I was privileged to lead development of our distance-learning, part-time, international MA in Music, which has been really successful this year. We're now open for registration for September starts and look forward to welcoming our next cohort of students open.ac.uk/postgraduate/q…

Looking forward to this conference next week - programme now available, online and in London. Creativity, Creative Arts and Neurodivergence fass.open.ac.uk/research/group…

I managed to miss this but looking forward to catching up on a fascinating set of presentations arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/successful-nih…

Registration is now open for the NABMSA symposium 10-12 July, Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies. We have a great set of papers and some exciting keynotes to look forward to. nabmsaconferences.org

Recent paper The Open University OU Arts & Social Sciences Professor Rosemary Golding #health #arts #grief #loss #writing #poetry Interested in further discussion and #creative #collaboration

The Government has just published its disability cuts Bill. No-one can pretend anymore that they don't know what this Bill is really all about. The cover of the Bill makes it very clear. This Bill is "to restrict eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment."

The “welfare reform bill” is out and let’s be clear: this is not reform - it is devastating cuts. Disabled people will be made poorer, sicker, and more isolated as a result. That it is a Labour government causing this misery will be a mark of shame on the party for years to come.

Cfp "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world" Université Paris Nanterre March 19th-21st, 2026: whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-paper… Deadline for abstracts September 1st, 2025. [email protected]

'Seeing Through: Shifting Perspectives in the Visual Medical Humanities' We have calls for papers in your subject area. Discover our topic collection: bit.ly/467QnYG

The 2nd in the provocative trilogy of papers on #madness, #creativity & #sense I wrote with Roxana Baiasu is out in Italian philosophy journal “Iride”. We find meaning and sense in #madness (both vulnerable and resilient). This is #ACreativeTransformation. rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1414/11…

Great to see students signing up for our MA in Music, offered part-time over two years. We cover a wide range of music studies, and you can choose your specialism throughout. No prior formal music study required. Deadline 14 August open.ac.uk/postgraduate/q…

Final day for enrolment on our part-time, distance Music MA. We've had great feedback from last year's cohort and are looking forward to welcoming a new set of students in September. Students need good academic skills, but no prior music study is required.

Tunnock Prize: essay competition for postgraduate students and ECRs focussed on the use and interpretation of Scottish archives both within Scotland and further afield. deadline 31 October scottishrecordsassociation.org/tunnock-prize/

cfp for this fascinating online event Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900, 5 December, deadline 6 October. birmingham.ac.uk/events/object-…

Art as refuge conference 19-20 September: such an important topic and a fabulous programme outsidein.org.uk/art-as-refuge-…

Great to see the full programme now available for this fascinating online conference on literature and letters digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/

The BAVS Funding deadline is 30 November at 5pm. Full details below!

Spotted: funding lse.ac.uk/International-…