Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland

Dr Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is Associate Head of BMus with specialisms in Historical Musicology at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is the Principal Investigator for the Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded project, Scotland’s Singing for Health Network. Formerly, she was the Lead Research Associate for the AHRC-funded project ‘The Edited Collection of Allan Ramsay’ at the University of Glasgow. She was also 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 (Routledge, 2022), Allan Ramsay’s The Tea Table Miscellany (EUP, 2023) co-edited with Professor Murray Pittock, Reason in the Age of Credulity: International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies co-edited by Giulia Iannuzzi, Claudia Márquez and Sylvie Moret Petrini (Honoré Champion, 2024), and Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange 1550–1850 co-edited with Louise Duckling (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).

She is on the board of the British Society of Eighteenth-century Studies and she is the honorary secretary for the Society for Theatre Research. She established the successful ECR mentoring scheme with the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837.

Brianna has spoken at the sold out TEDxGlasgow event, which is a locally organized event licensed by the famous TED organisation. She has sung in master classes and private lessons with early music specialists including Emma Kirkby, Nicholas Clapton and Robert Toft and regularly performs lecture-recitals at conferences and events.