Prof Zack Moir
| Post Nominals | BA MMus PhD PGCAP PFHEA |
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| Biography | Prof Zack Moir is Professor of Music and School Academic Lead for Curriculum Design (School of Arts and Creative Industries). He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Zack’s research interests are in popular music in higher education, music education for social justice, and composition/improvisation pedagogies. Zack is the lead editor of ‘The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspective and Practices’ (2019), an editor of ‘The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education’ (2017), and an editor of ‘Action Based Approaches in Popular Music Education (2021). Zack is the Chair of the International Society for Music Education's Popular Music Special Interest Group and is on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education. Zack is also an active composer/musician. Recent compositions include pieces for saxophone and tape, solo cello, and a reactive generative sound art installation for the Edinburgh International Science Festival. |
| Research Interests | Music education for social justice Critical consciousness and higher education Popular music in higher education Popular music composition Composition pedagogy Data sonification Improvisation Real-Time Collaborative Networked Performance |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Popular Music Education Social Justice in Higher Education Music Education Popular Music Composition Improvisation |