Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
- Affiliate (School of Critical Studies)
email:
Brianna.Robertson-Kirkland@glasgow.ac.uk
R401, Level 4, 14 University Gardens, School of Culture & Creative Arts, Glasgow
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1482-3721Research interests
Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is the Lead Research Associate for the AHRC-funded project 'The Edited Collection of Allan Ramsay' at the University of Glasgow. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Chawton House (2017) and the University of Sydney (2017 & 2019) with her most recent visit culminating in several practice-based, collaborative performances between Scotland’s Concerto Caledonia and Melbourne’s Evergreen Ensemble. Her research has fed into the historically led album Curious Caledonians (2020). Recent publications include Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing Scandalous Lessons (2022) and Allan Ramsay’s The Tea Table Miscellany co-edited with Professor Murray Pittock and due to be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2023. She is on the board of the British Society of Eighteenth-century Studies and is the Music editor for BSECS Criticks and teh Honorary Secretary for the Society for Theatre Researc. She established the successful ECR mentoring scheme for the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837.
Grants
- 2023: BSECS-Georgian Papers Project Fellow (exploring Dora Jordan's correspondance)
- 2023: WSG Busary Recipient
- 2021-2023: Scotland's Singing for Health Network, RSE Network Grant
- 2019: Curious Caledonians, University of Glasgow-University of Sydney Collaboration Grant
- 2010–Present: Lanfine Choral Scholar, : University of Glasgow Chapel Choir
- 2014/15 College of Arts Intern Studentship
- 2012/13, 2013/14 & 2014/15 McGlashan Charitable Award
- 2014: School of Culture and Creative Arts Support Award: grant towards the digitisation of 24 Solfeggi or Exercises for the Voice by Venanzio Rauzzini
- 2012: Lanarkshire Education Award, PhD
- 2011: Lanarkshire Education Award, MMus Historically Informed Performance
- 2011: Edward Caird Award, College List, University of Glasgow, MMus Historically Informed Performance
Conference Grants
- 2016: British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference grant, Women and Education in the Long Eighteenth Century workshop at Glasgow Women's Library
- 2016: New Inititatives Fund Women and Education in the Long Eighteenth Century workshop at GWL
- 2014: Chancellor's Fund, Sound Thought, Postgraduate Music Festival
- 2014: Creative Practice Award, Sound Thought, Postgraduate Music Festival Open Day
Travel Grants
- 2017: Stephen Copley Award, British Association for Romantic Studies, trip to London
- 2017: British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Chawton House Visiting Fellowship
- 2017: The Ross Fund, College of Arts, 1 month trip to Sydney to exlpore the Stewart Symonds Collection at the Sydney Living Museums
- 2016: University of Glasgow School of Culture and Creative Arts Research Award
- 2015: Music and Letters Grant, trip to 1st Transnational Opera Studies Conference, University of Bologna
- 2015: Sir Fitzroy McLean Travel Scholarship Award, University of Glasgow
- 2015: The Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum of Instruments Bursary Award 2015 for Projects Relating to Music Pre-1820
- 2015: ASECS Traveling Jam Pot
- 2015: University of Glasgow College of Arts Research Award
- 2015: University of Glasgow School of Culture and Creative Arts Research Award
- 2014: College of Arts Support Award: travel to London in order to research first study sources at the British Library
- 2012: WGS Next Generation Bursary, Conference trip to Royal Music Association in Hull
Teaching
- Musicology
- Music History
- Listening and Repertory
- Opera
- Music of Scotland
- Music in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Performance Practice
- Performance (Course administrative assistant)
- eSharp Peer Review Workshop for postgraduate students
- Kelvingrove review, book review workshop for postgraduate students
- Hunterian Associate programme for postgraduate students, workshop leader, 'Digital Media'
Additional information
Conference Committee
2020-2023: BSECS Academic Conference Organiser
15 May 2018: Women's Studies Group Annual Workshop, Foundling Museum, London
8 September 2016: Women and Education in the long 18th century, in collaboration with the Glasgow Women's Library
22 May 2014: 'Dialogue Across Decades' eSharp, 10th Anniversary Conference (General Editor)
10-12 January 2014: Sound Thought Beta (Creative Director)
Professional Affiliations
- College of Arts Intern
- Higher Education Academy
- Royal Musical Association
- British Association for Romantic Studies
- Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies
- British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
- American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
- The University of Glasgow Chapel Choir
- Hunterian Associate
- Chartered Management Institutute
- Chair, Sound Thought 2014
- General Editor, eSharp & The Kelvingrove Review 2013/14
- Creator and Editor, Sound Thought Creative Practice Journal (in association with eSharp), 2013/14
Professional Recognition
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Level 3 Award in First Line Management, Chartered Management Institutute
Additional Activities
- 2013-Present: Peer reviewer, eSharp (University of Glasgow), The Kelvingrove Review (University of Glasgow), Skepsi (University of Kent)
- 2016: Public Engagement Intern, Research Strategy and Innovation Office, University of Glasgow
- 2016: Research Intern, Glasgow University's Great War: A Centenary Project, Archives, University of Glasgow
- 2016: PGR representative for the REF working group, Music, University of Glasgow
- 2016: PGR representative for the College of Arts Development Board, University of Glasgow
- 2014: Research Assistant, College of Arts, Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow
