Postgraduate Research in Music Education Symposium

PG Research in Music Education Symposium

9.45am – 5pm Friday 31st October 2025 on Zoom.             #RMES2025

Trinity Laban’s Department of Music Education is pleased to invite delegates to their sixth Postgraduate Research in Music Education Symposium. This event offers a forum for current or recent graduates across music education and community music to present their dissertation or personal project studies in a collegiate and supportive environment.

The symposium is for all interested in the latest research in music education or participatory music from the UK and internationally, and presentations will address a wide range of concerns from instrumental teaching, classroom music and community music. We have a really international community gathering today, with delegates from multiple HEIs across three continents. The team chairing today are: Nicola Tagoe, doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, and Lecturer in Music at Trinity Laban and Dr Robert Wells, independent researcher, HE consultant, and Lecturer in Music Education at Trinity Laban.

Trinity Laban has a range of music education and participation modules at undergraduate level, and a Department of Music Education that hosts around 50 students on three different Masters programmes, and a further 55 students on a partnership programme with The Open University. The MA in Music Education & Performance intertwines development as a performer with a rigorous development in music education as both a practice and a subject of study. We also offer a one-year MA in Music Education, and a part-time MEd in Music Education (Online). The online programme is for established professionals and is designed to be studied alongside full-time work. The Department of Music Education currently has 15 nationalities represented within the postgraduate programmes, meaning that study takes place within a truly international cohort.

It is free to attend, tickets are available via Eventbrite. The schedule for the day is available here.

I hope that you enjoy the day, and even whilst we are online I hope also that we can find time to informally meet and develop a community of like-minded researchers.

Dr Robert Wells

Lecturer in Music Education