Desiring Progress

I am very pleased to be able to write about what I believe will be an immensely important and stimulating debate, which I have organised, and will take place on Wednesday 20 March 2023, at 18:30 ...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/debate-on-the-sokal-and-grievance-studies-academic-hoaxes-20-march-2024-1830-at-city-university-of-london/

As a follow-up to my previous post in this series, I now wanted to give details of the spread of undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses available in the UK Music Higher Education sector. T...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2023/06/03/music-in-uk-higher-education-2-undergraduate-courses/

Today the government has announced that Arif Ahmed, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge will be the first director for freedom of speech and academic freedom at the Office for Students, a positi...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/a-new-director-for-academic-freedom-and-freedom-of-speech-some-relevant-topical-issues/

Today at 17:15 GMT, I am giving a lecture on ‘Academic Music in the United Kingdom and the Dalliance with Practice’ at the Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music, Oxford University. This can als...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/oxford-lecture-on-academic-music-in-the-united-kingdon-and-the-dalliance-with-practice-25-april-2023-handout-for-download/

Over the course of the last 5-6 years, I have been progressively researching many aspects of music in higher education (HE) in the UK, including its history and development, the rise and fall of ...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/music-in-uk-higher-education-1-departments-and-faculties/

I am often interested in the question of to what extent musical careers, in all types of music, can be said to be founded upon merit. There are three types of positions with which I am familiar, ...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/some-musings-on-music-meritocracy-and-more/

This blog post was planned earlier this year in response to a very important question placed on social media, by the account known as Experimental Philosophy (@xphilosopher ), which was as follow...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/how-to-create-an-inclusive-classroom-for-students-of-all-political-persuasions/

Last week I attended the debate ‘How can universities promote academic freedom? Insights from the front line of the gender wars’, at University College London’s Institute of Education. This...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/academic-freedom-definitions-and-risks/

Over a long period, I have repeatedly considered the question of ‘practice’ in an academic context, its meanings and implications, following on from earlier writings on the relationship betwe...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2022/08/03/critical-engagement-with-practice-is-not-the-same-as-subservience-or-being-a-practitioner/

In advance of writing a new blog post on academic engagement with practice, I thought it might be useful to give links to my various writings on practice-research and other important links in one...

https://ianpace.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/musicological-observations-11-articles-and-links-relating-to-practice-research/