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Elizabeth MacGregor

@ehmacgregor.bsky.social
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Music education researcher. Teaching Fellow in Music Education and Performance, University of Leeds. Assistant Editor, Research Studies in Music Education. Network Lead, British Educational Research Association Neurodivergent Researchers Network.

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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What a joy to celebrate the launch of the fourth edition of Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School with wonderful colleagues today - @gary-spruce.bsky.social @drannamariguddi.bsky.social @proffautley.bsky.social @nancyevans.bsky.social and many more 🩷
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's arrived! Complete with brand new cover design and brilliant contributions from Anthony Anderson, Carolyn Cooke, Victoria Kinsella, John Finney, Chris Philpott, @proffautley.bsky.social, @gary-spruce.bsky.social, @kirstydevaney.bsky.social, @drannamariguddi.bsky.social, and others 🙌
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Please do add your name to this petition: c.org/9WbN9Np4sw 🎵
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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Please take a look at our new 🗝️open access🗝️ article based on @sparcsheffield.bsky.social research at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, Peterborough Sings! and funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1177/0255...
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Investigating Amateur Choirs in the United Kingdom as Sites of Musical Learning and Ambition - Stephanie E. Pitts, Elizabeth H. MacGregor, 2025
Singing in an amateur choir is widely recognised as a source of enjoyment, social connection, and wellbeing. Choir membership in the United Kingdom, however, is...
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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Very enjoyable Thursday morning recording a podcast episode with Dr Viv John in the studio and Dr @ehmacgregor.bsky.social (+ Walnut the dog) in Oxford. Plenty of critique for the National Plans for Music Education of both England and Wales!
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Gradually populating my new office in the lovely School of Music @universityofleeds.bsky.social 📚💻📝
An office desk by a window.An office desk in front of some bookshelves.
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
What a privilege to present alongside esteemed colleagues Alexandra Kertz-Welzel and Huib Schippers today at #CDIME2025 @micireland.bsky.social.
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The final farewell after two years at @somervillecollege.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social.
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Settling into #Brighton ahead of #BERA2025 @beranews.bsky.social
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Excited to have just sent off the page proofs for Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School (4th edition)! It's looking fantastic, complete with new chapters on #digitalmusic, #inclusion, and #composing, plus a fresh front cover design ❤️⭐🎵 www.routledge.com/Learning-to-...
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
New term, new job! My new institutional home for the next two years @universityofleeds.bsky.social #music #musiced
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
For me, reading the first edition of Debates in Music Teaching was one of the those "wow!" moments - so what a privilege to feature in the second edition alongside such stellar authors! ⭐✨⭐ @gary-spruce.bsky.social @proffautley.bsky.social @sueyoungmusic.bsky.social @drannamariguddi.bsky.social
Front cover of "Debates in Music Teaching" Contents page of "Debates in Music Teaching"
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I'm delighted to see this article published in Arts Education Policy Review (🔑OPEN ACCESS🔑) with my wonderful colleagues @thomasbreeze.bsky.social and Viv John. #MusicEd #CardiffMet @somervillecollege.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1063...
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A National Plan for Music Education: A comparative “What’s the Problem Represented to Be?” analysis across England and Wales
In 2022 both England and Wales released policy documents entitled A National Plan for Music Education. While the English policy was a long-awaited update to a similar policy published in 2011, the ...
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Two articles published in one week! One on #singing with the wonderful @sparcsheffield.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social and one on #vulnerability from my recent research at @somervillecollege.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social. 🎵 doi.org/10.1386/ijcm... ✏️ doi.org/10.1177/1468...
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Evaluating collaborative action ethnography as a means of co-constructing ‘pedagogies of vulnerability’ in the post-pandemic music classroom - Elizabeth H MacGregor, 2025
Following the lengthy period of isolation enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the imperative for qualitative researchers to re-engage in personal and participato...
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Faculty of Music, Oxford University @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Timothy Coombes, ‪@marinuleccia.bsky.social‬, @ehmacgregor.bsky.social, and Javier Rivas will each give presentations at OSiMTA on Tuesday. Please do join us from 5pm for this session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play.
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Delighted to end #RiME2025 presenting alongside Chris Philpott on musical meaning and knowledge... and even to get a mention alongside this stellar list of scholars...
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very much looking forward to presenting two papers at #RiME2025 this Thursday and Friday! I'll be drawing on my postdoctoral research @somervillecollege.bsky.social and some recent work with the Group for Research in Music Education at Cardiff Metropolitan @thomasbreeze.bsky.social
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Lovely to catch up with so many @sheffielduni.bsky.social friends at #sempre last week!
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The survivors at #sempre! Grateful to those who hung on until the very last session to hear my presentation on collaborative action ethnography, and to @eunice-tang.bsky.social for the photographs!
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Eunice S. Y. Tang @eunice-tang.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Grateful to present my PhD study at SEMPRE Spring Conference 2025 at RNCM! My talk on autism and inclusion in UK higher music education was warmly received. Thanks to my supervisors Prof Graham Welch and Dr Austin Griffiths and all brilliant scholars I connected with for the inspiring conversations!
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Stephanie Pitts @sparcsheffield.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thanks Amanda @studylistening.bsky.social - great summary! Pleasure to be at #SEMPRE hearing so much good research - need a bit of time to digest it all now. Congrats to the brilliant organisers!
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Another fantastic Hickman Award presentation at #sempre from @drmkirby.bsky.social on co-collaborative research with people with learning disabilities 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Having a wonderful time at the #sempre conference today! Thanks to @karenburland.bsky.social for her keynote earlier and looking forward to presenting with @sparcsheffield.bsky.social tomorrow 🎵🎶
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A wonderful time was had @somervillecollege.bsky.social launching my book with @sparcsheffield.bsky.social @proffautley.bsky.social @gary-spruce.bsky.social and many others. Thank you all for your support 🥰
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am over the moon to have finally received copies of my new book! And there's still time to sign up to the book launch this coming Friday 21 February if you haven't already: forms.office.com/e/R19Rrhknr4 #musiced #vulnerability @somervillecollege.bsky.social @sparcsheffield.bsky.social
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My first journal submission from my current postdoctoral research on #musicalvulnerability #musiced @somervillecollege.bsky.social 🙌✍️🤞
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I recorded a podcast! On vulnerability, risk, and a little foray into the long-term personal impact of researching music in higher education 🎵⚠️🎓✏️ themusiceducationpodcast.buzzsprout.com #MusicEd #AcademicChatter
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The Music Education Podcast
Listen for authentic and challenging conversation on all things music ed. Brought to you by SoundStorm Music Education Agency, lead partner of the BCP music education hub . Hosted and produced by Chri...
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It was a joy to visit @ioe.bsky.social yesterday to present my current research on musical vulnerability to iMerc with @eunice-tang.bsky.social.
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hprior.bsky.social @hprior.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The next SEMPRE spring conference will be held at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK, on 9 and 10 April 2025. Abstracts for this conference just be submitted by 31st January 2025. www.sempre.org.uk/conferences/...
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Sempre :: Society for Education and Music Psychology Research - Spring 2025
Sempre: Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Anyone interested in #musiced is cordially invited. Please share widely!
Musical Vulnerability: Book Launch. Friday 21 February 2025, 5-7pm, Somerville College, Oxford.
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Elizabeth MacGregor @ehmacgregor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Please keep your eyes out for the release of my NEW BOOK in two weeks' time! It's available for pre-order now - tell your libraries! ✏️📚🎶 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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Musical Vulnerability | Receptivity, Susceptibility, and Care in the M
Since the early twenty- first century, music education across the world has been shaped by neoliberal discourse extolling the benefits of music upon academic
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