I’d completely forgotten I had an account here, but anyways here’s a fun conference we’re hosting in June all about musical instruments - please share, and do get in touch if you have any questions! soundstories2026.wordpress.com

Sound Stories Conference 2026

Joint Conference of The Galpin Society and UKRI Global Music Technologies group

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed In one of David Lodge’s famous campus novels, a young English literature lecturer pictures her university as “the ideal human community, where ……

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Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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A really fantastic partnership, placing quality music education at the heart of a school. Music is for EVERYONE, not just the privileged few: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Banging the drum for music education: the UK school run with an orchestra

Shireland CBSO academy in West Bromwich has put music at centre of its teaching in effort to revive interest

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Sharing again for those who may have missed this first time round!

Dr Rachael Durkin@rachaeldurkin.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m now inviting applications for 2 postdoc roles to work with me on on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. Closing date 26th Jan. Please share!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD914/r...

I’m now inviting applications for 2 postdoc roles to work with me on on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. Closing date 26th Jan. Please share!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD914/r...

Research Fellow in Humanities at Northumbria University

Apply now for the Research Fellow in Humanities role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame

Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers

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I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

Fascinating opportunity here for a funded PhD position for UK/home student with interests in organology, music pedagogy, musical collection, global musicology... #musicology

Dr Rachael Durkin@rachaeldurkin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Applications are now open for a fully funded PhD position at Northumbria University as part of my research project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. The studentship will focus on global musical instruments as tools for education in the primary classroom /1

Applications are now open for a fully funded PhD position at Northumbria University as part of my research project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. The studentship will focus on global musical instruments as tools for education in the primary classroom /1

Was great to be at the first half of the North East Heritage Forum this afternoon in the stunning Great Hall of the Discovery Museum, Newcastle. Good to hear more about the new North East Combined Authority - lots of work to do, but clear opportunities to leverage heritage for positive impact.

Call for Proposals: Royal Musical Association 61st Annual Conference, Department of Music, University of Southampton (10–12 September 2025) www.rma.ac.uk/2024/11/20/c...

I’m so pleased to see the first half of our double special issue on organology (musical instrument studies) published in the Journal of Musicological Research! Huge amount of hard work by some utterly brilliant colleagues - very proud of this! Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmur20/4...

Journal of Musicological Research

Organology Special Issue. Volume 43, Issue 2-3 of Journal of Musicological Research

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HISTORY JOB ALERT 🚨🗃️ Assistant Professor in Modern History (post 1800), of Britain (including Ireland) or Europe and/or their empires. Come work with us @WarwickHistory! Please share and circulate. Details below 👇 Deadline: 14 January 2024 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate...

Fantastic to receive my copy of The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology yesterday with our chapter on organology (co-authored with Darryl Martin). Such a fascinating range of topics covered, assembled and expertly edited by Chris Dromey. Very much looking forward to reading this!

I now have multiple invite codes to share - dm me if you have a friend looking for one!

Dr Rachael Durkin@rachaeldurkin.bsky.social · 3y ago

I have a spare code for here should you have a friend looking for one - just shout if you’d like it!

I have a spare code for here should you have a friend looking for one - just shout if you’d like it!

This piano has real start of semester energy…

A great couple of days at the RMA2023 conference at the University of Nottingham for a panel on the future of organology. Now have major campus envy. Shame the weather hasn’t followed me back north 🙄

Such a joy to be at the Lit&Phil library in Newcastle this evening to present a short paper as part of the John Buddle 250 celebrations. Stunning building too - worth a visit if you are in town!

Museum roles have the best job titles 🐟

Loved my time in the Netherlands last week at the CIMCIM2023 conference - top highlights include an after hours lock-in at the Rijksmuseum, a visit to high security underground collections storage, and catching up with wonderful colleagues I haven’t seen in a very long time.