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New Starts part 1
The new academic year is approaching fast and things are changing. While I wait to hear what work I’ve got and where, I’ve been getting on with my own research. Several of my projects are almost at an end, so I need to work out which of my projects to dive into next. There are…
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Jigs
A couple of years ago I was sitting in the British Library calling up various documents that might be ballad-related, when I came across John Balshaw’s Jig. What really captured my interest was the fact that Balshaw apparently wrote the piece in Brindle, Lancashire, in 1660. Now Brindle is a little place near Chorley, and…
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Re-blogged from The Research Whisperer: Stitching together an intellectual life
Stitching together an intellectual life Stitching together an intellectual life — Read on researchwhisperer.org/2019/08/20/stitching-together-an-intellectual-life/
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Repost – Una McIlvenna: Getting Emotional…
Thought I’d just post a link to a really interesting piece by Una McIlvenna, about her experience of finding some previously undocumented ballads while teaching a class in Melbourne. https://www.objectsandemotions.org/blog/getting-emotional-about-handling-a-cache-of-early-modern-print
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Good news
Just a quick post to say that an article based on my paper at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth last year has been accepted for publication by Renaissance Studies, and that the Musici Trust has given me funding to have some digital images created of different examples of sixteenth century printed music…
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Emotional responses to music
It’s probably a couple of years since I last undertook an online course with FutureLearn, but a few weeks ago I signed up for a short course from Griffith University called Music Psychology: Why Does “Bohemian Rhapsody” Feel so Good? It was a simple introduction to some of the basic principles of music psychology, and…
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Spain
Although there are certain aspects of my job that I am less than happy about, I have to admit that it has brought me opportunities that even a few years ago I would have found difficult to imagine. Many of these revolve around the chance to travel to places I would otherwise not have seen,…
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From Inside Higher Ed: Study finds female professors experience more work demands
Study finds female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically “entitled” students. — Read on www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/10/study-finds-female-professors-experience-more-work-demands-and-special-favor
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XI CIHCE – Scripta in Itinere
I was privileged to be invited to the XI Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Cultura Escrita, held this June in Alcalá de Henares, which will for me be forever remembered as the city of storks – these enormous birds nest atop many of the old buildings around the Calle de Colegios, clacking their beaks…
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It’s like asking how you are…
…no-one really wants to know the true answer. At least that’s what my fiend said when I told him a few months ago that I’d decided to be honest about my precarity. Well, maybe people don’t, but maybe we should tell them more often. One of the difficult situations that I face when attending conferences…
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