Mr Bryden Stillie
| Post Nominals | PFHEA |
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| Biography | Bryden Stillie is an Associate Professor in Music and Head of Learning and Teaching in the School of Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Bryden graduated from the prestigious BA Applied Music programme at The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 1999, and has subsequently completed two PGCert qualifications in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2008), and Blended and Online Education (2017). He has worked as an external advisor and as an external examiner for a range of further, and higher, education providers and institutions in the UK, and worked with the Scottish Qualifications Authority as the Higher Education Specialist on the Qualification Design Team for the Advanced Higher Music Technology qualification. His teaching specialisms are in drum kit performance, music technology, music education, and musicianship skills. His research fields include: developing new pedagogic approaches to teaching electronic and hybrid drum kit performance; exploring music student transitions from school, college and industry into Higher Education; and using learning technologies to enhance the student learning experience. |
| Research Interests | Bryden is working at the forefront of modern drum kit education and has published on his development of pedagogic approaches to teaching electronic drum kit technologies, his development of a notation standard for these instruments, and on the experience of his students studying his course. Additionally, Bryden's current research explorings the haphazard pathways that learners take to accessing HE music programmes. He is on the working group of professional organisations and HE providers who are examining how Tertiary and Higher Education can work more closely together to ensure that school leavers are better prepared to study music at FE and HE levels. His research has enabled him to design and implement new music qualifications that widen participation in music and provide a more relevant and streamlined learner journey into HE and FE study. |