SUP welcomes new Editorial Board member

We are delighted to announce that Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland of the Royal Conservatoire for Scotland will join the SUP Editorial Board as the constituency representative for small specialist institutions.

Brianna is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology and is the Lead Research Associate for the AHRC-funded project 'The Edited Collection of Allan Ramsay' at the University of Glasgow. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Chawton House (2017) and the University of Sydney (2017 & 2019) with her most recent visit culminating in several practice-based, collaborative performances between Scotland’s Concerto Caledonia and Melbourne’s Evergreen Ensemble. 

Her research has fed into the historically led album Curious Caledonians (2020). Recent publications include Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing Scandalous Lessons (2022) and Allan Ramsay’s The Tea Table Miscellany co-edited with Professor Murray Pittock published with Edinburgh University Press in 2023.

Brianna said, ‘I was keen to apply to be on the board of the Scottish Universities Press as I am passionate about open access publishing and eager to contribute my voice to a newly emerging press. Researchers at smaller specialist institutions such as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow School of Art and SRUC are producing exciting research that do not always fit into traditional modes of publication and research funding, and so are not always easily supported to be published open access.

I am eager to identify workable, efficient solutions through Scottish Universities Press that ensure opportunities for open access are available for all researchers to publish high-quality work.’

We look forward to working with Brianna! Please get in touch if you have any questions.