Doctoral Research in Musicology at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students
The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C) is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. M3C is awarding up to 80 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2018 entry. M3C provides research candidates with expert supervision (including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate), research training and access to a wide range of facilities, cohort events and placement opportunities with regional, national and international in the cultural, creative and heritage sectors.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Birmingham City University) is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:
· French Music (as part of our French Music Research Hub), notably:
o 17th- and 18th-century French music from Lully and Charpentier to Rameau (Shirley Thompson and Graham Sadler)
o 20th-century French music, notably: Ravel, Les Six (Poulenc, Milhaud, Honegger, Tailleferre) through to Jolivet (Deborah Mawer)
o Messiaen (Christopher Dingle)
o French Musical Culture of and around WWI (Rachel Moore)
· 17th- and 18th-Century Music (as part of our Forum for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music), notably:
o Performance Practices of the Early Baroque (Jamie Savan)
o 17th- and 18th-century French music from Lully and Charpentier to Rameau (Shirley Thompson and Graham Sadler) (intersecting with our French Music Research Hub)
o Italian Baroque Music (Carrie Churnside)
o Late 18th-century Austro-Germanic music, notably Beethoven
· Contemporary Film and Television Music, Theory and Analysis (Janet K. Halfyard)
· Late-Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music Theory and Manuscript Studies (Ronald Woodley, Jeffrey Dean, Christian Goursaud and Adam Whittaker)
· Performance Practices of the Renaissance (Jamie Savan)
· Music Critics and Criticism (Christopher Dingle)
· Piano Performance Practice and Pedagogy in the 19th Century (Siān Derry)
· Jazz Studies (Tony Whyton, Deborah Mawer, Nick Gebhardt, Nicholas Pillai and Simon Barber)
Expressions of interest to develop an application for study at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire should be sent to [log in to unmask]<https://owa.bcu.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=488f660688cc41ffa502e8d7f713e832&URL=mailto%3am3c%40bcu.ac.uk> by 30th November. Information on Conservatoire research staff and their specialisms can be found at http://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/research/groups-and-specialisms.
The deadline for M3C funding applications is Monday 15 January 2018, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have ensured that two academic references are submitted to the home university on the correct M3C form. For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and CDA projects, and for dates of our November application writing workshops, please visit http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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