Summer 2017 has been a whirlwind season; as usual I haven’t spent very long in one place at a time, although I am now in the middle of a…
What do you do with a PhD in Music?
In this new series of blogs, PhD student Jessica Beck sheds some light on the musical past of Conway Hall
Jessica is a 26 year-old PhD student currently undertaking an AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral award at the Royal Northern College of Music, supervised by Professor Barbara Kelly and Professor David Amigoni. Her research is based on the archives held at Conway Hall that relate to its own history, and her thesis currently has a working title of The Role of Women Musicians at South Place Ethical Society, 1887 – 1927. Jessica studied for her BA in Music and MRes in Musicology at Keele University (2009–13) and is now approaching the third year of her PhD. More updates are available on Twitter from @_JessicaClaire_
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to spend over a week in Germany, including 6 days in Hannover. The city is a wonderful mix of old and new, my favourite…
Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to present at a number of conferences, but at the end of February I added to my ‘firsts of 2017’ list by…
View The trials and tribulations of public speaking (with a little bit of history for fun).
This week I got to do something that I have been looking forward to for a while – I put up an exhibition! The lovely librarians at Conway Hall asked…
Admittedly, it has been a while since my last post, but I have a fairly legitimate excuse. Since my return from Poland, I have been in a small bubble of…
Instead of having a little moan about conference organisation (see my last blog), this time I only have good things to say about the opportunities I’ve had to attend and…
Since my last post, a lot of my energy has been directed towards this potential career path – probably more than I would have liked to be honest. This is…
Anyone who has seen the musical Avenue Q may recognise the title of my blog from the first line of the opening song, ‘What do you do with a BA…