Dr Diljeet Kaur Bhachu FHEA FRSA is a musician, educator, researcher and activist based in Glasgow. In 2017 she co-founded the Scottish-Asian Creative Artists’ Network (ScrAN), to address the issues specific to Scottish-Asians working in the creative industries in Scotland, and is a co-organiser of the Decolonising the Musical University conference that took place virtually in July 2020. Diljeet sits on Hal Leonard’s EDI Advisory Group, alongside other consultancy roles in the arts and cultural sectors. In 2021 Diljeet was invited to become a Fellow of the RSA (royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce), in recognition of her research and activism relating to race and gender issues in the music industry, and co-founding ScrAN. Diljeet is one half of flutes/taiko/electronics duo Velma, with Georgie White. She is in the live band for Kapil Seshasayee, and features on his albums A Sacred Bore (2018) and Laal (2022)s`. She also improvises and writes for her own solo project with flutes and electronics and is currently writing her debut album. You can read some of Diljeet’s poetry in The Colour of Madness, “a BAME Mental Health anthology”, published in 2018.
