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Graduate Wins Travel Award
Thomas Hodgson (Wadham) has been made a major award by the Gerry Farrell Travelling Scholarship. The money is to enable him to travel to Pakistan and India as part of his DPhil in ethnomusicology.
Tom writes: ‘My award is to travel to Pakistan and India for a period of two to three months, during which time I will study the shehnai (double-reed wind instrument), as well as improve my Urdu. The trip is intended to complement my next year of doctoral study, which will involve a year's fieldwork in Bradford's Pakistani community.’
The Gerry Farrell Scholarships are intended to support travel in pursuit of identified research objectives in the UK or abroad through a contribution towards the costs of travel and subsistence.
Gerry Farrell (1951–2003) was well regarded both as an ethnomusicologist and a musician, and well known as a lecturer in Europe and India. He was also a sitarist, having studied under Debu Chaudhuri in Dehli. He wrote extensively on all aspects of Indian music, ethnomusicology and music education, and included several books among his output. Farrell’s publications include Indian Music in Education and Indian Music and the West.