Laura Hamer
@drlaurahamer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University; Feminist Musicologist; Lover of house plants and the outdoors #WomenInMusic
This week I had the huge honour to present Anna Lapwood with an Honorary Doctorate from The Open University at our Manchester Graduation Ceremony #OUFamily #WomenInMusic #PlayLikeAGirl
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This week I had the huge honour to present Anna Lapwood with an Honorary Doctorate from The Open University at our Manchester Graduation Ceremony #OUFamily #WomenInMusic #PlayLikeAGirl
It's been wonderful to spend the last few days working in the Lili Boulanger Archive at the BnF 🎶
June 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's been wonderful to spend the last few days working in the Lili Boulanger Archive at the BnF 🎶
Fabulous to be back here to do some #WomenInMusic research today 😊
May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fabulous to be back here to do some #WomenInMusic research today 😊
Exciting to receive my author copies of my Cambridge #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool' co-written with Michael Brocken! Mary Hamer was a dance band leader, pianist, and exhibition dancer (but not a relative) 🎶
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Exciting to receive my author copies of my Cambridge #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool' co-written with Michael Brocken! Mary Hamer was a dance band leader, pianist, and exhibition dancer (but not a relative) 🎶
It was fantastic to get to interview my #WomenInMusic colleagues @roisinmaher.bsky.social and Tim Parker-Langston about their important work promoting the performance of women's music this week for inclusion in my forthcoming OpenLearn Course 'Women Transforming Classical Music' (Autumn 2025)
March 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It was fantastic to get to interview my #WomenInMusic colleagues @roisinmaher.bsky.social and Tim Parker-Langston about their important work promoting the performance of women's music this week for inclusion in my forthcoming OpenLearn Course 'Women Transforming Classical Music' (Autumn 2025)
Really pleased that my CUP #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool', co-written with Michael Brocken, has just been published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Open Access until 31 March!
March 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Really pleased that my CUP #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool', co-written with Michael Brocken, has just been published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Open Access until 31 March!
Really lovely to spend time on our main Open University campus at Walton Hall for our Arts & Humanities Teaching and Learning Conference #OUFamily
March 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Really lovely to spend time on our main Open University campus at Walton Hall for our Arts & Humanities Teaching and Learning Conference #OUFamily
Really looking forward to spending St David's Day with Open University students and colleagues co-leading our Level 1 Arts & Humanities Day School in Cardiff #OUFamily
March 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Really looking forward to spending St David's Day with Open University students and colleagues co-leading our Level 1 Arts & Humanities Day School in Cardiff #OUFamily
Fabulous to be spending the day with Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences colleagues at our OU Wales AL Community Event in Cardiff #OUfamily
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Fabulous to be spending the day with Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences colleagues at our OU Wales AL Community Event in Cardiff #OUfamily
Wonderful evening celebrating the online launch of The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond (shared with permission) #WomenInMusic
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Wonderful evening celebrating the online launch of The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond (shared with permission) #WomenInMusic
Wonderful to see this on the Routledge stand at the RMA 150 Conference #WomenInMusic @royalmusical.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Wonderful to see this on the Routledge stand at the RMA 150 Conference #WomenInMusic @royalmusical.bsky.social
Looking forward to the RMA 150 Conference in London tomorrow @royalmusical.bsky.social and to presenting my paper on Marguerite Long!
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Looking forward to the RMA 150 Conference in London tomorrow @royalmusical.bsky.social and to presenting my paper on Marguerite Long!
Really pleased to see The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond, co-edited by myself and Prof Helen Julia Minors, published. Huge thanks to all our wonderful authors #WomenInMusic
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Really pleased to see The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond, co-edited by myself and Prof Helen Julia Minors, published. Huge thanks to all our wonderful authors #WomenInMusic
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...