The Royal Musical Association
Awards
Awards for Scholarship
Financial Grants
See Also
Student Research Grants
Research grants of up to £250 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. The 2013 competition has now closed. For the 2013 competition, applications and supporting letters should be received by 28 February 2014.
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 2013
Amanda Babington (University of Manchester), the Fellowes Student Research Grant, to support attendance at and the delivery of a paper to the 2013 Handel Conference hosted at Princeton University by the American Handel Society.
Joanna Clements (University of Glasgow), the Goldsborough Student Research Grant, to support attendance at and the delivery of a paper to the 2013 conference of the International Adam Smith Society in Paris.
Jeremy Coleman (King's College, London), the Frank Howes Student Research Grant, to support attendance at and the delivery of a paper to a conference entitled ‘Translating Wagner’ at Columbia University, New York, 2013, and additional research in the New York Public Library.
Charles Gower-Smith (University of Leeds), the Oldman Student Research Grant, to support research on Maurice Greene in Oxford and London.
Kirsten Paige (University of California, Berkeley), a Thurston Dart Student Research Grant, to support attendance at and the delivery of a paper to the Performance Studies Network (Second International Conference), University of Cambridge, 2013.
Marilou Polymeropoulou (University of Oxford), a Thurston Dart Student Research Grant, to support attendance at and the delivery of a paper to the British Forum for Ethnomusicology/ICTM conference at Queen’s University, Belfast, 2013.
Dorien Schampaert (University of Leeds), a Thurston Dart Student Research Grant, to support attendance at and present research findings to the Assemblée Générale de la Fédération des Enseignements Artistiques Martenot.
Melissa Hok Cee Wong (University of Cambridge), a Thurston Dart Student Research Grant, to support attendance at and the delivery of a paper to the International Association for the Study of Popular Music at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.