Juniper Hill has been awarded a research grant from the European Union worth over one quarter of a million euros to work on her project "Sociocultural Enablers and Inhibitors of Musical Creativity: A Cross-Cultural Comparison." She will be taking a two-year research leave from her permanent position at University College Cork, Ireland, to be a Marie Curie Fellow in the Faculty of Music at Cambridge University. At Cambridge she will be collaborating with musicologist Nicholas Cook and the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice. The project will also involve fieldwork in Finland and California.