James Taylor is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, where his work focuses on Soviet music culture in the 1920s, examining the impact of evolutionary biology, criminology, psychiatry […]
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Public Engagement and the Media
Kirstie Hewlett is a PhD student at the University of Southampton. Her doctoral research focusses on Heinrich Schenker and the radio. An article she has written on this subject is […]
Read moreLife Post-PhD: Post-doctoral Work as a Member of a Project Team
In October 2013 Dr Laura Anderson started work as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Leeds. She is a member of the team working on ‘The Professional Career […]
Read moreSpotlight on Interdisciplinary Research: Cultural History of the Nineteenth Century
Anna Maria Barry is a PhD candidate at Oxford Brookes University, where she is a member of the OBERTO opera research unit. Her work focuses on male opera singers of the nineteenth […]
Read more15 Minutes with…the Dent Medallist (interview with Elizabeth Eva Leach)
For the first of this new series of blog features, we caught up with the 2013 recipient of the Dent Medal, Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford), during the […]
Read moreAdventures in DC: Tales from the AHRC Library of Congress Scheme
This month’s blog post comes to us from Dr Adam Harper (University of Oxford), a recent research fellow of the AHRC Library of Congress Scheme. Adam undertook his fellowship to […]
Read moreLife Post-PhD: An Alternative Career in Higher Education
Dr Michael Byde studied at Leeds University for a PhD on music analysis and criticism focussing on William Walton. He is now Faculty Education Service Manager for the Faculty of […]
Read moreThe PhD Viva: A Survivor’s Story
Dr Harriet Boyd-Bennett is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church College, University of Oxford, working on music tours around Italy in the 1920s. She completed her PhD in June 2014 […]
Read more‘Inside the Collaborative Process’: Spotlight on Practice-led Research
London-based Australian pianist, Zubin Kanga has performed at the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, Occupy the Pianos (UK), ISCM World New Music Days (Australia) and Borealis (Norway) Festivals as well as appearing […]
Read morePublic Engagement: Making an Impact
Dr Alexandra Wilson (Oxford Brookes University) works on late 19th-century and early 20th-century opera, viewed within its critical, cultural and political contexts. Committed to sharing the findings of her research with a wider public, she has […]
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