Music and Social Intervention Network

Excellence and inclusion in music interventions

See the responses to our events:

The responses: What do excellence and inclusion really mean?

The responses: whose voice, whose music, whose agenda?

The discussion: international perspectives on excellence, inclusion, and intervention

The debate - MUS0C Knowledge Exchange Forum

To view all contributions, click Modules on the left hand side of this page.

Through exploring a series of research questions, the network's objective is to foster debate, inspire dialogue and create new discourses surrounding excellence and inclusion within music interventions.

Our aims are:

Identifying different constructions of excellence and inclusion from the perspective of different fields of study that intersect community music;
Subjecting these constructions to critique in order to question and challenge the way they are interpreted through research, and how they affect practice;
Generating a network of researchers and practitioners from across different fields of study, practice, and locations, opening up the debate to the wider international community and move knowledge and understanding forward.

Three public events provide an opportunity for those working in the field to meet and discuss issues surrounding excellence and inclusion. Each event will provide a starting point for discussion of each of the aims in turn.

In order to stimulate the debate, researchers and practitioners from a number of different fields have been invited to respond to the live events. You are then invited to respond to these via this online platform. Short and more detailed responses are invited via each event section. Short responses to the debate questions are invited via a link that will automatically add your response to the event responses page and can be viewed immediately. Detailed responses are invited via an online survey that gives you space to add text, link websites, video, audio and pictures. Your response will be published on the event responses page and we will use social media to announce when your detailed response has been published.

To access the podcasts/videos/responses from the events visit the event section:

Event 1: What do excellence and inclusion really mean?
Event 2: Whose music, whose voice, whose agenda?
Event 3: The debate - MUS0C Knowledge Exchange Forum
Extra event: The discussion: international perspectives on excellence, inclusion, and intervention

The discussion is being steered by a steering group of practitioners and academics in different intersecting fields:

Dr Kirstin Anderson
Professor Gary Andsell
Pauline Black
Dr Dave Camlin
Dr Laura Caulfield
Ruth Currie
Brit Ågot Brøske Danielsen
Dr Ally Daubney
Dr Jennie Henley
Professor Lee Higgins
Professor Burkhard Hill
Sara Lee
Dr Helen Loth
Dr Rosie Perkins
Dr Lee Willingham

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The network is supported by an AHRC Research Network Grant and being co-ordinated in partnership by the Royal College of Music and the International Centre for Community Music at York St John University.