In this month’s blog post, Philip Robinson offers an assessment of current trends on the role of music in education, from school level up to higher education. Philip […]
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Part-time PhD-ing = a full time occupation
In this month’s feature, Debbie Rodgers and Ruth Currie share their experience of working on a PhD on a part-time basis. They reflect on the benefits of allowing their research […]
Read more15 Minutes with … the Jerome Roche Prize Winner (Interview the Katherine Hambridge)
Continuing our series of interviews with RMA Prize winners, at the BFE/RMA Students’ Conference we interviewed the 2016 recipient of the Jerome Roche Prize, Katherine Hambridge.[1] Dr Hambridge is […]
Read moreConference Review: Music Inside and Out, BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference 2018
The 2018 BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference took place at the University of Huddersfield on 4th-6th January 2018. Everyone involved in the running of the conference delivered a welcoming and most […]
Read moreShould Academic Societies Make Public Statements about Political Incidents? – An Interview with Katia Chornik
This month, Katia Chornik talks to the student representative Núria Bonet about her statement paper on the role of academic societies – such as the RMA – in making public […]
Read moreMusic and Space Study Day – Report
The Study Day on Music and Space took place on 28 October 2017 at the University of Manchester’s Martin Harris Centre. The packed programme was concerned with all aspects of […]
Read more15 Minutes with … the Dent Medallist (Interview with Mark Katz)
Continuing our series of interviews with RMA prize winners, we interviewed the 2016 recipient of the Dent Medal, Professor Mark Katz, before his keynote lecture at the RMA’s 2017 Annual Conference […]
Read more“It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it”: The inclusive nature of community music research
This month, Debbie Rodgers, a PhD candidate at Canterbury Christ Church University, offers a fascinating post on her research into the application of community music as a means of tackling […]
Read moreCareer Planning in Academia: An Interview with Darcey Gillie
Darcey Gillie is a Postgraduate Careers Consultant at The University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Geosciences from The University of Edinburgh, a PG Dip in Secondary Education, and […]
Read more‘Public Engagement’ and Musicology: Interviews with Katherine Hambridge, Flora Willson and Alexandra Wilson
Giles Masters is a PhD Student at King’s College London, where his research focuses on the festivals organised by the International Society for Contemporary Music in the 1920s and 30s. […]
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