School of Creative Arts

Alison Metoudi, a Creative Arts student has been congratulated by Justice Minister David Ford for winning third prize in a cross border Justice and Equality photography competition, aimed at raising awareness of human trafficking.

“I would like to pay particular tribute to Alison Metoudi who is studying for a Masters degree in Film and Visual Studies at Queen’s who won third prize in the photography competition. Alison’s photograph is a powerful illustration of the suffering and distress associated with human trafficking.”

Full details on this story can be read by clicking the link below:

http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/ford-congratulates-qub-student-on-photography-award?WT.mc_id=rss-news

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The University seeks applicants for a DEL-funded interdisciplinary PhD project in the area of numerical methods for sound synthesis and sound design. Details regarding the studentship can be found at:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/PhD/PostgraduateResearchScholarships/

Deadline for Submission of Applications: 15 February 2013

For any further enquiries please contact Dr Maarten van Walstijn (m.vanwalstijn@qub.ac.uk)

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The School is pleased to announce a total of FIVE studentships in 2013. This includes one award for an international student, one strategic scholarship and three DEL studentships which are available to national and EU applicants for the 2013-2014 academic year.

International Award:

This will be allocated to the strongest candidate applying for postgraduate study in any area within the School

Strategic Scholarship Award: 

Interactive Documentary Design - the Prisons Memory Archive. Contact c.mclaughlin@qub.ac.uk for further information see (www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com)


DEL Studentships:

In addition, there will be up to three additional studentships available for research in any of the following areas:

Sonic Arts (including creative practice in performance and composition)

Drama (including practice-based research)

Film (including practice-based research) 

Musicology and Instrumental Composition

Click here to go to the School Funding Pages

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Susan  Graham, a Masters student from the School of Creative Arts, has won the Northern Ireland Singer award and the Overall Vocal Championship at Ballymena music featival this year.  Susan had this to say to us:

"It was a great honour for me to win the Northern Ireland Singer and Overall Vocal Champion awards at Ballymena Festival this year.  There are always many very accomplished singers competing at Ballymena and although it is ultimately a competition, the atmosphere is always friendly and supportive. I owe many thanks to my teacher Jenny Bourke and my accompanist Emma Gibbins, whose guidance and support have played a significant role in my recent success."

http://www.ballymenafestival.org.uk/

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A core aim of Arts & Business Northern Ireland is to support the cultural sector to diversify income and engage with the private sector. We believe that both strategic leadership and strong fundraising capabilities are vital to a thriving and energised cultural sector.

 

A&B Northern Ireland has secured funding for a pilot project which will focus on developing the next generation of arts fundraisers by giving 4 recent arts graduates the fantastic opportunity of paid internships with not-for-profit arts & cultural organisations in NI to undertake a specific, measurable fundraising project.

 

Please, would you circulate the attached leaflet and application form to graduates/individuals you think may be interested in the prospect of becoming an arts fundraiser/manager.

 

The Intern application deadline is 12.00pm Monday 17 June 2013.

 

For more information and online application form please go to: http://www.artsandbusinessni.org.uk/

 

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The Thomas Devlin Fund Bursaries scheme for 2013 is now open.

This year’s theme is music and will offer awards of up to £1500 to young people between the age of 15 and 19, in order to enhance their talent.

Applicants should demonstrate:

· Need for genuine financial assistance
· Prospect for development of their potential
· How the award will make a difference to the individual and to others in their community.

Application forms can be downloaded from: http://www.communityfoundationni.org/Grants/Thomas-Devlin-Fund 
Closing date for completed applications is 5pm on 17th June 2013

For more information, please contact Barbara Woods on bwoods@communityfoundationni.org

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Dr Gascia Ouzounian, Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, will speak at Oxford University on 14 March in support of the publication of Music Sound and Space: Transformations of Private and Public Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2013). The collection is edited by Georgina Born, Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and chair of the international research programme 'Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies'. 

Music, Sound and Space is described as 'the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life'. Dr Ouzounian's chapter, 'Sound Installation Art: From Spatial Poetics to Politics, Aesthetics to Ethics', examines the emergence and development of sound installation art since the 1950s, specifically looking at how sonic art works have changed in relation to evolving concepts of space and spatiality.

For more about Music, Sound and Space please visit: http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521764247#contributors

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