It’s amazing what can change in six months! I was successful in my AHRC networking grant application – for more details, please do visit the new project website, https://claimedfromstationershall.wordpress.com/ .…
And the Next Step?
Well, I recently clicked “Send” on my application for an AHRC Networking grant. I know it has to be checked over before it actually gets to the AHRC, but it…
Claimed from Stationers’ Hall
I contributed a blogpost about my research, to Echoes from the Vault, which is the highly-esteemed blog of the University of St Andrews Library Rare Books department. Blogpost direct link:…
Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
I’m writing an AHRC Networking grant application to widen research into historic British legal deposit music. I’ve already made significant steps in my research into the collection at the University…
Being a Music Librarian: Never a Typical Day
What do academic music librarians do? There’s never a typical day. Today, I’ve catalogued a shiny new series of Paris Conservatoire competition anthologies for various instruments; am working my way…
40% Researcher? Yes, Indeed!
Historical Music of Scotland website Betweeen October 2012 and October 2015, I was seconded part-time as postdoctoral researcher to the Bass Culture project – an AHRC-funded musicology project looking at…
Lady Librarian becomes Revalidated Fellow
If you’ve read my blog before, you’ll already know about my slightly schizophrenic simultaneous existence as music librarian and postdoctoral researcher. Depending on the day of the week, I’m either…
October 2015 – only 7 months away!
I’m currently seconded to an AHRC research project for two days a week, but it’ll come to an end in mid-October. Where has the time gone?! We’ve visited loads of…
New Year’s Resolutions?
At this time of year, it feels appropriate to do some inner reflection. In my case, I made a careful list of all the CPD I’d done in 2014 ……
Do You Practise What You Preach?
(First posted on my Teaching Artist blog) Recent training sessions that I’ve received and given, have prompted me to ask myself whether I actually practise what I preach. (Most of…