Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Biography

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor at the Creative Arts Research Institute and Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. She is an internationally recognised scholar of community music with a particular interest in social justice, equity, and inclusion. Her current research projects investigate the role that community music can play in addressing entrenched social inequity, promoting cultural determinants of health for First Nations’ Peoples, and fostering social connections for those experiencing poverty and homelessness. Her research lies at the intersection of music, social justice, health equity, community development, inclusive education, and human rights. She has published a number of field-defining books, including the Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2018, OUP), and produced 200 high-impact scholarly articles, book chapters, international keynotes, major sector reports, and community resources.

She has been awarded six Australian Research Council grants, an Office for Learning & Teaching Innovation and Development grant, nine industry-funded research projects, and five prestigious fellowships for music research in First Nations’ communities, prisons, war-affected cities, remote regions, health, educational, and industry contexts. She is currently President of the Social Impact of Music Making international research platform (Belgium), Associate Editor of the International Journal of Community Music, Non-Executive Director of QMF (Queensland Music Festival), and Senior Research Fellow with the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (Canada). Her awards include a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (New York University, 2022), a Singapore International Foundation Arts for Good Fellowship (2018-2019), and Australian University Teacher of the Year (2014). Prior to her ARC Future Fellowship she served as Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and Deputy Director (Research) of the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

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