The SMI awards annually a number of small grants to its members of up to €400 in support of musicological research to assist postgraduate research students, non-affiliated scholars, or academics without recourse to institutional funds. Financial assistance (max €200-) for presentations at conferences outside Ireland may also be considered. To qualify for consideration applicants must be in good standing with the Society and have been a member for a minimum of six months at the point of application. Grants are payable on production of receipts as detailed below.

Applications should made electronically and include:

a short CV

a brief description of the proposed research and its intended purpose

a proposed budget

(if applicable) an account of awards received or applied for in connection with the project

a copy of a short letter of support from a supervisor or appropriate academic

Applications are considered on an on-going basis and details of awards publicised on the SMI website.

Recipients are expected to:

acknowledge, when publishing, the assistance of the SMI

submit a short report on the work undertaken to the SMI Grants Committee Chair within 12 months of the allocation of the award

Recipients are encouraged to present their findings at an SMI Conference.

Payment process: To comply with Irish Revenue charitable status requirements recipients must submit all relevant receipts to the Hon. Treasurer  before the payment of the full grant can be made.

Applications (and any queries regarding SMI grants) should be made by email to:

Dr. Denise Neary

Chair, SMI Grants Committee

Royal Irish Academy of Music

36-38 Westland Row

Dublin 2

Ireland
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Past Recipients

• Áine Mangaoang (University of Liverpool) Beyond MTV: Popular Music, YouTube, and the construction of identity in postcolonial Philippines
• Catherine Ferris (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) The Dublin Music Trade
• John McGrath (University of Liverpool) The Theoretical Relationship between Words and Music
• Barbara Strahan (NUI Maynooth): Schubert's Fantasia Genre
• Majella Boland (UCD): The Reception of the Piano Concerti of John Field
• Adrienne Brown (UCD): Self, the Now, and the Art Object in Music and Dance.
• Helen Tipper (MIC,UL): Alphabet Class Sets in the Music of Anton Webern.
• Fiona Smyth (UCD): Music in Light of Space: Establishing Context for early 20th-Century Writings on Musicology and Acoustics.
• Barbara Dignam (NUI Maynooth): Electroacoustic Music in Ireland: Exploring Roger Doyle's Babel
• Daniela Kulezic-Wilson (Independent Scholar): Musical Aspects of Peter Strickland's Film Katalin Varga.
• Johanne Heraty (UCD): Ezra Sims, Im Mirabell & Microtonality.
• Jessica Cawley (UCC): The Learning Process and Musical Enculturation of Irish Traditional Musicians.
• Ann Marie Hanlon (Newcastle University): Eric Satie and the New Canon: Criticism, Reception, Analysis (1911-1925).
• Estelle Murphy: The Changing Role of Music at Court in the Late-Stuart Period.
• Serena Standley: Fashioning a Count: Mario Bevilacqua as Patron and the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona.
• Una Hunt (Dublin): Thomas Moore and his Irish Melodies.
• Helen Lyons (UCD): Contemporary Irish Harping on the Irish Harp and 'Cruit'.
• Aisling Kenny (NUI Maynooth): The Lieder of Josephine Lang (1815-1880).
• Angela Buckley (WIT): A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of Philip Carolan (c.1839-1910).
• Angela Moran (UCD): Filmic Representations of Carmen.
• Fabian Huss (Bristol): The Chamber Music of Frank Bridge.
• Aoife Granville (UCC): Shaping Community Identity through Festivalisation: An Exploration of the Importance and Influence of the Wren Tradition in Corca Dhuibhne, Co. Kerry.
• Alison Dunlop (QUB): The Music Manuscripts of Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770).
• Ann-Marie Hanlon (Newcastle University): Satie and The New Canon: Criticism, Reception, Analysis (1911-1925).