Barbara Kelly - Curriculum Vitae#
Higher Education
- 1984 - 2008 University of Glasgow, M.A. Hons. Music and English Literature
- 1988 - 1990 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.M. in Musicology
- 1990 - 1994 University of Liverpool, Ph.D thesis: Darius Milhaud and the French Musical Tradition
Academic Appointments and Roles
- Sept. 1993 Lecturer in Music and Senior Course Tutor, University College Scarborough
- March 2008 Professor of Musicology
- Jan. 2012 Head of Humanities Research, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- July 2014 Faculty Research Director, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- April 2015 ff Director of Research, RNCM
- April 2015 ff Visiting Professor, Keele University
Membership of Professional Organisations
- Member of Council of the Royal Musical Association (2004 – 2007)
- Ordinary member of the American Musicological Society
- Collaborator with the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique, Université de Montréal.
- Vice-President of the Royal Musical Association, Chair of the Search Committee (2015 - 2019)
- Member of Scientific Advisory Board of IReMUS
- Incoming President of the RMA (2020 - 2023)
Selective successful grant applications
- Léon Vallas project, British Academy, Small Research Grant (2008-9); Musical League of Nations (2017-18)
- Keele University, Research Leave (1998, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2014)
- AHRC Research Fellowship (January-July 2011) (c. £40,000)
- Workshop Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, November 2010 (c. £40,000)
- AHRC CDA studentship with Conway Hall (c. £40,000), 2015-2018
- AHRC First World War Public Engagment Centres, PI on Grant, Making Music in Manchester during WW1, RNCM with partners, Central Library, Manchester and Hallé Concerts Society (2016) (£20,000)
- Co-I, AHRC-funded project: Accenting the Classics with Birmingham Conservatoire, http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH/N006704/1 (£453,948.67).
- European Commission Marie Curie Post-doc grant (2015-17) (c. €183,455) [2 successful applications]
- Research England Grant, Expanding Excellence funding (£914,000)