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Environmental sustainability practices in Music Hubs & Services

In response to the climate crisis and a growing need for sustainable practices in music education, Music Mark commissioned a research project…

Research Shorts: Musical Vulnerability in Music Education

Today I’m talking with Elizabeth MacGregor about her recent book, Musical vulnerability: Receptivity, susceptibility, and care in the music classroom (Routledge, 2025)….

25th Jun 2025

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…

20th Jun 2025

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…

21st May 2025

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…

13th May 2025

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…

22nd Apr 2025

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…

17th Apr 2025

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’…

25th Mar 2025

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,…

6th Mar 2025

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…

28th Feb 2025

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…

20th Feb 2025

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…

14th Feb 2025

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