiceprints, and vocal synthesis- shape ideas about vocal identity within broader social, cultural, and political contexts.