Introducing SIMM:
SIMM (Social Impact of Making Music) is a Belgian non-profit research platform, which promotes investigation of the social impact of music-making.
With the support of the Baillet-Latour Fund, SIMM arranges symposia, conferences, publications and seminars, to bring together artists, social workers, educationalists, psychologists, political scientists and sociologists with an interest in research on the role which music-making plays in social work.
Alongside arranging meetings and sustaining the networks that these help establish, SIMM’s main ambition for 2018-2020 is the pursuit of the necessary groundwork for the creation of one or more permanent international research centres going forwards.
And, in the autumn of 2018, the organisation will reach an important milestone, as students begin to attend a doctoral programme established in cooperation with SIMM at the Guildhall School in London. Click here to find out more about the programme and the funded studentship options available for those looking to attend (application deadline 28.03.18).
The 3rd SIMM-posium, 19-20.05.18:
However, long before the new academic year in London begins, the 3rd SIMM-posium will take place in Porto, Portugal on the 19th and the 20th May.
This symposium aims to bring together researchers, research-orientated practitioners and policymakers with an interest in social welfare and the development and consolidation of a network of professionals working to intensify a rigorous and evidence-based understanding of how active, participatory music-making can be used to bring social benefits to groups of individuals in diverse contexts and situations.
Those interested in attending will need to be quick, though, as the deadline for applications is Wednesday the 31st January*!
So, if you're interested in attending and wish to find out more, don't hesitate, click here to go straight to SIMM's description of the symposium and the sort of presentations that are sought.
(*please note that the deadline was only extended from the 15th January on 13.01.18 and may still be listed differently elsewhere)
Find out more about and/or get involved in SIMM's activites:
If you wish to be regularly informed of and/or get involved in SIMM’s activities, then you can write to info@simm-platform.eu, where they will be happy to explain how you can get involved.
To visit SIMM’s own website and/or follow the organisation on social media, click on the links below:
facebook.com/simm.research
twitter.com/simmposium
www.simm-platform.eu