Do they know it's Christmas?
CollegesMusicStudent experienceVolunteering

Do they know it's Christmas?

Music Outreach at Collingwood College I remember it being my second day at Collingwood, and receiving an email, asking for musical volunteers to help out at a local primary school. Without really another thought, I had got in touch with Indre, our Student Experience Officer, and had signed up to visiting Burnside Academy…
Music, Death, and the Seeds of Research: a conversational and collaborative approach
MusicPostgraduateResearchStudent experience

Music, Death, and the Seeds of Research: a conversational and collaborative approach

When someone mentions the humble PhD student the imagination often conjures a caricature of a bespectacled twenty-something year old buried in a book and chained to a desk. Research is often presented as isolated, but over the first half of my PhD at Durham I have found the opposite to be true; as we stand on the shoulders of…