Author: Joan Murphy

Survey on Artistic Research: Performance, Teaching and Publication Practices [Now open]

Survey on Artistic Research: Performance, Teaching and Publication Practices

How are artistic performance, artistic research, teaching and academic publications recognised and evaluated in higher music education today?

Researchers from Széchenyi István University and Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting an international survey examining careers, working conditions and evaluation systems in Higher Music Education Institutions worldwide.

The study explores:

• the balance between artistic activity, artistic research, teaching and scholarly publication;

• promotion and career pathways in conservatoires and university music departments;

• institutional expectations regarding research output;

• the recognition of artistic research within evaluation and promotion systems;

• challenges faced by academic and artistic staff in different national contexts.

We are particularly interested in understanding how institutions evaluate publications in relation to artistic practice and artistic research, and how these expectations influence professional development.

We warmly invite academic staff, artistic researchers, performers, teachers, administrators and doctoral candidates working in higher music education to participate.

The questionnaire is anonymous and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Survey link:
https://elteppk.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_37pAuHb2hKyVDFQ

Your contribution will help provide an international overview of current practices and support evidence-based discussions on the future of evaluation systems in higher music education.

x4 Funded PhDs at Trinity College Dublin [Closing date June 26th]

Call for Applications – Funded PhD in Digital Humanities

Click on the hyperlinks below to download the call for four doctoral students will be funded under this award with specialisations across the domains of:

This unique multidisciplinary approach will provide the students with invaluable experiences and skills extending far beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, preparing them to become leaders in academia or industry settings. 

Sonraí, DANS, and CaSDaR Masterclass – influencing & advocating [22 June, online]

Practical masterclass on influencing stakeholders and advocating for data stewardship

Sonraí, DANS, and CaSDaR will hold an online masterclass on June 22nd

Effective data stewardship depends not only on technical expertise, but also on the ability to communicate its value to decision-makers and wider stakeholder groups.

Join Sonraí, DANS, and CaSDaR for a practical masterclass on influencing stakeholders and advocating for data stewardship.

In this interactive 2-hour webinar, data stewards will learn techniques to communicate ideas more persuasively with senior stakeholders and non-expert audiences. The session will cover:

  • How to develop a clear and compelling business case
  • Ways to use plain English to improve understanding and engagement
  • How to communicate styles for different audiences
  • How to build stakeholder understanding, support, and buy-in
  • How to present recommendations, proposals, and initiatives with greater impact

Participants will explore these approaches through the lens of communicating specialist and technical information to broader stakeholder groups, with practical tips that can be applied immediately in the workplace.

We look forward to welcoming data stewards, researchers, research support professionals, and anyone involved in advancing good data practices across their organisation.

Register and more information at this link: https://bit.ly/4ecruxA

Who is Responsible for the Archives? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethics in a Digital Age [June 26, Birmingham, online/in-person]

Who is Responsible for the Archives? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethics in a Digital Age

When: Friday 26 June 2026, 9:00–20:00
Where: Aston University, Susan Cadbury Lecture Theatre, and online

Archives are vital repositories for preserving the past, for documenting the present, and for building memories and legacies for the future. Although they hold relevance to everybody’s history and affect society as a whole, they have long been the purview of a limited group of archivists and historians. In recent years, this has begun to change: archives, both as documents and as repositories, have received increasing attention from scholars across diverse disciplines and also from the broader public.

However, if questions of representation, digital transformation, and long-term preservation have become central to contemporary debates, issues related to ethics remain often limited to legal compliance or confined to a limited group of specialists. Building on previous debates including the US 2018 National Forum on Ethics & Archiving the Web and the ICA’s 2022 Ethics and Archives Online Discussion, and also on the ARA’s ongoing work in this area, this conference seeks to expand this discussion by bringing together experts and practitioners from all fields.

Practical Information and Registration

Draft Programme: https://www.aston.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/AUAC-2026-conference-programme-ONGOING.pdf

Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) at Leeds [10 July, Leeds, in person]

Registrations for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) at Leeds will close on Wednesday, 10 June 2026.

In partnership with the University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS), University of Leeds Libraries, and Digital Medievalist, the Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) presents a full-day programme featuring workshops on digital scholarly methods specifically tailored for medievalists.

DMSI UK will take place on Friday, 10 July 2026 in conjunction with the International Medieval Congress (IMC), University of Leeds. We still have a number of places in the following five workshops:

  • TEI for Beginners: Encoding Text and Extracting Data (Sebastian Dows-Miller, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University College London)
  • Using Local LLMs and VLMs: Prompting, Structuring, and Automating with Medieval Data (Delphine Demelas, Southampton Digital Humanities, University of Southampton)
  • Nodegoat Curious: Building a Custom Relational Database for Your Research (Pim van Bree, LAB1100; Geert Kessels, LAB1100; Jesse W. Torgerson, Wesleyan University)
  • Artificial Intelligence: Image Analysis Applied to Medieval Manuscripts (Dominique Stutzmann, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)
  • Manuscript Materiality in a Digital World (Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries) 

Please note that if you have already registered for the IMC, you can add DMSI to your existing registration. If you are only interested in participating in DMSI, there are no additional late registration fees for DMSI. For more information and registration, please consult the DMSI UK webpage.