Dr. des. Sarah Ross has recently finished her PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Theatre Rostock, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Ellen Koskoff (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester) and Prof. Hartmut Möller (University of Music and Theatre Rostock).

Key findings from the two year AHRC funded research project, "Performing Englishness in New English Folk Music and Dance", undertaken by Dr Trish Winter and BFE member Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps at the University of Sunderland Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, were presented on Tuesd

Dr Frances Wilkins has recently finished his PhD at the Elphinstone Institute, University of
Aberdeen, under the supervision of Dr Ian Russell. The focus of the thesis was sacred
singing traditions of North-East Scotland. The dissertation was the culmination of a three