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News Archive 2020

QUB Composers Take Over The Ulster Hall!
News | 6 January, 2020

Professor Piers Hellawell’s new orchestral work Symphonies in Chains was premiered by the Ulster Orchestra on Wednesday 8th January in the Ulster Hall, a BBC Invitation Concert for later Radio 3 broadcast.

JAM at Queen’s awarded Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation funding to “unlock hidden talent"
20 January, 2020

Queen’s Junior Music Academy (JAM) has been successful in the latest round of funding by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music.

AEL Welcomes Erasmus and Study Abroad Students
News | 20 January, 2020

Washington Ireland Leadership Program
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Congratulations to Rachel Ashe and Jason Bunting for being chosen for the Washington Ireland Leadership Program!

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Stephen Kelly (AEL) and Ryan Perry (Kent) awarded research grant of £366,511 from Leverhulme Trust

Many congratulations to Stephen Kelly and Ryan Perry (Kent) who have just been awarded £366,511 from the Leverhulme Trust for a project entitled 'Whittington’s Gift: Reconstructing the Lost Common Library of London’s Guildhall’. 

Stephen Sexton wins the prestigious EM Forster Award

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Dr Paul Murphy and partners awarded £234,600 from National Lottery Heritage Fund (NI)
Latest News | 8 April, 2020

Dr Paul Murphy (AEL) & Michaela Clarke (DARO) working with Deirdre Wildy (Special Collections & Archives) were awarded £234,600 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NI) for ‘Friel Reimagined: Connecting Diverse Audiences with Heritage’.

JAM 4: Tall Trees - Leave No One Behind
News | 5 June, 2020

Created by Koichi Samuels who runs JAM 4 creative music technology course, part of Junior Academy of Music, at QUB. The voices are pupils of Junior Academy of Music and some instrumental recordings are also included in the music.

Broadcast Subject Lead, Frank Delaney has won silver at the New York Radio Awards
11 June, 2020

Frank Delaney’s radio documentary won silver in the human rights section of the New York Radio awards.

JAM Virtual Summer Concert June 2020
29 June, 2020

The melody of “How can I keep from singing” will celebrate the end of the term for the Junior Academy of Music at QUB.

Recently graduated MA in Media and Broadcast Production Student Wins a SMEDIA (Student Media) Award
2 July, 2020

3rd year Broadcast Production student will be hosting a Royal Television Society Q&A Session
3 July, 2020

We are delighted to announce that one of our 3rd year Broadcast Production students Scott Duffield, will be hosting the Royal Television Society NI's Q&A - Writing The Salisbury Poisonings, Monday 6th July 2.00pm - 3.00pm RTS Zoom Onliine

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AEL Receive a Grant from the British Academy’s ‘Special Research Grants: Covid-19’ Funding Scheme
News | 6 July, 2020

Professor Janice Carruthers contributes to ‘Towards a National Languages Strategy'
News | 9 July, 2020

Professor Janice Carruthers, Professor of French Linguistics at the School of Arts, English and Languages was one of the researchers to make a major contribution to ‘Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills’ published on 8 July.

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Kurt Taroff & Ali Fitzgibbon secure funding to examine the impact of Covid-19 on Independent Theatre
News | 9 July, 2020

ISABEL TORRES
Isabel Torres admitted to British Academy
News | 24 July, 2020

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The future is bright for inspirational Queen’s student Shauna
16 July, 2020

SARC were delighted to present at IF 2020, a 24-hour online celebration of the arts on August 8th
Latest News | 12 August, 2020

SARC researchers win numerous awards at NIME 2020
Latest News | 27 July, 2020

SARC researchers past and present received awards at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), the leading conference in the field of new musical instrument design and performance, held online 21st-25th July.

Dr Franziska Schroeder awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Innovation Prize 2020
News | 17 December, 2020

Congratulations to Dr Franziska Schroeder who has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Innovation Prize 2020 for the work with her “Performance without Barriers” research group.

Dave Robb, Senior Lecturer, Music, talks about the Proclaimers Song ‘Sunshine on Leith’ on Radio 4
Latest News | 15 December, 2020

Dave Robb appears on Radio 4 as one of the guests talking about the song "Sunshine on Leith" and he also mentions a bit about his time when he toured as their support. It was part of Radio 4's weekly programme "Soul Music".

Prof Piers Hellawell's latest CD collection is listed among The Times/Sunday Times Best Albums 2020
14 December, 2020

Composer and Professor of Composition Piers Hellawell’s latest CD collection, ‘Up By The Roots’, is listed among The Times/Sunday Times Best Albums, the critics’ choices for 2020.

MA Media and Broadcast Student Kim Montgomery wins Anjool Maldé Journalism Award
News | 9 December, 2020

Kim Montgomery receive the prestegious Anjool Maldé Journalism prize for her work ‘43 Days’, which was produced as part of her Masters in Media and Broadcast Production 2019/20.

AHSS first Online Winter School 1-5 Feb 2021 PANDEMICS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
9 December, 2020

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is excited to announce our first Online Winter School taking place in February 2021.

Stephen Sexton, Lecturer in English, has been awarded the prestigious Rooney Prize
Latest News | 1 December, 2020

Irish poet, Stephen Sexton, has been awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2020, for his first collection of works, Oils & If All the World and Love Were Young.

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Queen's University Belfast A-Level Entrance Scholarship Competitions now open

All students who have entered Queen’s University for the first time to undertake a primary degree having achieved at least three 'A' grades at A-level, are eligible to enter the University's annual Entrance Scholarship Competition.

Queen’s Broadcast Production Programme welcomes Sir Kenneth Branagh virtually to QFT 12 Nov 2020
News | 11 November, 2020

The Belfast Media Festival presents Kenneth Branagh in conversation with Kathy Clugston. He talks about growing up in Belfast, his upcoming movies, his creative process and his memories of the QFT.

SARC PhD Graduate and Visiting Scholar Una Lee receives Oram Award 2020
News | 3 November, 2020

Congratulations to Una Lee, SARC PhD Graduate and Visiting Scholar who was named as one of this year's winners of The Oram Awards.

Dr Ali Fitzgibbon announced as finalist for major, international award.

'Sounding Conflict' Research Project Team shortlisted for Major Award
News | 5 October, 2020

Congratulations to the 'Sounding Conflict' Research Project Team who have been shortlisted for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2020 by The Times Higher Education Awards.

QUB Voices: Postgraduate Podcast
28 September, 2020

AEL PhD students have established a new podcast series - QUB Voices.

Former Spanish student receives the State Bar of Nevada 2020 Young Lawyer of the Year Award.
Major award for Law with Hispanic Studies graduate

Bronagh M Kelly, LLB 2010, who has been practicing law in the US since 2012, has received the State Bar of Nevada 2020 Young Lawyer of the Year Award. 

Dr Alison Garden Works with BBC NI to Create Four Programmes About Novels of Forbidden Love

Dr. Alison Garden, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the School of Arts English and Languages, has worked with BBC NI to put together a series of short programmes on four novels exploring the dangerous thrill of illicit love during the NI Troubles.

Dr Franziska Schroeder has gone post-internet and post-meme with VR composition/installation Mirage
17 September, 2020

Dr Franziska Schroeder has gone ‘post-internet and post-meme’ with her recent collaborative VR composition/installation “Mirage” - selected as part of the prestigious Ars Electronica 2020 Festival.

Completion of the Visual Voices of the Prisons Memory Archive Project
News | 17 September, 2020

Work has now completed on the Visual Voices of the Prisons Memory Archive project, a partnership between QUB staff based in AEL and the Public Record Office (PRONI), supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan has co-directed and produced "Gail" a series of animations

Broadcast lecturer Don Duncan has co-directed and produced “Gail”, the first in a series of animations of people from a unionist background who’ve discovered and learned Irish.

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