Research projects
MEHEM UpRising!
Improving music activities to engage young people with special educational needs, and / or disabilities and enhancing t...
Curriculum models in school practices
Understanding the impact of whole school curriculum models on music subject leader practices.
Through the Music Maze: Creative Composing for young children
This research will develop understandings of how to use repertoire as a stimulus that opens the composing horizons for...
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Resolution project
Working with young people to create new music around the theme of auto-immune disease.
Imagine Compose
Imagine Compose explored how groups of beginner instrumentalists up to Grade 3, can compose within a “Wider Opportunit...
Teach Through Music
The evaluative report undertaken by Birmingham City University detailed a variety of perspectives on the Teach Through...
Youth Music: Exchanging Notes
Can getting young people involved in musical activities help those at risk of low attainment or exclusion?
Whole Class Ensemble Teaching Research Report
How successful is Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET)?
Just Play
Highlighting key themes in music education for young people
Go Compose
Working in partnership with Sound and Music to understand more regarding musical learning through composing
Voices Foundation Singing Schools Programme
Examining the impact the Singing School model has on the educational outcomes of children and young people
Evaluation of BBC Ten Pieces initiative
Sound Connections, a leading music charity based in London, approached BCU to act as the data analysis partner in an e...
Analysing accessible music education
Evaluating music education in projects with specialised instruments for those with upper-limb disabilities.
AHRC Network - Representations of/in classical music
What does classical music mean to today's generation?
Educational resilience through community arts education
Investigating the impact of community arts provision on educational resilience.