Testimonials

Professor Lucy Green


The Women in Contemporary Music program is an inspiring example of how to put into action the ideas and principles behind encouraging women to become creative artists. The program is a great way of raising the confidence and motivation of women in music, and must have a lasting impact on all those who come into contact with it. Lucy Green is Professor of Music Education at the London University Institute of Education. She studied music and education at Homerton College Cambridge before completing a Masters in Music then a Doctorate in Music Education at Sussex University. She worked as a piano teacher during her post-graduate studies, then as a school music teacher and Head of Music in different parts of England for six years. She came to the Institute of Education in 1990, where she has been involved in teaching and development of initial teacher education courses, masters and doctoral degrees. Her research interests are in the sociology of music education, specialising in issues of meaning, ideology, gender, popular music and informal learning. She is the author of Music on Deaf Ears: Musical Meaning, Ideology and Education (1988/2008), Music, Gender, Education (1997), How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead For Music Education (2001), and Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy (2008) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on music education and the sociology of music. Lucy developed the teaching strategies and lead the research in the Informal Learning Pathfinder of the UK project, Musical Futures. She has given keynote lectures and seminars at conferences and universities in four continents, and sits on the editorial or advisory boards of a number of journals, including Music Education Research; Popular Music; Radical Musicology; Research Studies in Music Education; Gender Research in Music Education and others. Her current research involves a practice-based research-and-development project in which the informal learning practices of popular musicians are being adopted and adapted for instrumental music lessons.

Women in Contemporary Music
	Katie Noonan Visiting Artist I had a great time coming to SCU and connecting with the fantastic and friendly students there.
	Professor Philip Hayward The HEESP initiative was the first significant gender equity program in Australian popular music education and is a model for other programs.
	Ella Mingaye It shows us that we need to be motivated everyday towards achieving our goals. They are very essential to our learning and development as developing musicians. They help us to understand what it takes to become a successful, professional, and individual artist.
	Nadine Hubbs Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Music and Director of Undergraduate Women's Studies at the University of Michigan (USA)
	Martha Baartz Visiting Artist Role models help you to feel that you belong in the industry ... The HEESP program is a very strength building and necessary program for both student and artist.
	Sandy Evans Visiting Artists Leigh is to be congratulated on the excellent program she has run at the university. I am proud to have been part of this program and hope that it continues for many years to come.
	Charlie Chan Composer For me to be invited into a formal learning arena was somewhat mystifying.
	Felicity Urquhart It was such a joy to be among like minded people who's focus is music and song.
	Jacqueline Warwick Associate Professor of Music & Coordinator, Gender and Women's StudiesDalhousie University Halifax, Canada.