Research Blogs/Sites
This post is to share information about some research blogs that have been helpful to me in my research journey:
The thesis whisperer has contributors from all over the world and gives tips on writing, books, presenting, ‘stuff’, your career – it’s a great site to go when you need a break http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/
Another is ‘Patter’, or ‘Writing for journals’ – a great blog with fantastic info about – you guessed it – all you needed to know about writing for journals! http://patthomson.wordpress.com/writing-for-journals/
A blog by one of our own members I recommend is https://jessplainsong.wordpress.com/.
One of my favourite research sites is www.Phinished.org . There are discussion boards, help desks, Phorums, Phinally (for when you’re Phinished!), lots of links. While the site is US based, it still has relevance for Australian researchers.
I hope these links are of interest to you. Please share any sites you may have found helpful to your research journey.
Studying – the picture!
This just captured how I’ve been feeling lately! (sorry – I couldn’t resist adding just one frivolous post!)
CMPCP Visiting Fellowships Scheme – Phase 2 (1 October 2012 to 31 March 2013)
Applications are invited for short-term Visiting Fellowships based at the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP). These Fellowships are offered on a competitive basis to musicologists, musicians and those working in cognate fields from the UK and overseas who wish to spend up to three months undertaking collaborative research at any one of the Centre’s partner institutions, i.e. University of Cambridge, King’s College London, University of Oxford, and Royal Holloway, University of London. Visiting Fellows will have the opportunity to gain exposure to CMPCP’s research activities, to share their work with CMPCP staff and students both at the institution where they are based and throughout CMPCP, and to contribute to the activities supported by the Performance Studies Network. Each Visiting Fellow will be able to claim for eligible maintenance expenses incurred during the period of the Fellowship up to a stated maximum; relevant travel costs to and/or within the UK will also be reimbursed, subject to prior approval.
The research undertaken during a CMPCP Visiting Fellowship must address, whether directly or indirectly, one or more of the following research questions, which lie at the heart of CMPCP’s work in general:
– How is musical performance creative, and what knowledge is creatively embodied in musical performance?
– How does music in performance – and the very act of performance – take shape over time?
– How does understanding musical performance as a creative practice vary across different global contexts, idioms and performance conditions?
Applicants for Visiting Fellowships are expected to have completed a doctorate, or to have equivalent professional experience prior to applying.
The Visiting Fellowship scheme is divided into five phases. Phase 2 will begin on 1 October 2012 and end on 31 March 2013. Applications for Phase 2 must be submitted by 5 pm on Friday 1 June 2012.
Full guidance notes and an application form can be found by following the link at http://www.cmpcp.ac.uk/fellowships.html. The guidance notes contain important information about the Fellowships and the application process which should be carefully noted by prospective applicants.
Enquiries to Dr David Mawson (CMPCP Coordinator) at dgm41@cam.ac.uk
2012 ACSPRI Winter Program
The 2012 Winter Program is easily the largest ACSPRI Program ever held in Sydney, with around twenty separate five-day courses on offer across the two weeks. It is being held in Sydney in time for the RC33 8th International Conference on Social Sciences Methodology hosted by University of Sydney from 9th – 13th July, which hundreds of researchers from around the world are expected to attend. See http://www.rc33.org for more details.
For the 2012 ACSPRI Winter Program, a full list of all courses on offer, the online booking facility and various other program details are available at http://www.acspri.org.au/winterprogram2012. Queries, including assistance with bookings, can be sent to mailto:winter2012@acspri.org.au.
While there is still some time before the Early Bird Deadline date (8th May), recent history tells us that several courses are likely to book out well before the pre Early Bird Deadline rush – so be quick!
Function of the Singing Voice – KTH course 2012
Are you wondering about questions such as:
- Where should I place the mic and what recorder should I use?
- How is the voice used in blues, rock, soul, pop, belt….?
- How do the breathing habits affect the voice timbre?
- What factors decide the personal voice colour?
- Why is the room so horrible to sing in?
- Why doesn’t this sound expressive?
- How do my vocal folds look?
- Why do the folds vibrate?
- What is resonance?
The course will provide the answers!
Main teacher: JOHAN SUNDBERG.
Masterclass Wednesday evening: HÃ…KAN HAGEGÃ…RD.
Time: Monday, July 30 – Friday, August 3, 2012.
Place: Sandvik, Malmköping Sweden, (a wonderful idyllic place 115 km southwest of Stockholm,
with a lake with beavers and surrounded by fields and woods with moose and deer).
Format: Half lectures, half workshops, where participants can watch their voice production
in real-time.
Language: English. Passed exam yields 7.5 European credit points.
No tuition fee for European Union citizens, Housing available in nearby village Malmköping.
Meals will be served at Sandvik.
If you are interested, send an email to Johan Sundberg
jsu@csc.kth.se
Places in the course are limited to 25, so an early response will increase your chance of a place of being a participant.
I attended the course in 2009 and found it to be one of the most valuable experiences to improve and enhance my singing performance, research and teaching of all the professional development courses I’ve undertaken. I would highly recommend the course to any singer or singing teacher wishing to improve their knowledge of the singing voice. Â (Cathy Aggett)
Journeys Across Media
Thursday 19th April 2012
Time Tells: Temporal Excavations in Film, Theatre and Television
JAM (Journeys Across Media) 2012 is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the theme of time. The conference seeks to address issues of time in film, theatre, television, and more widely in performance, media and art, and initiate discussions about the temporal across disciplines, practices and fields of research.
Modernity has often been perceived through ever more urgent temporal demands; modern technologies and art forms (film, television, video) have also been examined as time-based media. Film has been discussed as an imprint of time itself. Debates around representations of time, organisation of time in film, the experience of film time, or film as an archival entity have been only a few of the approaches to the rich investigations of cinematic time.
The most prominent link between time and television is that of ‘liveness’, which highlights the contemporaneous nature of some broadcast television.  This is heightened when the broadcast is for a special occasion (i.e. a Royal Wedding or Charity Event) and the notion of sharing a ‘television moment’.  Although an under-researched area, television and memory rely on understanding the role that time plays within this relationship.  Explorations of the impact ‘represented time’ and ‘real time’ have on the structure and identity of fiction television programming, have also been central.
As with screen media, in theatre, the physical presence of time on stage, the endurance of performer and spectator,consideration of the aesthetics of duration in discussing time-based and durational modes of performance, and time as a framing device for a performance are only some of the areas of focus when discussing the temporal. In addition, time is vitally important in the construction of gestural narratives.  Concepts like instantaneity, rhythm, repetition or duration are very important and crossover into Deaf and disability performance practices.
This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses around time to submit papers for the JAM 2012conference; topics may include, but are not restricted to:
Perception of time
Time and memory
Spatialisation of time/Time-Space
Cinematic time
Time and technology
Time and New Media
The archive
Revivals, Anniversary Productions, Retrospectives and Re-enactments
Sequels, Series and Recurring Characters
The Evolution of the Spectator in Time
Endurance Art
Debates on Ephemerality within performance
Life-as-art
The experience and performance of Duration
Time-based performance
Timelessness
Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2012 is the 10th annual international conference for postgraduate students, organized by postgraduates working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading. It provides a discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre, television and new media. Previous delegates have welcomed this opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work at different stages of development in one of the most established postgraduate conferences in the country, and within the active, friendly and supportive research environment of the Film, Theatre & Television department at the University of Reading.
Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome to the conference.
CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 3rd February 2012
Please send a 250-word abstract for a fifteen-minute paper and a 50-word biographical note to Tonia Kazakopoulou, Johnmichael Rossi, Simon Floodgate, Edina Husanovic, Deborah Marman-Ngome and Martin O’Brien at jam2012@reading.ac.uk.  Proposals for practice-as-research presentations/performances are warmly invited; these have to conform to the 15-minute format.
A limited number of travel bursaries may be available for the JAM Conference 2012, offered by the Film, Theatre and Television Department at the University of Reading; please fill in the relevant section on the registration form if you wish to apply. For further details and registration forms please visit the conference website:http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/pg-research/ftt-pgrjam.aspx
Journeys Across Media is supported by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at Reading, the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) and the Graduate School, University of Reading.