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Dr Andrea Creech is Professor of Music at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. She formerly held the post of Professor in Didactique Instrumentale at the Faculty of Music, Université Laval (2016-2020), where she held a Canada Research Chair in music in community (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). Following an international orchestral and teaching career Andrea was awarded a PhD in Psychology in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London, where she subsequently worked, promoted to Reader in Education, in 2013. Andrea’s research has covered a wide range of issues in formal and informal music education contexts, including interpersonal dynamics in instrumental learning and teaching, informal learning in school music, inclusion, and music for positive youth development. Her recent research has focused on intergenerational and later-life music-making in community contexts, addressing questions relating to the social and emotional outcomes associated with music learning and participation, as well as the pedagogies and facilitation approaches that can support positive musical experience and lifelong learning. In her new role at McGill, Andrea is very excited to be researching innovative pedagogies and practices within tertiary music education. As part of this research strand, she is collaborating with international colleagues at Monash University, Australia, exploring signature pedagogies in creative collaboration. Andrea has presented at international conferences and published widely on topics concerned with musical development and lifelong learning and participation in the arts., including the Music for Life Project, funded by the UK Research Councils and winner of the Royal Society for Public Health’s award for research in Arts and Health, 2014. She is Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and Graduate Member of the British Psychological Association. Andrea is Editor of Psychology of Music and Chair of the Scientific Committee for the International Society for Music Education World Conferences 2020 and 2022. She is co-author of Active Ageing with Music, and co-editor of Music Education in the 21st Century in the UK. Andrea's most recent book -'Contexts for Music Learning and Participation: Developing and Sustaining Musical PossibleSelves' - will be published in September 2020. She has co-edited the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community (in press).
AGE-WELL Funded ProjectsOutputs
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Mapping the Musical LifecourseInternational expert seminar and networking event4.9-CAT McGill University, Université Laval | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-09-20 | | Using music technology creatively to enrich later-life: A literature reviewSystematic review of literature concerned with using technology to support musical engagement among older adults:
Creech, A. (2019). Using music technology creatively to enrich later-life: A literature review. Frontiers iPsychology - Performance Science ( 30 January 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00117). doi:DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00117
4.9-CAT McGill University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-03-03 | | Aging creatively with musicWebinar: part of the Room 217 Music Care webinar series
Archived here: https://www.room217.ca/aging
4.9-CAT McGill University | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2018-10-10 | | Learning and participation in music across the adult lifecourse: the role of higher educationWebinar for the Global Leaders programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1TJ1JOPO0&feature=youtu.be
4.9-CAT McGill University | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2019-03-04 | | Musicking and creative music technologies for enriching later-lifeMusicking and creative music technologies for enriching later-life
Andrea Creech
Abstract
In this paper I outline the case for the power of music as a restorative activity, and focus on the potential for music technologies to enrich opportunities for wellbeing and creativity in later-life contexts. There is a small but growing body of research suggesting that older people, even those with complex needs, are capable of, and interested in using music technologies. Using some examples of practice, I will highlight the multiple and significant benefits that may be derived from receptive or active creative music-making supported by a range of music technologies, and will consider the underpinning principles that could frame the design and use of later-life creative music technologies. Speaking from the perspective of a ‘digital immigrant’ for whom digital music technologies represent a landscape that can feel unfamiliar and even bewildering, I nonetheless argue in favour of the crucial importance of exploiting opportunities to use creative digital technologies to support continued playful, exploratory, and joyful musical experience.
This Keynote contributes a novel perspective to the field of music, wellbeing, and aging, and will have significance for all those interested in the power of music in later-life contexts. The Keynote speaker, Andrea Creech, is an acknowledged international expert in the field of music, wellbeing, and aging. She is currently leading a partnership project (funded by SSHRC, partnering with Room 217 and Wilfrid Laurier Centre for Music in Community) focused on the ways in which technologies can be mobilized and exploited in such a way as to overcome barriers to musical engagement, even amongst those with complex age-related challenges. Positioned within the emergent scientific field of gerontechnology (representing the intersection between ageing and technology studies), this Keynote will highlight groundbreaking research and practice concerned with creative uses of accessible music technologies, demonstrating how such practices could be embedded in daily routines within a range of later-life contexts.
4.9-CAT McGill University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-03-04 | | Music and Ageing Network: Music Care, Health and Wellness for Seniors A new national working group - Music Care Network exists to integrate our initial ruminations, research and vision into a solid plan including how we structure ourselves, as a network and what work we will engage in together and apart to advance our practices and policy.4.9-CAT Université Laval, McGill University | Networking and Partnerships | 2019-03-22 | | Creative Connections Through Music Making With The Soundbeam4.9-CAT Université Laval, McGill University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2021-09-23 | |
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