<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">----- Forwarded Message -----</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Aidan Thomson <aidanjohnthomson@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 8, 2012 1:05 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> SMI circular - 8 November 2012: PhD bursary for opera studies at Oxford Brookes University<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><br></span></b></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">School of Arts Doctoral Bursary in
Music (Opera Studies)</span></b></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Faculty of
Technology, Design and Environment</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span><br></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The School of Arts at Oxford Brookes
University is pleased to
announce that it is able to offer a Doctoral Bursary to a new PhD student in
Music for full time study commencing in January 2013. The successful applicant
will have course fees waived and will be awarded a bursary of £10,000 per annum
for three years (with no inflation increase).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span><br></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The PhD
student will be supervised by Dr Alexandra Wilson, Reader in Musicology.
Proposals are invited in any area of the discipline of opera studies. Dr Wilson
has particular research interests in the following areas: </span></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">19<sup>th</sup>- and 20<sup>th</sup>-century
Italian opera (especially Puccini)</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Opera’s social, political and
aesthetic contexts (particularly in Italy and Britain)</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Reception studies </span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Contemporary operatic culture </span></li>
<li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Opera’s interaction with other
art-forms, particularly film</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Gender </span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">National identities</span></li>
<li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Singers and recording culture</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Staging issues</span></li></ul><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">For full
details of Alexandra Wilson’s research expertise visit:</span></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">http://arts.brookes.ac.uk/staff/details/a_wilson/</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span><br></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">It is
expected that the student will support the activities of the OBERTO opera research
unit (Oxford Brookes: Exploring Research Trends in Opera) and the growth of the
research culture in this field at Oxford
Brookes University.
For further information about OBERTO visit: http://arts.brookes.ac.uk/oberto/</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span><br></div>
<div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The
selection criteria will focus on academic excellence, suitability of the
research environment for your project and references.<span> </span>If you would like to apply you should submit
a full research proposal together with a supporting statement of no more than 500
words summarising:</span></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Your reasons for undertaking
this project</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Preparation undertaken and
previous research experience</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The ways in which this bursary
will make a difference to your research</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span><br></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">In
addition, you will need to apply for a PhD at Oxford Brookes
University through UKPASS
and submit the following supporting documents to Jenny Heaton
<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jheaton@brookes.ac.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:jheaton@brookes.ac.uk">jheaton@brookes.ac.uk</a> by <span style="color:red;">12pm<span style="color:red;"> on</span> <span style="color:red;">5 December
2012</span></span><span style="color:red;">.</span></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;" type="disc"><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Full research proposal (together with the supporting statement outlined above)<br></span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Copy of Passport (if
applicable)</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">IELTS Certificate or equivalent
(if applicable)</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Two academic references</span></li><li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Degree Certificate(s)</span></li>
<li class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Transcript(s)</span></li></ul><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">UKPASS</span></div><div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://pgapp.ukpass.ac.uk/ukpasspgapp/login.jsp">https://pgapp.ukpass.ac.uk/ukpasspgapp/login.jsp</a></span></div>
<div class="yiv731708703MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Closing
date: <span style="color:red;">5 December 2012<span style="color:red;"> (12pm)</span></span></span></div>
<br>Informal enquiries about this bursary should be addressed directly to Dr Alexandra Wilson: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:alexandra.wilson@brookes.ac.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:alexandra.wilson@brookes.ac.uk">alexandra.wilson@brookes.ac.uk</a><div><div>
<img></div></div><br clear="all"><span><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>OBERTO - Oxford Brookes Exploring Research Trends in Opera<br>Oxford Brookes University<br>School of Arts<br>Richard Hamilton Building<br>
Oxford OX3 0BP<br>United Kingdom<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://arts.brookes.ac.uk/oberto/">http://arts.brookes.ac.uk/oberto/</a><br><br>
</font></span></blockquote><br></div><br></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr Aidan Thomson<div>Hon Secretary, Society for Musicology in Ireland</div><div>Reviews Editor, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland</div>
<div>School of Creative Arts</div><div>Queen's University Belfast</div><div>Belfast BT7 1NN</div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="">+44 (0)28 9097 5208</a></div><div>
<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:aidanjohnthomson@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:aidanjohnthomson@gmail.com">aidanjohnthomson@gmail.com</a></div>
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