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WRoCAH Open Competition Studentship recipient: James Anderson

Student success - WRoCAH Open Competition Studentship Winner of a WRoCH studentship

James talks about his experience of living and studying at Sheffield, as well as his recent success in being awarded the AHRC White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH) Open Competition Studentship. James has previously also been a recipient of a scholarship provided by the German History Society

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My Experience: MA Musicology

Xinyi Liang Department of Music

Xinyi studied Musicology in the Department of Music, focusing her research on aesthetics in the first movement of Beethoven's C-minor piano Concerto.

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