Independent Researcher

Founder of 'Progressive Etudes'- Research Portal of Progressive Studies

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Stephanie Lynne Thorburn is freelance writer, researcher and Reiki master with an interest in holistic health. She writes features primarily focused on music and nascent areas of social science, including Sociology and Parapsychology. She holds an MA in Sociology: Qualitative Research from Goldsmiths College, London UK and a BSc. (Hons.) in Sociology/ Psychology, City Uni, London.  Stephanie has undertaken a range of vocational diplomas including Graphic Arts and Parapsychology (with distinctions). She is a lifetime fellow of the Institute for Meridian Psychotherapy, (energy healing,) and is an advisor to the Journal of Anomalous Sciences.

Stephanie has freelanced extensively for press, especially Los Angeles Chronicle and PR-Inside.com. She contributes to a selection of official music sites and journals including Blues Matters and Record Collector. She worked in an organisational role on the Executive Committee of the London Screenwriters' Workshop from 2002-2004. Stephanie has a keen interest in sports, including snooker and cricket.

Over time, Stephanie Lynne has authored a series of music related eBooks and has a penchant for biography in context of the social and cultural heritage of the artist. Texts include,‘Incendiary Soul:  A Biographical Homage to the Sales Brothers’, a succinct biographical odyssey and ‘Blues Scholars’, a compendium eBook of her biographical work authored between 2002- 2012 on blues greats including Robert Johnson and John Lee Hooker. Ongoing works include a satirical text, ‘From Burlesque to Bohemia’ and her continuing postgraduate published works, placed to her portal 'Progressive Etudes'. She edits her own webzine ‘Nuance’. See: http://www.stephaniethorburn.webs.com

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