Merton Tutor awarded Leverhulme Trust research grant

Dr Daniel Grimley, Tutor in Music, has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust research grant of £118,000 for Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound, an international research network which will "transform our sense of sound in landscape, and investigate how landscape shapes music. It seeks to bring music closer to art history and cultural geography: by embracing an interdisciplinary methodology and bringing together scholars from diverse geographical contexts, it seeks to prompt new ways of thinking about sound, music, space, and place."

The network will be based at Oxford, in close collaboration with the universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Harvard (USA), and will bring together scholars and practitioners at a series of international symposia and through an online forum hosted by the network partners dedicated to interactive dialogue and discussion.

Dr Grimley has also been nominated by his students for an OUSU Teaching Award this year, in the category 'Most Acclaimed Lecturer (Humanities)'.