Sini Timonen is a PhD student in Music at City University London, working on an AHRC-funded research project on women musicians’ contribution to popular music in England between the years of 1962 and 1971. She is active as a seminar speaker and guest lecturer at various universities in the UK, and she was awarded an MA by Research degree for her thesis ‘Girls in the Garage: Gender and Tradition in Garage Rock’ at Kingston University in 2008. She also plays in a band and runs a monthly 1960s club night in central London.