IASPM UK and Ireland

Statement on the Proposed Cancellation of the Initial Teacher Training Bursary for Music

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/

Professor Steve Waksman, leader of the Amplification Project at the University of Huddersfield, poses smiling behind a stack of colourful amps by Marshall, Orange, Vox and other manufacturers.

Call for papers: Amplification and Everyday Life conference, University of Huddersfield, 4-5 June 2026.

Submission deadline 15 December 2025.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH. It's important to engage with Black history & culture throughout the year in the music curriculum, for the benefit of all students. Watch Natasha Hendry's Why Music x Music Mark session to learn more! The Why Music logo is top right and the Music Mark logo is bottom left.

We have a range of resources to help you engage with #BlackHistoryMonth as a music educator 📣

The Why Music x Music Mark series explores rap, hip hop, blues, steel pan, grime, jazz, equity, Black History Month, and so much more!

🔗Watch now: www.musicmark.org.uk/resources/th...

Today's the last day to register for the NTIA's fan-led review of electronic music. Info here:

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, Logos: The British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust.

From planning their ECR journey to top tips on wellness, tune into #ConfessionsOfAnECR where fellow researchers share their academia survival tips.

Three new episodes now available across all podcasting platforms: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... 🎙️

@britishacademy.bsky.social

Discover music resources that resonate: Join our webinar walkthrough on November 13th and find out how our digital platforms optimize teaching, learning and research: attendee.gototraining.com/r/5359452981...

Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!

Join us for the Fan-Led Review of Electronic Music, hosted by Lord Brennan, and help shape the future of the UK’s electronic music scene.  

- London, United Kingdom (venue TBA)
- 28th October 2025,10:30AM arrival
- Complete the form to register. 

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Manifesto for Music Scotland - Music Education & Skills Roundtable · Luma Contribute to UK Music's policy development and shape our Manifesto for Music for the Scottish elections in 2026. This event is open to anyone working in music…

📣 Calling all music educators in Scotland!

UK Music want to hear from you

Join an online roundtable next week to help develop their Manifesto for Music ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections in 2026

🔗 Sign up: https://luma.com/rgqlunlv

#ScotlandMusic #MusicTeacher

2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference – Sempre The 2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference will take place on Thursday, 16 April 2026, at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, with online participation avail

Save the date: the 2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference will be held on Thursday, 16 April 2026 at the University of Cambridge.

The conference is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers (PGRs & ECRs) working in music psychology and music education.

Learn more: sempre.org.uk/conference/2...

Volume 37 Issue 3 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press

"Journal of Popular Music Studies" co-editors @burrata.bsky.social & Alisha Lola Jones's reflect on their 1st year editing "JPMS" in the Sept issue online now. We pub JPMS in partnership with @iaspm-us.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...

Photo of trees, a lake with fountain, and campus buildings of UC Dublin with the college logo and crest superimposed in the top left corner.

Call for papers: Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era

An in-person conference of the International Musicological Society at University College Dublin, 11-12 June 2026.

Submit a proposal 5 December 2025.

www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

The Risks and Benefits of Using AI in Research

Online seminar TODAY, 13 October:
The Risks and Benefits of Using AI in Research, hosted by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

14:00 - 15:00 BST (London)

Online live via Zoom. Register here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference – Sempre The 2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference will take place on Thursday, 16 April 2026, at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, with online participation avail

Save the date: the 2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference will be held on Thursday, 16 April 2026 at the University of Cambridge.

The conference is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers (PGRs & ECRs) working in music psychology and music education.

Learn more: sempre.org.uk/conference/2...

Film International Film International - Journal of World Cinema; Film International is devoted to the study of world cinemas, focusing on films within international and transnational contexts. The journal offers insight...

Call for Papers: ‘Popular Music and Identity in Cinema’

Special issue of the journal Film International: Journal of World Cinema.

Deadline 1 February 2026. View the full call: www.intellectbooks.com/film-interna...

AI company Anthropic has settled a copyright case & must pay $1.5B to publishers & authors. If your work was stolen, you could claim $3k/book. Popular music scholars are known to have been affected. Learn more via the Textbook and Academic Authors Association: www.taaonline.net/anthropic-se...

Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence and Popular Music

Special issue of the journal Popular Music and Society.

Deadline 20 December 2025. iaspm.org.uk/artificial-i...

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Vacancy for Reviews Editor for both the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (new deadline of Monday 6 October)
www.rma.ac.uk/2025/07/17/r...

Job opportunity at the University of Huddersfield providing administrative support to the Leverhulme-funded Amplification Project. Apply by 1st October:

Call for book proposals!

Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk

Punk & Post-Punk 14.2 is out now! 🤘🎵

Including ‘‘Punk Rock Cliché’: The proverbial NOFX’ by Luis J. Tosina Fernández

Access the issue via discover 👉 intellectdiscover.co...

Image from the title page of the RMA Annual conference programme.

We're excited for our annual conference in a few days' time, this year hosted by the University of Southampton! Hope to see lots of you there.
www.southampton.ac.uk/music/RMAcon...

Popular Music and Society journal title page & cover image for May 2020

Taylor Swift on stage

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Taylor Swift

What do the many creative languages of Swift's work reveal about identity, power, and society?

Submit a brief CV and 350–500 word abstract for a feature-length research article by 1 Oct.

More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Photos of the University of Leeds School of Music building and some music themed street art nearby.

Well done to all the speakers at our Postgraduate Research Conference, held last Friday at Leeds on the theme of 'music and crisis'. Thank you especially to the organising team and volunteers. We heard excellent talks on topics from DIY internet radio to the challenges faced by women tour managers.

For in person attendance, please register here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

If you wish to attend online, sign up here: city-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Full announcement: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

Understanding REF Impact in Music: Half Day Workshop, 19 Nov 2025

- Online and at City St George’s, University of London
- Free, travel bursaries available for PGRs & ECRs
- Topics will include working with non-academic partners; writing an impact case study; assessment of impact in REF.

wildpop conference call for proposals: "underground, DIY & fringe cultures have the grassroots spontaneous intensity that challenge corporate dominance. Don’t they?"

6-8 November 2025, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Submit to wildpop@newcastle.ac.uk by 31 Aug.

iaspm.org.uk/wildpop-2025/

Currently in our summer sale 🌞

A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.

Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/dance-music-...

Graphic: RMA 150th anniversary fellowships - for early career researchers - single-year postdoctoral fellowships up to £3000 - deadline: Monday 25 August - www.rma.ac.uk

Deadline coming up soon for the RMA 150th Anniversary Fellowships! www.rma.ac.uk/2025/06/10/t...

Are you an early career researcher looking to get published?

Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.

Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

Delighted to announce that the 14th Ludomusicology conference kicks off this Thursday in London and in-person tickets are sold out! Looking forward to seeing you either on site or online (online tickets still available!). #gameaudio #vgm
Check it out: www.ludomusicology.org/2025/05/08/l...