Professor Graham Welch holds the UCL Institute of Education Established Chair of Music Education (since 2001). He is elected Chair of the internationally based Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), a past President of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) (from 2008 to 2014), and past Co-Chair of the ISME Research Commission of ISME. He holds Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Queensland (Australia) and within the UK at UEL, Liverpool and (recently) Canterbury Christ Church University, Roehampton and the Royal College of Music. He is also member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Review College for music. Internationally, he has acted as a specialist external consultant in the following areas: (i) aspects of children’s singing and vocal development for UK and Italian Government agencies, as well as previously for the USA National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) in Denver and the Swedish Voice Research Centre in Stockholm; (ii) education and teacher development for the British Council in the Ukraine and Ministry for Education and Youth in the United Arab Emirates; and (iii) the development of the nation-wide research cultures in music for the National Research Foundation of South Africa and British Council in Argentina. Publications number over three hundred and embrace musical development and music education, teacher education, the psychology of music, singing and voice science, and music in special education and disability. Publications are primarily in English, but also appear in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Greek, Japanese and Chinese. He is on the editorial boards of the world’s leading journals in music education, including IJME, JRME, RSME, BJME, ACT and MER, as well as being Joint Editor of the new Hellenic Journal of Music, Education and Culture and also a Series Book Editor in applied music studies for Ashgate Press (seventeen books to date). External research funding awarded over the past decade as Principal Investigator totals over £4m and embraces over 35 projects. This includes grants from major UK Research Councils, the European Community, UK Government agencies, Local Authorities in England, the Australian Research Council and leading UK Charities. His research team received the Royal Society for Public Health 'Arts and Health' award in 2011 for research into the links between singing and social inclusion. He has been appointed to Chair the new Paul Hamlyn Foundation Expert Commission on music education in the UK from 2015.
special interests...
Musical Development Across the Lifespan, Early Childhood Education, Singing and Vocal Development, Special Needs Education, Psychology of Music, Learning and Teaching in Music, Teacher Education.
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