Whether you are on the verge of your viva or want to know more about what it entails, this workshop is for you! This Viva Survival workshop aims to equip you with useful strategies to help you prepare for your viva, get through the big day itself and provide relevant information to demystify the viva […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – Creative Industries: Hope on the margins 1600-1730 Wednesday 21 November 2018 C284, Curzon B, Birmingham City University Dr. Jonathan Gross (Kings College London) Practices of Hope? Care, Creativity and the Possibilities of Cultural Policy Depending on your feelings towards Brexit, right-wing populism, and climate science, it may seem that hope is currently in […]
Session One Using Microsoft Word for thesis creation This practical workshop will help you incorporate essential and useful features of Microsoft Office Word for a professional finish. It covers: Inserting a cover page Navigating through large documents Using styles Page breaks, Section breaks and pagination Inserting a Table of Contents, footnotes and endnotes, and bookmarks Applying captions to figures, […]
The spring of 2018 brought the launch of STEAMhouse, a unique new space for innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration. STEAMhouse seeks to unite talented researchers, start-ups, SMEs and entrepreneurs from different backgrounds from within Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths – the STEAM disciplines – to bring amazing new ideas to life. We see huge benefit connecting […]
Tinctoris's L'homme armé mass restored: coherence and varietas Dr Jeffrey Dean (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) I shall introduce a major new research project, based at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and present the first important result to emerge from it. In an article of 2013, I had argued that the Tenor parts in two sections […]
“There is no way I could take an hour out of my busy schedule to do something nice, for a free coffee, to have a space to chat with people from different departments at different points in their studies. I have absolutely no time to maybe learn something or maybe share my knowledge and no […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – Popular Music – Grime: Beyond the borders and into the hinterlands? 1600-1730 Wednesday 5 December 2018 C284, Curzon B, Birmingham City University Dr. Monique Charles (University of West London) Grime. It’s. a (n. East). Lon.don. thing. It’s a London thing The dominant narrative that surrounds Grime is that it is an East London phenomenon […]
BCMCR Research Seminar – Popular Music – Voxmas Pop 5: In Defence of Christmas Songs 1600-1730 Wednesday 12 December 2018 C284, Curzon B, Birmingham City University Join us at the final BCMCR seminar of 2018 for a series of short takes in defence of Christmas songs. Watch and listen as Simon Barber, Sam Coley, Asya Draganova, Nick Gebhardt, Craig Hamilton, Dave Kane, Paul […]
Following the success of last year's event, we are delighted to invite you to … Careers & Cocktails (the festive edition)! Want to shake-up your career outlook or stir your imagination to think beyond the PhD? Join us for an evening of discussion, networking and short talks … over our aptly-named cocktails!* . Recognising the growing challenges of postdoc […]
You are invited to the Conservatoire Study Day. Support your fellow researchers and find out more about the exciting PhD research taking place in Music and the Performing Arts! See a schedule overview below and full abstracts here. Schedule Session One (The LAB): 9.15-10.45 Melinda Maxwell | Lost in Translation: How and Why Notate […]
