Research
Research Shorts: Advancing Excellence in Teaching
This week I’m talking to Dr Lilian Simones about her work in developing a new model called Echoes for Excellence, an approach…
Research Shorts: Do you ‘tell’ or ‘talk with’ your students?
This week, I’m chatting with James Poole, who is a piano and woodwind teacher in the middle of his doctoral research on…
Research Shorts: The Smile Project (Strategies for Music in Learning-difficulties Education)
This week I’ve been talking to Dr Caroline Waddington-Jones about her work with the Smile Project. This vital work aims to improve…
Research Shorts: East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music
This week, I spoke with Dr Maiko Kawabata about her vital new collection, co-edited with Ken Ueno, East Asian Voices of Resistance…
Research Roundup: A spring roundup!
Since we are officially in conference season for academics, and we’re in a quiet spot for Research Shorts, I’ve decided to pull…
Research Shorts: Bringing Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s music out of the archive
Last week, the combined ensembles of Croydon Youth Orchestra and Trinity Music Academy played the UK premiere of Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s ‘Comet Prelude’…
Research Shorts: Sustainable Teaching Practices in a Music Outreach Project in Southwark
Today we’re meeting Javier Rivas and Esther Cavett, to hear about their collaboration and research into collaborative learning practices. In this project,…
Research Shorts: Music Performance from the Inside Out
This week I’ve been talking to Monia Brizzi about her work with Prof Mine Doğantan-Dack and Prof John Crawford about their work…
Research Shorts: Collaborative Composition and Choral Repertoire for Post-Pandemic Well-Being
This week I have been chatting with Canadian academic, Dr Fiona Evison, about her practice-led research. Fiona describes herself as ‘a transplanted…
Research Shorts: Generative AI in school music education
This week, I’ve been talking to Dr Lee Cheng, Associate Prof at Anglia Ruskin University, about his recent research on the role…
Research Shorts: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Musical Theatre Production
This week I’ve been talking about musical theatre teaching with U.S. academic, Dr Apinporn Chaiwanichsiri, and her recent work on culturally responsive…
Research Shorts: Creativity as a transferable concept
This week I’m featuring some brand new research, a recent article by Kevin Gormley at Dublin City University, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha…
