Meet Dr Sean Williams, one of our Music faculty, who joined students and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for a study day earlier this semester.

ICTMD Ireland announce the Tony Langlois Postgraduate Publication Award, recognising excellence in postgraduate scholarship published in Ethnomusicology Ireland.

Music Computing job opportunity with colleagues in the STEM faculty at the OU: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN260/r... #AcademicJobs

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

If I never hear the phrase 'locked and loaded' again, it will be too soon.

I forgot to share this but another thing I've been working on of late (with lots of amazing other people) has been a creative toolkit for tinnitus support groups, meant to help support often tricky conversations about experiencing tinnitus tinnitusarts.co.uk/toolkit

Congratulations to the local arrangements committee at King's College London for a fantastic annual conference for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology! It has been a joy to work with you over the last year. @bfeadmin.bsky.social @katherineschof8.bsky.social @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social

Very pleased that my new edition of John Frederick Lampe and Jonathan Battishill's settings of Charles Wesley is now available from A-R Editions. www.areditions.com/early-method...

Tweaky Blunters? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans

Labour just keeps finding new lows. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We're struggling with this on our campus right now as well. I don't understand what is supposed to be an effective alt text for a page of musical score my students are analyzing. Have you seen anyone discuss this that I could reference? I imagine it's one of several issues involved for music depts.

Congratulations to @owencoggins.bsky.social for a great BFE keynote talk, 'Distortion, Ambiguity and Ideology in Underground Black Metal', at the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students Conference at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. @royalmusical.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social

The website for BFE@KCL 2026 — 9-12 April — is now up and running! Conference registration will be available in the new year. bfeconference2026.wordpress.com @kingsmusic.bsky.social & BFE are excited to welcome you all to London to explore with us the theme of music and the present/presence

Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the Proposed Suspension of Recruitment to the BA and Foundation Year in Music at Northumbria University https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/25/rma-statement-on-northumbria-music-recruitment/

We're offering a PhD fees-only studentship for someone to begin studying with us in October 2026. Mode of study can be full-time or part-time, including distance learning. Open to any area of musicology that aligns with our expertise in the department. See fass.open.ac.uk/music/resear... #PhD

RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...

c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social is delighted to be hosting the annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 9–12 April 2026, on the theme Ethnomusicology and the Present. Call for Papers below; deadline for proposals 24 Nov. bfe.org.uk/conf/ethnomu...

The Royal Musical Association and Cambridge University Press Edited Book Prize for 2025 goes to Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay for their edited collection 'Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century' (OUP, 2024).

✨CALL FOR PROPOSALS✨ The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) and the Royal Musical Association (RMA) are seeking proposals for their Research Students’ Conference hosted by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 6th-8th January 2026. See the link in our bio for submission guidelines and event info.

It was a pleasure to author the OpenLearn Course 'Women Transforming Classical Music', which is designed to support performers and classical music ensembles and institutions to perform more music by historic and contemporary women composers: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi... #WomenInMusic

Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/02/03/s...