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Dr Motje Wolf

Researcher

Dr Motje Wolf is an international researcher in Music Education and holds the position of VC 2020 lecturer in Education at De Montfort University. Dr Wolf holds an MA in Musicology and Drama from the University of Leipzig (Germany), studied Music Psychology in Graz (Austria, Erasmus) and completed a PhD in Music Education/Musicology at De Montfort University Leicester (UK) in 2013. She co-founded the special focus group ‘Singing in Music Education’ (SiME) of the European Association of Music in Schools (EAS) and sits on the steering committee. Within SiME Dr Wolf is involved in international research projects and helps to develop singing research throughout Europe. Her research focuses on knowledge exchange between academia and the teaching profession. She holds the position of editor-in-chief for the Music MESHguide project, which provides research summaries for teachers in schools. Her project ‘Enhancing Music Access’ aids this process by providing regular CPD for teachers to engage in more inclusive methods of teaching through sound-based music and singing. Being a professional singer herself, Dr Wolf has developed a strong interest in different teaching models of singing. In her current research project Models of Vocal Education (MOVE) she investigates the models that form the basics of singing teaching. Furthermore, she is interested in enhancing the pedagogical practice for working with young voices. 
Her teaching is directly influenced from her research. In the Education Studies Division, Dr Wolf is module leader for the second year BA module ‘Music in the Life of the Primary School’ and ‘The philosophy of Education’. She further contributes to the modules ‘Researching Education’  and lectures on ‘Perspectives in Education’. Dr Wolf supervises PhD students as well as MA and BA dissertations and welcomes inquiries from potential PhD candidates.

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Prof. Sarah Younie

Researcher

Sarah Younie is MA Programme Leader and Principal Lecturer in Education Studies. She teaches on the MA and BA programmes and supervises research students in educational technology, innovation, pedagogy, professional development and management of change.
Dr Sarah Younie graduated with a first class degree from the University of Warwick, and then studied for a PGCE in Humanities and English at University of Leicester; then, whilst working as qualified teacher in schools she completed a Certificate of Further Professional Study in Education at the University of Cambridge. Sarah was awarded an ESRC scholarship to study for her Masters in Sociology of Contemporary Culture at the University of York, and has since completed a PhD in Education and Technology. She taught in a number of secondary schools and since then she has taught on BA, PGCE and MA courses where her teaching and research focuses on change in education, in particular technology and the opportunities it affords for innovation in practice. She has been an external examiner for MA and doctoral programmes.
During her role as U.K Chair of ITTE (Information Technology in Teacher Education), Sarah has liaised with government agencies and has conducted national research for government, and submitted evidence for the ‘Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into Education’ in 2009.
Sarah has implemented international research projects. She was the co-investigator for the EU funded ‘Learning School’ project, part of European Schoolnet Multimedia project, supported by 23 Ministries of Education; the ‘Web@Classroom’ project, awarded ‘ICT Best Practice in European Education’ in recognition of innovation. Other international projects have included the EU funded ‘European Knowledge Center' project, developing the teacher-researcher interface. Previous national research includes the ‘Use of Learning Platforms in HEIs and Schools’; BBC News School Report for ITE; SOURCE project (Software Use, Reuse and Customisation in Education) TLTP funded with The Open University. Sarah has delivered research papers at international conferences and published journal articles, book chapters and books on technology and education.

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Dr David Holland

Visiting Lecturer

David Holland is a published early career researcher and internationally performed composer with a particular interest in music technology and education. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at De Montfort University (DMU) (Leicester, UK) on the Creative Economy Engagement Programme funded by the Midlands4Cities partnership. He also works as a part-time lecturer at DMU and a researcher on the EU Interfaces project concerned with bringing new music to new audiences. Additionally, he has worked as a visiting lecturer on the Enhancing Music Access project, which aims to work with teachers to investigate current barriers to teaching sound-based music in schools. In 2017 he was awarded a PhD in the field of Music, Technology and Innovation from DMU, which was sponsored by the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. His research has focused on widening access to new forms of music and the powerful role that creativity can play in this. He received the Rolf Gehlhaar Award for Electronic Music Composition from Coventry University in 2010 and was a finalist in the 2014 Bangor Dylan Thomas Prize for Electroacoustic Composition. His work has recently been broadcast on Czech (Vitava - Radiocustica) and Dutch (Concertzender) radio.

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Duncan Chapman

Visiting Lecturer

Duncan Chapman is a composer and sound artist who regularly works with leading music organisations throughout the world. Much of his work results in sound installations, recordings and live performances. Recent projects include co-directing large-scale performance projects for Casa da Música (Porto) and at the 2018 Sonophilia festival in Lincoln.
Duncan’s other numerous projects include Dark Januaries, an annual personal composition project with Isabel Jones ; Rising Breath with Stewart Collinson and Mike McInerney Performances with Supriya Nagarajan (Manasamitra) for the lullabies project in the UK and at the Ultima Festival (Oslo); the Kamppi "Chapel of Silence" (Helsinki) and orchestration of Indian lullabies (Iceland Symphony Orchestra). The audio-visual piece Mode 5 Down the Mountain was selected for the 2016 Drone Cinema Festival and released on a Silent Records compilation. Duncan is also currently involved in touring White Cane (Salamanda Tandem).
Duncan is a contributor to courses at De Montfort & York Universities and has been involved with the Enhancing Music Access project as a workshop leader and contributor to sessions with teachers and researchers.
Current projects include: a performance project for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival further work with the Lullabies project in the UK and Portugal, ongoing work (in the UK and Athens) with De Montfort University on the pan-Eu Interfaces project and mentoring two composers (for Sound and Music) writing pieces for the Paraorchestra.

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Shane Dellaca

Visiting Lecturer

Shane Dellaca is a secondary and primary music specialist with twenty-five years of experience, working in ten different school settings, across four different countries. He is always searching for new and exciting ways to engage and develop the musical experiences of his pupils in the classroom. He has a particular interest in the design and quality of his students' musical listening development. He came across the EMA project when he got an invitation in his email inbox. He came to the introductory session and have never looked back.


Working with the expert, talented and creative guidance of the team, He has learned new techniques which have facilitated greater focus and more successful listening during his lessons. He also noticed that this has also fed directly into creative composition work too. He continues to work with the EMA team, professionally developing, extending and sharing his experience of music teaching. Shane Dellaca is a great advocate of EMA because it is a platform based on shared experiences and academic endeavour, in the fantastic field of music education!

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