Shara gained her PhD in Music at the University of Salford (UK). Her research and teaching interests include: Musicology, Post-production, Postmodernism, Digital Media, Remixology, Music Industry, Events Management, Education, and Law (IPR). She is an editor on the Journal on the Art of Record Production, and has written for Popular Music, Popular Musicology, Popular Music and Society, and PopMatters. Shara is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education (2016).