Daniel Cioccoloni is the Academic Planning Manager at the Blavatnik School of Government, overseeing the operational planning and delivery of the School’s MPP and MSc in Public Policy Research courses.
His key areas of responsibility include designing term structure and logistics, with a particular focus on leading technical innovation for teaching, learning resources, and faculty planning.
Daniel has a wide-ranging professional background, from logistics and implementation, to systems engineering and multimedia design (3rd prize at the Oxford/Sennheiser Electronic Music Prize, 2015; shortlisted: Borealis Festival, Radiophrenia).
Outside the School, Daniel writes extensively about music and sociology. Some of the subjects he has covered in recent years include paleomusicology (music in prehistory), the sociology of musical cultures, and the development of equal temperament tuning in late Ming dynasty China. He is currently writing about the role of musicking behaviours as mechanisms for record keeping and social organisation in oral cultures.
Drawing on recent developments in semiotics and culture studies, as well as the work of sociologist Maurice Bloch and of anthropologist Chantelle Marlor, Daniel’s current area of focus lies in analysing the role of culture in human sociality as a range of behaviours that facilitate the emergence of spaces of shared imagination.