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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
A world-leading, inclusive and collaborative centre for research in Music and the Performing Arts
The Conservatoire has an excellent track record in attracting external funding for its research. Find out more about research led by performance at Birmingham City University.
Research clusters
Much of our research work
is grouped into clusters, which provide the opportunity for specialists to interact with and enrich each other's work, as well as collaborating with other researchers, performers and organisations across the UK and internationally.
Composition and Experimental Performance
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Early Music and Sonic Heritage
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Forum for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music
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French Music Research Hub
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Integra Lab
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Interdisciplinary Performative Arts
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Jazz Studies
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Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Music
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Aural Histories: Coventry, c.1451-1642
The aim of this project is to explore the changing experience of music in late-medieval and early-modern Coventry, through a series of performances and recordings within VR reconstructions of its lost performing spaces – most notably including St Michael’s Cathedral, destroyed during the blitz of 1940.
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Want to take your music or performing arts research to the next level? Studying a PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire could be your next step!
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PhD Opportunities
We have a thriving postgraduate research community here at Birmingham City University. Find out about PhD opportunities at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire here.
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Sonic Heritage and Environmental Change on England’s East Coast
This ambitious research project is funded by UKRI as part of the prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship scheme and will run from October 2025-September 2029. It seeks to preserve, reconstruct, and understand the soundscapes of the East Coast.
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Research Staff
Our research staff are internationally prominent performers, composers and musicologists. Find out more about their expertise here.
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Historical Instrument Collection
Browse the online catalogue of historical instruments by instrument and by maker at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
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CreaTech Frontiers
CreaTech Frontiers
is a
5-year
£7.2million
project funded by
the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI),
aiming to drive research and development, business innovation and skills and playing
an instrumental role within the creative industries ecosystem across the West Midlands.
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Birmingham Music Education Research Group
We work closely with Birmingham Music and Education Research Group (B-MERG). B-MERG is concerned with all styles, genres and traditions of music and values equality of access. The research group works with a diverse range of children and young people, including those with SEND and other personal challenges to learning.
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