[Image Credit: Ion Chibzii wikimedia Commons share and share alike licence] As my AHRC-funded Leadership Fellowship draws to a close (thank you UKRI!) I am still working away on drawing together the findings from more than 70 interviews with musicians, festival and venue organisers, police, local authority civil servants, music teachers, charity execs, luthiers and … Continue reading Register here for Report Launch event: Music in the Rural Creative Economy, Inverness, Monday 5th December
Month: October 2022
The Impact of Covid on Scottish Traditional Arts
Alongside Dr Jasmine Hornabrook, I have been conducting an impact study on the effects of Covid on Scottish traditional arts. The report will be published shortly by Creative Scotland. However, here is a video of the talk I gave as keynote at the Traditional Music Forum's annual meeting day at Perth Museum on the 1st … Continue reading The Impact of Covid on Scottish Traditional Arts
Call for papers: Representing the Body: Contemporary media Discourse and the real
Call for Papers Representing The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The Real Symposium Friday 28th April 2023 Venue: Glasgow Caledonian University Deadline for abstracts: 16th December 2022 Please consider submitting a paper or roundtable proposal for our one-day symposium to be held at Glasgow Caledonian University focused upon ‘The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The … Continue reading Call for papers: Representing the Body: Contemporary media Discourse and the real
Simon McKerrell 