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Interview with the interns

Rhiannon Lewis and Dan Varley (both year 2) are Turner Sims Interns for 2015, with responsibility for the Southampton Showcase scheme for advanced performers.  Here they tell us about their first semester in the job: What interested you in applying for the intern post? Rhiannon: Arts management is something that has always interested me but I felt my knowledge on the profession was limited. Continue reading →

Harpsichords at Cheltenham

This week postgraduate researcher and harpsichordist Christopher Lewis starred as player and presenter at the Cheltenham Music Festival –  for ‘A History of the Modern Harpsichord: An Afternoon at the Salle Cortot’.  Here he tells us more about the purpose of the event : The university’s Feldberg harpsichord on holiday in Cheltenham Early on Monday, a small group of us from the University of Southampton departed for the prestigious Cheltenham Music Festival. Continue reading →

New research repository: LANGSNAP

A new research repository is now available on the research materials page. The 2011-2013 LANGSNAP project tracked the language learning and social integration of 57 students during their Year Abroad in France, Spain and Mexico. With support from Adam Field of iSolutions, and using ePrints technology, we have now created a repository which makes selected LANGSNAP data available to researchers worldwide. The repository can be viewed at: http://langsnap.soton.ac.uk . Continue reading →

Research grant success for Julia Hüttner

Congratulations to Julia Hüttner who has been successful in obtaining funding for her project “Fallstudien zur Implementierung von CLIL in den Regelunterricht an HTLs” (Case studies on the implementation of CLIL in mainstream education at colleges of technology) which will run for the next 12 months. Julia is co-investigator on the project, which is led by Professor Ute Smit (University of Vienna) and which has been granted €19,457 by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Women. Continue reading →