Research Projects

Professor Wiebke Thormählen teams up with other scholars and the National Trust to explore the sounds of a historic house.

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Dive into a World of Immersive Sound is an exciting array of immersive audio research projects led by RNCM staff and doctoral researchers in Popular Music.

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The RNCM is quickly becoming one of the world-leading research institutions for embodied scientific investigation on the use of music for people with Parkinson’s.

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Research by Annika Forkert charts the musical work of composer Elisabeth Lutyens and conductor Edward Clark, two innovators in British music of the twentieth century. 

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The Music and Entrepreneurship project explores how best to prepare our students to actively shape the future of the music industry.

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This project studies how the RNCM Children’s Opera project impacts on the confidence and social inclusion attitudes of primary school children.

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Julia Perry was an exceptional and talented mid-twentieth-century composer who achieved greatness in a world not moulded in her image.

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Bringing the music of the city and wider region in WWI to life through interactive performances, workshops, exhibitions, and online resources.

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Research by Dr Cheryll Duncan demonstrates the importance of legal documents to historical musicology.

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