Gareth Dylan Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London, England, where he teaches research skills in music and music education, and cultural and philosophical studies, as well as applied drum set. His work is frequently interdisciplinary, with intersecting foci on creativities, entrepreneurship, identity, music performance, and practice-as-research. Recent and forthcoming publications include papers on work-life balance and success in popular music, The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure (with Roger Mantie) and The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education (with Matt Brennan, Zack Moir, Shara Rambarran, and Phil Kirkman).