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Leverhulme Success
Dr Joanna Bullivant, Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2010-2012. The Fellowship will be taken up at the Department of Music, University of Nottingham, where she will be working on a project entitled 'Alan Bush: Music and Politics in Modern Britain'.
The project, the first critical study of the composer, uses Bush's rich and controversial life as a focus for exploring key issues in mid-century British music: the ambivalent position of English communist musicians, attitudes to modernism and anti-modernism, and relations between English musicians and Eastern Bloc countries.
Jo arrived in Oxford as an undergraduate at Christ Church in 2001. After completing her masters and doctoral studies, also at Christ Church, funded by the AHRC, she held posts as Lecturer at Merton and University Colleges (2008-9) and Junior Research Fellow at Worcester (2009-present).
The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships aim to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers but with a proven record of research. It is anticipated that a Fellowship will lead to a more permanent academic position.