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The following studentships and scholarships are available for postgraduate study in the Music Department at the University of Nottingham, 2013/14. Full details, deadlines and application forms are available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/students/fees-and-funding/intro.aspx • AHRC MA Studentship: pays UK/EU fees and a maintenance grant (at approximately £13,726). • AHRC Doctoral Studentship in Music: pays UK/EU fees and, in line with AHRC guidelines on eligibility and subject to satisfactory progress, a maintenance grant (for up to three years full-time at approximately £13,726 per annum, and up to five years part-time at approximately £6,863). • School of Humanities Doctoral Studentships: pay UK/EU fees and a maintenance grant, subject to satisfactory progress (at approximately £13,726 per annum for three years). • Henry Thomas Mitchell Postgraduate Scholarship, worth between £2500 and £5000, open to full-time students specialising in vocal performance or researching an aspect of singing or the voice. • Lillian Ruff Postgraduate Scholarship, equivalent to the full cost of the UK/EU fee for a part-time taught MA course in the School of Humanities. This scholarship is open to all students within the School of Humanities, but priority is given to Music applicants. • Sir Francis Hill Postgraduate Scholarship , offers a remission of full time HEU, research postgraduate fees and maintenance grant at Research Council rates (£3,924 and £13,726 for 2013/14). It is open to applicants in the Arts and Social Sciences. You must have secured a place on the relevant programme in order to be eligible for the studentships and scholarships. Details at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/music/prospective/postgraduate/index.aspx Areas of research specialism in the department include: • Music on Stage and Screen (opera, ballet, melodrama, spoken theatre, film, video and other multi-media performance experiences) • Early Music (Medieval, Renaissance and early modern music, including source studies, issues of patronage and identity, production) • Music in Contemporary Culture (twentieth and twenty-first century music, with a particular focus upon the intersections of music and culture, including music and politics; public subsidy and cultural policy; music and ethics; jazz and popular music) The department enjoys strong cross-disciplinary links with a number of other schools in the University. Recent years have seen a number of collaborations with colleagues in English Studies, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Film and TV Studies. Music forms a strong research interest within the Department of American and Canadian Studies and the School of Geography, offering research students in music significant potential for fruitful intellectual exchange. For more information, please contact the Director of PG Studies, Dr Sarah Hibberd: [log in to unmask] Dr Sarah Hibberd Head of Department Music Department University of Nottingham NG7 2RD +44(0)115 951 3139