Robert Adlington

Just one month left to apply for the Young Double Reed Programme, an exciting opportunity to meet fellow enthusiasts and learn from RCM professors!

Open to: 11–18 year olds
Standard: Grade 6+
Dates: Selected Sundays Jan-March 2026

Learn more and apply by 28 November: www.rcm.ac.uk/events/detai...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

Join us next Wednesday for an exciting collaborative concert celebrating the centenary of legendary French composer, Pierre Boulez. Musicians from the RCM and Conservatoire de Paris are busy rehearsing for this special project in Paris! 🇫🇷

Learn more and book: www.rcm.ac.uk/events/detai...

Farage’s plans to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain would ruin lives and tear families apart.

Rather than dismissing Reform’s xenophobic proposals as 'unrealistic' or 'unaffordable', our government should be clear that they are cruel and unjust. We must stand up for migrants' rights.

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Student Paper Prizes: RMA/Musici Trust Prize for a paper on music before 1600: Speakers will be invited to submit their papers to the RMA/Musici Trust prize for a student paper on music before 1600. The winner will receive a £300 prize, be offered mentorship, and also be invited to present their work at the RMA Annual Conference. RMARC Student Paper Prize: Speakers will be invited to submit their papers to the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle student-paper prize. Participation will be open to all speakers. The winner will receive a £100 book token from Cambridge University Press, as well as mentorship from the editors of RMARC to develop and expand their submission for publication in RMARC.

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️

Following a request from the Musici Trust, the deadline for proposals for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference has been extended by one week to next Thursday, 25th September.

Tra le fiamme, the latest recording on Channel Classics, brings together the RCM's innovative new 3D printed instruments with rare originals from the RCM Collection, performed by alumni and leading professors from our Historical Performance Faculty!

Discover the recording: bit.ly/RCM-Tralefia...

✨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.

Congratulations Sarah! 👏🏻Lovely to be working with you.

We’re delighted to announce that Dr Sarah K Whitfield (@sarahinthepark.bsky.social) has been appointed Reader in Musical Theatre at the Royal College of Music and has also been appointed Head of Doctoral Programmes.

Read more about Sarah’s achievements: bit.ly/RCM-Sarah-Wh...

A fascinating few days hosting the inaugural Music and Parental Wellbeing Symposium at the RCM, where over 75 international speakers came together to explore music’s vital role in supporting parents’ wellbeing.

Find out more about the RCM’s research: bit.ly/RCM-Symposium

On 22–23 July, the RCM will host the inaugural Music and Parental Wellbeing Symposium, bringing together over 75 international speakers to explore how music can support parents’ wellbeing.

Find out how the RCM’s work has already made a difference: bit.ly/RCM-Musicand...

Spotted our exhibition in Time Out London?

We’re thrilled to announce more dates for Kurt Cobain Unplugged. We are now booking until 18 November. Don’t miss this chance to explore the legacy of Kurt Cobain!

🎫 bit.ly/Cobain_newda...

#KurtCobain #Nirvana #Rock #Grunge

We're hiring! The Faculty of Music is looking for a part-time New Music Co-ordinator to help support our programme of contemporary and newly composed music, working on concerts, workshops, and lectures. Please share widely! #MusicJobs #NewMusic
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❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy?

The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications.

Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

Cardiff scraps plans to cut music and languages courses Further rowing back of cost-cutting measures end fears that certain languages will no longer be taught in Wales

Cardiff University has announced that it intends to save its music and languages courses from closure, in a further move to scale back on its savings plans. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports

#AcademicSky #highered

Work with us | Campaign for the Arts We're looking for a Research & Analysis Lead to help us produce robust evidence, timely insights and a more informed public debate.

👀 We're #hiring! 👀

The Campaign for the Arts is looking for a new Research & Analysis Lead to help us produce robust evidence, timely insights and a more informed public debate 🗣️

Find out more → www.campaignforthearts.org/about/jobs/

Wrote a piece about Avril Coleridge-Taylor, her dad, and the @royalalberthall.bsky.social -- sarahwhitfield.com/2025/05/12/a...

I have a chapter in this I'm very proud of, about bisexual fan communities relationship to Hamilton, and the work that queer fan communities do to see themselves in the room where it happens 💙💜🩷

Booking is now open for Kurt Cobain Unplugged!

This brand-new exhibition reunites Kurt Cobain’s iconic Martin D-18E guitar with his unforgettable olive-green mohair cardigan from MTV Unplugged.

🎟️ Secure your ticket for just £5.

👉 Book now: bit.ly/RCM_Kurt_Cob...

Job at @uofglasgow.bsky.social @music-in-the-uni.bsky.social. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/music-ar...

Harvard University Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

Very interesting to explore @harvard.edu 's new home page

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Do join us for this inaugural Music and Parental Wellbeing Symposium (MPWS 2025). We’ll be talking all things music, parents, policy, and health. All most welcome, registration free ⬇️

Published this week: new SBS for Music - the product of a lot of work by a great group of people. I am proud to have been the deputy chair of the advisory group.

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Portability within REF remains key to fairness Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

The unintended consequences of decoupling outputs from their authors - portability, fairness and diversity.

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My friend, Lydia Ballam, is doing amazing work on conservatoire students’ experience with dyslexia. Consider sharing this or participating!

Registration is open for the inaugural Music and Parental Wellbeing Symposium.

📅 22-23 July 2025
📍 RCM London and online

Register to join the discussion on how music can support parents through pregnancy, childbirth, postnatally and beyond: bit.ly/RCM-MPWS

📣 Announcing Kurt Cobain Unplugged!

Kurt Cobain’s legendary Unplugged guitar takes centre stage in a new exhibition in the RCM Museum celebrating the enduring influence of Nirvana.

🗓️ 3 June – 18 November

Join the waitlist to be among the first to know when booking opens: bit.ly/RCM-Kurt-Cob...

New REF rules ‘risk leaving researchers’ careers in limbo’ ‘Existential crisis’ in arts and humanities exacerbates risk that axed academics will not be able to find new roles, subject associations fear

Sacked academics face an unjustifiable “restraint of trade” if they are prevented from entering outputs for a new employer into the next Research Excellence Framework, senior researchers in the creative arts industries have argued

#AcademicSky #highered

Research Shorts: Bringing Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s music out of the archive | Music Mark Last week, Croydon Youth Orchestra and Trinity Music Academy played the UK premiere of Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s Comet Prelude, a forgotten but important piece.

Was so delighted to have been part of this event led by Croydon Music and Arts! @tomedney.bsky.social @musicmarkuk.bsky.social www.musicmark.org.uk/news/researc...

Last chance to register for our SEMPRE conference 9-10 April at our RNCM!

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You can join us in person if you book by the end of tomorrow (Tue 25th March), or bookings will remain open for online attendance (£50 for the whole two days - bargain!).