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Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

A really fantastic partnership, placing quality music education at the heart of a school. Music is for EVERYONE, not just the privileged few: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sharing again for those who may have missed this first time round!

I’m now inviting applications for 2 postdoc roles to work with me on on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. Closing date 26th Jan. Please share!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD914/r...

'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

Fascinating opportunity here for a funded PhD position for UK/home student with interests in organology, music pedagogy, musical collection, global musicology... #musicology

Applications are now open for a fully funded PhD position at Northumbria University as part of my research project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. The studentship will focus on global musical instruments as tools for education in the primary classroom /1

Was great to be at the first half of the North East Heritage Forum this afternoon in the stunning Great Hall of the Discovery Museum, Newcastle. Good to hear more about the new North East Combined Authority - lots of work to do, but clear opportunities to leverage heritage for positive impact.

Call for Proposals: Royal Musical Association 61st Annual Conference, Department of Music, University of Southampton (10–12 September 2025) www.rma.ac.uk/2024/11/20/c...

I’m so pleased to see the first half of our double special issue on organology (musical instrument studies) published in the Journal of Musicological Research! Huge amount of hard work by some utterly brilliant colleagues - very proud of this! Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmur20/4...

HISTORY JOB ALERT 🚨🗃️ Assistant Professor in Modern History (post 1800), of Britain (including Ireland) or Europe and/or their empires. Come work with us @WarwickHistory! Please share and circulate. Details below 👇 Deadline: 14 January 2024 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate...

Fantastic to receive my copy of The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology yesterday with our chapter on organology (co-authored with Darryl Martin). Such a fascinating range of topics covered, assembled and expertly edited by Chris Dromey. Very much looking forward to reading this!

I now have multiple invite codes to share - dm me if you have a friend looking for one!

I have a spare code for here should you have a friend looking for one - just shout if you’d like it!

This piano has real start of semester energy…

A great couple of days at the RMA2023 conference at the University of Nottingham for a panel on the future of organology. Now have major campus envy. Shame the weather hasn’t followed me back north 🙄

Such a joy to be at the Lit&Phil library in Newcastle this evening to present a short paper as part of the John Buddle 250 celebrations. Stunning building too - worth a visit if you are in town!

Museum roles have the best job titles 🐟

Loved my time in the Netherlands last week at the CIMCIM2023 conference - top highlights include an after hours lock-in at the Rijksmuseum, a visit to high security underground collections storage, and catching up with wonderful colleagues I haven’t seen in a very long time.