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 Projects

• Promoting quality of life through creative and collaborative music-making with an assistive digital music technology (4.9-CAT)

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