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Meaningful music making for life
save to DISC is a postgraduate course pathway designed for music teachers, educators, recreational music coaches; curriculum designers, composers writing education resources and touring music artists. It links to a program of postgraduate research and production cohorts and promotes the production of philosophy, curriculum development and tertiary research training.
You can structure a specialised course to suit your own interest. QUT Creative Industries offers coursework Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Music (Project), Doctor of Creative Industries and research based Master of Arts or PhD courses.
save to DISC focuses on music learning and teaching in new and innovative ways which engage people of all ages in creative music production. It will document innovative projects and research that serves the purpose of amassing evidence and enables resource production that promotes social inclusion, meaning and engagement in music/sound experiences for all.
Save to DISC functions
- development of a series of funded research projects.
- develop digitised research methodologies and infrastructure for storing, appraising and publishing peer refereed research in multimedia form and as a resource production clearinghouse.
- postgraduate research concentration.
- postgraduate music education training.
Faculty, community and international links
save to DISC has a research agenda that has great potential for collaboration across faculties and nations to contribute to an important aspect of health and well-being. save to DISC links directly to the music industry through the New Creatives and Music Play for Life programs and is linked through collaborative research projects to the Centre for Health Research to examine the links between music in communities and schools, health and well being, social inclusion and resiliency.
Industry partners and affiliates
- Brisbane City Council: Creative Communities
- New Creatives
- Oxygen42
- Brisbane Powerhouse
- Q-Music
- Music Play for Life
- The Australian Music Association
- The Australian Society for Music Education
- The Australian Association for Research in Music Education
- International Society for Music Education
- Lifeline
Overseas Academic partnerships
- University of Madrid*
- Lund University-Malmo Academy*
- Rotterdam Conservatorium*
- University of Cyprus*
- Cambridge University*
- University of Southampton
- Manchester Municipal University
- Canterbury Christchurch University
- Hong Kong Institute of Education
*Several of these universities are linked via a joint EU Socrates grant application where QUT & the Hong Kong Institute are listed as affiliates.
Summary of activity and proposed activity for 2005-2007
ARC linkage application submission for 2006 funding
Through an industry partnership with Brisbane City Council Creative Communities, Music Creatives and save to DISC: Promoting Social Inclusion through Creative Music Making in Schools and Communities proposes to build models of community music making which support and enable social inclusion for young people through creative music making.
QUT Creative Industries Faculty and Manchester Municipal University Collaboration
This collaboration will develop an open source research tool called IDEA (International Database for Education and the Arts). This database will enable multimedia research and publication to occur and connect with similar research across the world.
Links with health research locally
save to DISC is linked through combined research projects and co-supervision arrangements to the Centre for Health Research: Resiliency and Health Promoting Schools projects which will examine the role of cultural health in communities and investigate the causal link between music making, health and well being.
Linking Recreational Music making and Health globally
This project proposes a rich media database and research collections and analysis program in three languages - English, Spanish and Chinese. Each database will link with a research infrastructure and connect to an advocacy/promotion process linked to retail outlets. This research will also design curriculum models for adult music making in communities.
Proposed publication projects
- music meaning and transformation
- innovations in music education
- music and sound education
- songs of resiliency
- culturally inclusive music making.
Student projects
- Amp’d Up: Master of Music student creates a new music program at a suburban high school that draws upon the multicultural musical values of the community.
- Late Starters: Master of Music student created a work book for baby-boomer guitarists that combines psychological self help manual and guitar playing that focuses on the music of the students youth from the 1950’s-1970’s.
- A Master of Music songwriter composed, produced and recorded a worship CD for his own communities needs. A PhD student examines the sustainability of a cross cultural music program in a Brisbane primary school.
How to apply
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Find out more
Dr Steve Dillon
Email sc.dillon@qut.edu.au
Phone + 61 7 3138 3691
