The Royal Musical Association
Awards
Awards for Scholarship
Financial Grants
See Also
Student Research Grants
Normally four research grants of up to £150 each are available annually for student members of the RMA or members of RMA student groups. Typical expenses might include microfilm and photocopying costs, travel, and accommodation expenses for research away from home or for giving papers at conferences
- Click here for information on how to apply. For the 2010 competition, applications and supporting letters should be received by 28 February 2010.
Louise Dyer Award
Students working on British music should note that small research grants are also available from Musica Britannica's Louise Dyer fund. Applications are sought by means of circulars to heads of departments sent annually during the autumn term. Awards are announced in January.
Recipients in 2010
Simon Desbruslais, University of Oxford, the Fellowes Student Research Grant, to obtain copies of unpublished materials in the Paul Hindemith Collection at Yale University Library.
Kate Guthrie, University of Cambridge, the Goldsborough Student Research Grant, for a research visit to study autograph manuscripts of 20 works by Arthur Willner in the Vienna Library and the Universal Edition Archive.
Tomáš Kráčmar, University of Manchester, the Frank Howes Student Research Grant, for a research visit to Copenhagen to study unpublished works of Carl Nielsen in autograph manuscripts.
Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, University of Cambridge, a Thurston Dart Student Research Grant, towards attending and giving paper at the ‘Nature vs. Culture’ conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology to be held at the University of Sheffield, July 2010.
Katherine Williams, University of Nottingham, the Oldman Student Research Grant, for attending and giving paper at the annual Leeds International Jazz Conference.
In 2010, four additional grants have been made from funds made available following the RMA/SMI joint annual conference in the summer of 2009. These have been awarded as follows:
Estelle Murphy, University of Cork, an RMA/SMI research grant for attending and giving a paper at the first International conference on Irish music, to be held at the University of Durham, July 2010.
Ian Sapiro, University of Leeds, an RMA/SMI research grant for attending and giving a paper at the Music and Moving Image V conference, to be held in New York, May 2010.
David Ireland, University of Leeds, an RMA/SMI research grant for attending and giving a paper at the Music and Moving Image V conference, to be held in New York, May 2010.
Rebecca Eumorfopoulos, Royal Holloway, University of London, an RMA/SMI research grant for fieldwork trips to study female popular musicians in the UK.