Dr Jonathan Hicks, Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College, Oxford (and our own former RMA Student Representative, 2009-11) is a member of the Leverhulme-funded “Hearing Landscape […]
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DAAD Scholarships for Post-grads, a voice from Berlin!
Emily MacGregor is a second-year musicology PhD student at Oxford University. Currently a DAAD visiting scholar at the Freie Universität, Berlin, we invited her to share a little about the […]
Read moreHow to Get Published: A Beginner’s Guide
Following their much-in-demand joint talk at RMA’s 2013 Research Student Conference at the University of Southampton, Southampton’s own Professor Jeanice Brooks and the Managing Editor at Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Loren Diclaudio offer […]
Read moreA PhD Abroad? An Erasmus Placement in Paris
Have you thought about spending a year abroad during your PhD for research? What are the good, the bad, and the ugly? Leopold Tobisch, currently on a one-year Erasmus programme in […]
Read moreGetting a ‘Post-Doc’: How Is It Even Possible?!
We asked British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Matthew Pritchard at Cambridge for his insight into getting a post-doc. (Yes! How is it even possible?!) And after his popular talk at this year’s […]
Read moreRMA Research Student Conference 2013: A Report
This conference report by Alistair Zaldua (Goldsmiths University of London) is our first in a series of post-RSC2013 features. Over the next few weeks we’ll also be posting pieces on creating […]
Read moreHow to Organise a Conference: A Beginner’s Guide
Conferences and study days are an important part of academic life: they provide forums for the exchange of ideas and for networking. Organising a conference can be a hugely rewarding […]
Read moreAgainst the will of the work? The ethics of classical music sponsorship
Doctoral composer, musicologist, and activist in human rights and environmental issues, Chris Garrard, argues for a socially conscious music sponsorship, specifically in relation to the ‘Shell Classic International’ concert series at the London […]
Read moreConference Review: AMS/SEM/SMT Big Gathering in the Big Easy, 2012
Amanda Hsieh writes about her experience as a first-time delegate at the American Musicological Society’s annual meeting, this year held in downtown New Orleans, 1-4 November. As a (very) junior […]
Read moreConference Review: The North American British Music Studies Association Biennial Conference 2012
To open our new RMA Student Blog, the Student Committee has invited its current Chair and research student in twentieth-century British music, Kate Guthrie, to write about her experience attending […]
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