Dr. Veerle Spronck’s PhD dissertation nominated for the Boekman Dissertation Prize
Dr. Veerle Spronck’s PhD dissertation, Listen Closely: Innovating audience participation in symphonic music, has been nominated for the 6th edition of the Boekman Dissertation Prize (Boekman Dissertatieprijs). The Boekman Dissertation Prize is awarded every three years for dissertations that focus on the arts and culture policy as well as the social context of arts and culture. The prize aims to bring this research to a wider public and to stimulate new research. The winner will receive €10.000 for research-related activities as well as being included in the magazine of the organization.
Veerle Spronck’s thesis is a result of ethnographic research where she closely examined how four Dutch symphony orchestras are innovating participation in their everyday practices. Spronck’s research was part of the 2017-2021 NWO/SIA funded project ‘Artful Participation’ which was a collaboration between Maastricht University (FASoS), the Research Centre ‘What Art Knows’ at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences and Philzuid. Prof. dr. Peter Peters, chair of MCICM, and dr. Ruth Benschop, lector at Zuyd University, supervised Spronck’s research.
Veerle Spronck (1993) is an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and podcaster who works on the societal value of the arts, and is particularly interested in the intersections of art, science and technology. She works as associate lector (senior researcher) Valuable Entrepreneurship in and through the Arts at the University of the Arts Utrecht, and is one of the makers of the independent podcast Kunstmatig about art and technology.
‘Listen Closely: Innovating Audience Participation in Symphonic Music’ is available for download.
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