The Centre has many members from across the university including:
Ruth Mazur, whose PhD project looks at rap music in secondary education and its effects on student wellbeing, identity and social bonding
Shiran Chen, whose PhD project challenges dominant pedagogical norms with alternative notational practices (in particular, gongche notation) for decolonisation.
Huilin Qi, whose PhD project looks at teacher preparation in China and the UK, asking which is best positioned to allow new teachers to flourish in their work.
Caroline Owen, whose PhD project explores how children articulate lived musical experiences, meanings they construct from these, and how this process evolves developmentally .
James Poole, whose PhD research investigates practical strategies for facilitating dialogic teaching within one-to-one instrumental lessons to promote pupil wellbeing and progress
Rosemary Lynch, whose PhD project explores dominant narratives around the oboe and how these impact accessibility to the oboe as an instrumental choice
Yaxin Zhang, whose PhD project explores adolescents’ experiences of performance confidence/anxiety, with a particular focus on instrumental teacher support in the Chinese context
Miaozi Yu, whose doctoral research investigates one-to-one piano performance teaching, examining how Chinese students’ learning expectations interact with pedagogical approaches in the UK
Alexis Cairns
Tiannan Ye, whose PhD project examines the notion of "shared musical understanding" from a practice-based perspective, exploring modes of communication and musical dynamics across string quartet members and their audiences.
Wenli Pan, whose PhD research explores the reception of female characters in Mozart’s operas in China, with a particular focus on how pedagogical design can better support students’ engagement, confidence, and long-term development