What a joy to celebrate the launch of the fourth edition of Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School with wonderful colleagues today - @gary-spruce.bsky.social @drannamariguddi.bsky.social @proffautley.bsky.social @nancyevans.bsky.social and many more 🩷

It's arrived! Complete with brand new cover design and brilliant contributions from Anthony Anderson, Carolyn Cooke, Victoria Kinsella, John Finney, Chris Philpott, @proffautley.bsky.social, @gary-spruce.bsky.social, @kirstydevaney.bsky.social, @drannamariguddi.bsky.social, and others 🙌

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Please take a look at our new 🗝️open access🗝️ article based on @sparcsheffield.bsky.social research at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, Peterborough Sings! and funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1177/0255...

Investigating Amateur Choirs in the United Kingdom as Sites of Musical Learning and Ambition - Stephanie E. Pitts, Elizabeth H. MacGregor, 2025

Singing in an amateur choir is widely recognised as a source of enjoyment, social connection, and wellbeing. Choir membership in the United Kingdom, however, is...

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Very enjoyable Thursday morning recording a podcast episode with Dr Viv John in the studio and Dr @ehmacgregor.bsky.social (+ Walnut the dog) in Oxford. Plenty of critique for the National Plans for Music Education of both England and Wales!

Gradually populating my new office in the lovely School of Music @universityofleeds.bsky.social 📚💻📝

What a privilege to present alongside esteemed colleagues Alexandra Kertz-Welzel and Huib Schippers today at #CDIME2025 @micireland.bsky.social.

The final farewell after two years at @somervillecollege.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social.

Settling into #Brighton ahead of #BERA2025 @beranews.bsky.social

Excited to have just sent off the page proofs for Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School (4th edition)! It's looking fantastic, complete with new chapters on #digitalmusic, #inclusion, and #composing, plus a fresh front cover design ❤️⭐🎵 www.routledge.com/Learning-to-...

New term, new job! My new institutional home for the next two years @universityofleeds.bsky.social #music #musiced

For me, reading the first edition of Debates in Music Teaching was one of the those "wow!" moments - so what a privilege to feature in the second edition alongside such stellar authors! ⭐✨⭐ @gary-spruce.bsky.social @proffautley.bsky.social @sueyoungmusic.bsky.social @drannamariguddi.bsky.social

I'm delighted to see this article published in Arts Education Policy Review (🔑OPEN ACCESS🔑) with my wonderful colleagues @thomasbreeze.bsky.social and Viv John. #MusicEd #CardiffMet @somervillecollege.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1063...

A National Plan for Music Education: A comparative “What’s the Problem Represented to Be?” analysis across England and Wales

In 2022 both England and Wales released policy documents entitled A National Plan for Music Education. While the English policy was a long-awaited update to a similar policy published in 2011, the ...

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Two articles published in one week! One on #singing with the wonderful @sparcsheffield.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social and one on #vulnerability from my recent research at @somervillecollege.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social. 🎵 doi.org/10.1386/ijcm... ✏️ doi.org/10.1177/1468...

Evaluating collaborative action ethnography as a means of co-constructing ‘pedagogies of vulnerability’ in the post-pandemic music classroom - Elizabeth H MacGregor, 2025

Following the lengthy period of isolation enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the imperative for qualitative researchers to re-engage in personal and participato...

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Timothy Coombes, ‪@marinuleccia.bsky.social‬, @ehmacgregor.bsky.social, and Javier Rivas will each give presentations at OSiMTA on Tuesday. Please do join us from 5pm for this session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play.

Faculty of Music, Oxford University@oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social · last yr.

This term the Oxford Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis has been curated by Dr Giles Masters and explores 'Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play'. Mark your diaries to join us on Tuesday 3 June!

Delighted to end #RiME2025 presenting alongside Chris Philpott on musical meaning and knowledge... and even to get a mention alongside this stellar list of scholars...

Very much looking forward to presenting two papers at #RiME2025 this Thursday and Friday! I'll be drawing on my postdoctoral research @somervillecollege.bsky.social and some recent work with the Group for Research in Music Education at Cardiff Metropolitan @thomasbreeze.bsky.social

Lovely to catch up with so many @sheffielduni.bsky.social friends at #sempre last week!

Jonathan (Jaytee) Tang@jayteetang.bsky.social · 2y ago

SEMPRE was a blast! 🎶 Huge thanks to the organisers for an inspiring conference. Grateful to receive the Aubrey Hickman Award & present my paper. Loved reconnecting with colleagues & meeting new peeps—so many great conversations! 🙌

The survivors at #sempre! Grateful to those who hung on until the very last session to hear my presentation on collaborative action ethnography, and to @eunice-tang.bsky.social for the photographs!

Grateful to present my PhD study at SEMPRE Spring Conference 2025 at RNCM! My talk on autism and inclusion in UK higher music education was warmly received. Thanks to my supervisors Prof Graham Welch and Dr Austin Griffiths and all brilliant scholars I connected with for the inspiring conversations!

Thanks Amanda @studylistening.bsky.social - great summary! Pleasure to be at #SEMPRE hearing so much good research - need a bit of time to digest it all now. Congrats to the brilliant organisers!

Amanda Krause@studylistening.bsky.social · 2y ago

. @sparcsheffield.bsky.social, Investigating UK amateur choirs as sites of musical learning + ambition -many members want to maintain (rather than develop) singing -musical goals need to be achievable and negotiated (directors need to know members' ambitions) #SEMPRE #MusicScience

Another fantastic Hickman Award presentation at #sempre from @drmkirby.bsky.social on co-collaborative research with people with learning disabilities 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Having a wonderful time at the #sempre conference today! Thanks to @karenburland.bsky.social for her keynote earlier and looking forward to presenting with @sparcsheffield.bsky.social tomorrow 🎵🎶

A wonderful time was had @somervillecollege.bsky.social launching my book with @sparcsheffield.bsky.social @proffautley.bsky.social @gary-spruce.bsky.social and many others. Thank you all for your support 🥰

I am over the moon to have finally received copies of my new book! And there's still time to sign up to the book launch this coming Friday 21 February if you haven't already: forms.office.com/e/R19Rrhknr4 #musiced #vulnerability @somervillecollege.bsky.social @sparcsheffield.bsky.social

My first journal submission from my current postdoctoral research on #musicalvulnerability #musiced @somervillecollege.bsky.social 🙌✍️🤞

I recorded a podcast! On vulnerability, risk, and a little foray into the long-term personal impact of researching music in higher education 🎵⚠️🎓✏️ themusiceducationpodcast.buzzsprout.com #MusicEd #AcademicChatter

The Music Education Podcast

Listen for authentic and challenging conversation on all things music ed. Brought to you by SoundStorm Music Education Agency, lead partner of the BCP music education hub . Hosted and produced by Chri...

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It was a joy to visit @ioe.bsky.social yesterday to present my current research on musical vulnerability to iMerc with @eunice-tang.bsky.social.

The next SEMPRE spring conference will be held at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK, on 9 and 10 April 2025. Abstracts for this conference just be submitted by 31st January 2025. www.sempre.org.uk/conferences/...