Patrycja is project leader of the Live Music Mapping Project. She works as a senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham (UK). Her research agenda focuses on the participation of interest groups in the European and national policy-making and transposition processes. Within the regulation of the live music industry in the UK and EU, the main issues are the influence of Brexit on the live music industry and stakeholders’ participation in the creative industries regulation. She heads the Birmingham Live Music Project from which the Live Music Mapping Project has emerged.