Since the start of the year, Composer Sam Salem, a current PhD student at University of Manchester has been teaching every Thursday at Bath Spa University. Although he travels many miles every week from Manchester to Bath Spa, he is still involved very much with NOVARS Research activities and serving as teaching assistant for the electroacoustic courses in Music at Manchester University.
Sam's teaching story adds up to the number of existing PhDs and graduates from NOVARS, engaged with education and research in other institutions in the last couple of years or so; e.g. Tom Scott, Mauricio Pauly and Rodrigo Constanzo at the RNCM, Diana Salazar at Kingston University London, Manuella Blackburn at Liverpool Hope University, Kaho Cheung at the Baptist University of Hong Kong and Richard Scott (visiting @ Lancaster University). Some master students have been accepted to international courses like Chris Swithinbank (IRCAM) or continued PhD Studies (Patrick Sanan in Pure Maths in California or Panos Amelides awarded to study PhD with Prof John Young at De Montfort University), got jobs in Schools (Heather Bamforth) or stablished themselves are freelance composers and performers (George Denis in London, Gavin Osborn in the North West of England, Irma Catalina with 'Miseria y Hambre' or Mark Pilkington, an active performer in the region and teacher at Futureworks, school of media) or people who already had University jobs in composition like Nick Casswell (at UCLAN) came to join our PhD community of composers and sound reearchers.
