Deep Soundings on Bloomsbury

Paperback editions of the books in our series Deep Soundings: Critical Studies in Historical Ethnomusicology are now available through Bloomsbury press.

The books have received outstanding reviews and are now in many libraries.

Music and Politics Keynote

I look forward to giving a keynote speech soon for the 2025 Music Research Today (Musikforskning idag) conference of the Swedish Society for Music Research, hosted by the School of Music, Theatre and Art at Örebro University. This year’s conference theme is Music and Politics.  

 

Click HERE for a description of the keynote speeches. Below is the title and summary for my presentation.

 

Music Diplomacy Amid Populism and Protectionism

 

If one were to summarize the main political tendencies impacting the world today, far-right populism (with the rise of authoritarian leaders) combined with protectionism (featuring preoccupation with borders, migration and tariffs) would seem to be among the most prominent. There is also a noticeable shift from multilateralism toward transactionalism, which appears to be eroding the post-WWII world order through the ascent of BRICS and related alliances. How does music interact with these tendencies, and what hope might music provide in efforts to nudge humanity toward a more just and sustainable world in these uncertain times?  Music can play a highly effective role in cultural diplomacy that aims to bridge between ideological divides exacerbated by social media siloization. One relevant case comes from Samarkand, a great city on the historic Silk Road: The Sharq Taronalari Festival, which is one of the world's largest international folk music events, funded by UNESCO and the government of Uzbekistan. I participated in this spectacular festival on three different years, experiencing remarkable performances of traditional music from all inhabited continents. There are also entire institutions devoted to music diplomacy, a prominent example of which is the Barenboim-Said Academy, a conservatoire in Berlin founded with the purpose of inspiring cooperation between Arabs and Jews through classical music. In the field of Chinese music, a notable case was Copenhagen’s Music Confucius Institute, which I researched by interviewing expert pedagogues who had taught traditional Chinese musical instruments to European students. In the opposite direction, the Intensive World Music Concerts—developed across recent years among Chinese traditional instrument majors in the “Cross-Cultural Music Diplomacy” course at Beijing Language and Culture University—are another example, through which Chinese students learned to perform songs from Europe, Africa, Middle East, Polynesia, and the Americas. Finally, music diplomacy can also take the form of research and development initiatives. For example, the Sapmi Singing Map is a Norwegian Research Council-funded project that features close collaboration with Sami joikers to develop educational resources so their music, which had long been marginalized, can be sensitively taught to all students in Nordic schools. For each of these cases, anecdotes will be shared from direct personal experience, and each example will be considered in relation to state-of-the-art theories that provide a deepened understanding of music diplomacy. However, today perhaps the greatest threat to all these inspiring forms of heritage is AI’s unregulated colonization of human arts, so promising ways of responding to AI must also be briefly discussed. Taken as a whole, these examples show how the power of music diplomacy can foster forms of empathy and reconciliation that emphasize our shared humanity and thereby counteract the threat of deepening political divides.

 

Here I will note that I gave a speech covering some of the same examples in Hong Kong last month, but it looks quite unlikely even one person will be in the audience in Sweden who was also there in Hong Kong, so presumably nobody will notice or mind. I continue to refine the topic as well as how these examples are discussed. 

Image source (Orebro Castle): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%96rebro_slott_May_2014_01.jpg

GAME research group

The Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group has been achieving so much across recent years, exciting to see: many publications, grants, lectures, workshops and performance activities.

Recently we have meetings about once a month, and lately these are hybrid events with participants gathering in person in Bergen, Norway as well as online from North America, Asia, and Africa. Many GAME members plan to give presentations at the 2026 ISME World Conference in Montreal.

Pictured above is renowned composer Edvard Grieg, the most famous person from the city of Bergen, where the GAME research group (named for his legacy) is based.

Here is a photo from a GAME research group meeting (3 October 2025), which included many special guests. In person, we were joined by one of the GAME founders, Steinar Sætre, who brought guests from Uganda that are in the CABUTE project, Music subject leader Dr. Nicholas Ssempiija, PhD student Erisa Walubo, Vincent Muhindo, and Hellen Hasahya (new Master students who were traveling outside Uganda for the very first time), as well as Kjersti Elisabet Lea, a recent department head at University of Bergen. PhD student Knut Eysturstein was also here from University of the Faroe Islands. The event was hosted by HVL PhD student Kristian Iversen with support from our HVL postdoc Dr. Karan Choudhary, and included online guests from the CABUTE project in Uganda as well as Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and other institutions.

Online we were joined by HVL Associate Professor David T. Johnson, Julia Katarzyna Leikvoll (University of Bergen), Craig Resta (Kent State University, USA), Sangmi Kang (Eastman School of Music, USA), CABUTE postdoc Milton Wabyona (Makerere University, Uganda), CABUTE postdoc James Isabirye (Kyambogo University, Uganda), ISME Routledge Book Series Assistant Editor Esther Chunxiao Zhang (EdUHK), recent PhD graduate and Cantonese opera expert Kimmie Sin-Yee Ma (EdUHK), and Yuki Morijiri (Tokyo Gakugei University). The event featured insightful presentations by two PhD students who are nearing completion: Knut Eysturstein and Erisa Walubo, a stimulating presentation by Craig Resta on approaches to historical research in music education, and some brief introductory presentations of thesis concepts by new CABUTE Master students Vincent Muhindo, and Hellen Hasahya. Michael Chi-Hin Leung (EdUHK) also gave an interesting presentation on his music education technology research.

Unexpected Audience of 500000

I recall back in 2007 while working as an Assistant Professor at Boston University, I visited beautiful Kyoto, Japan for some research, and at some point realized it could be worthwhile to develop an online portfolio to post various academic and artistic activities, including photos and videos. That is when I launched this blog Sociomusicology.

Now it is really hard to believe that on the final day of September 2025, the site has attracted a half-million page views. Compared to newspapers and magazines, 500000 is not a very large number, but it is encouraging to see what can come from persistence across years, even in what would seem to be a niche academic subject area: music education, ethnomusicology, comparative education. I will post here an analysis of the traffic to this site, which could be interesting for anyone else who might also consider making a blog of their academic work.

One interesting point worth noting here is that the Singapore numbers look unbelievable, but across time I have realized this is due to the number of mainland Chinese who use a VPN that merely causes them to appear to be based in Singapore. 

 

Malaysian Music Research

It was a pleasant surprise to be invited by two different universities this Autumn to serve as a PhD examiner for students from Malaysia who have completed quite interesting doctoral dissertations.

One dissertation is a mixed methods empirical research study at the Royal College of Music, London, that examines how musical expressiveness is learned among Malaysian college students, with particular attention to non-western understandings of expressiveness in music performance.

Another doctoral dissertation is performance-based, an artistic research study at Malaysia’s leading private university (UCSI University) that examines the characters and vocal characteristics of soprano roles in opera.

I look forward to learning from this innovative research, and to posing some useful questions, and will report in detail here when the process is completed with new music Doctors from an exciting part of the world.  

Indeed, Malaysia is a quite interesting country, with a megadiverse tropical environment, and over 34 million people in a rapidly developing economy. It is notable that Malaysia invests heavily in education and has over 20 universities. There is an array of traditional music genres Malaysia, from the Nobat court music to genres associated with dance drama traditions, as well as regional and minority folk music styles, and even lovely children’s songs. 

Also, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, along with a new generation of singers and other world-class performers, have become known in the global field of western classical art music.

We can surely expect Malaysia to continue becoming an even more globally-impactful place for music and education in the coming years.

Chinese Translation Published

It was exciting to learn yesterday that a book I developed with Jon McCollum is now being published in Chinese translation by a team of outstanding music scholars.

Click HERE for more details (in Chinese language).

AI vs. IP in Music: An Issue for Ethnomusicology

I eagerly look forward to co-hosting the 2025 SEM Historical Ethnomusicology Section meetings with its current Chair, Otto Stuparitz, and to giving the following presentation at the 70^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 

AI vs. IP: Who Owns the World’s Music Today?

David G. Hebert (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) 

Abstract: 

At the 2025 Paris AI Summit, VPOTUS Vance declared to world leaders that “excessive regulation” harms the AI industry and will not be tolerated by the USA. His position contrasts with another VP, that of the world’s largest music company (Universal), who denounced AI’s “wholesale hijacking of the intellectual property of the entire creative community.” Indeed, as Suchir Balaji showed, the “fair use” doctrine cannot reasonably apply to the “training” of AI, whether in the form of text, images, or music, since the resulting synthetic products are designed to compete commercially with human-made creations. Law has arguably not kept pace with new technologies, including music AI, which flagrantly violates the spirit of copyright. How are ethnomusicologists to respond to AI in ways consistent with our values? Currently, the US, China, and Europe are the main centers of AI innovation, and of these the EU most explicitly protects privacy and AI safety (e.g. GDPR, EU AI Act). The US is also one of the only major countries that is not a signatory to major international agreements for safe AI development. Since SEM is a US-based organization, its members must consider the impact these US policies will ultimately have on music ownership and music creation worldwide. Based on a decolonial approach to IP in the context of international law, this presentation will identify established ethnomusicological values, then outline the legal arguments (and counterarguments) for regulating AI to protect musicians, promote cultural survival, and even ensure the future of human personal identity.

 

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This theme is also related to the work that our new postdoctoral researcher, Karan Choudhary, will pursue over the next few years, and who I hope may join me in future SEM conferences. His earlier work appears in the book Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy as well as various law journals. 

 

Image source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta#/media/File:Atlanta_Skyline_-_Piedmont_Park.png

 

Invited Lecture in Taiwan

National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) is the most international university in Taiwan, and among the highest ranked in Asia for teacher education and educational research. With a history of more than 100 years, it was founded during the Japanese occupation, known then as Taihoku College.

The College of Music at NTNU is also the most prominent Music institution in Taiwan.

I look forward to the opportunity to give an invited lecture there in Autumn 2025, during which I will share insights gained from the Global Competence Partnership project.

 

Decolonization of Musical Arts Education

It was a pleasure to learn just a few days ago that an article co-authored with my PhD student Erisa Walubo has been accepted by the journal Philosophy of Music Education Review. We expect it to be published sometime in the next six months.

The article offers a novel philosophical analysis of differing views on the notion of decolonization and how it can be applied to music education, or what is called “musical arts” education in much of Africa (since there it often entails the integration of singing, drumming, dancing, story-telling, and other practices).

Erisa Walubo is now revising what promises to be a strong PhD dissertation on Indigenous music and dance practices in Ugandan education, and has other interesting research articles in various stages of writing. Our collaboration, and Erisa’s doctoral studies, are sponsored by the CABUTE project, which also has many other publications under development, including by our postdoctoral researchers in music education James Isabirye and Milton Wabyona.

We eagerly look forward to seeing what the entire team will accomplish through the CABUTE project and the long-term impacts that their work will have for the improvement of education in Uganda. 

Congratulations to Erisa and the entire CABUTE team!  

Keynote Speech in China

I look forward to giving a keynote speech on Music Diplomacy for a major event in September 2025 at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Some of my favorite music scholars will be there. 

Click HERE for details.

Fieldwork Begins in Sapmi

[UPDATE 30 September 2025: Here is the new website for this project: https://www.hvl.no/en/research/project/singing-maps/]

It is exciting to be visiting Sapmi, the Sami homeland in the far north of the Nordic countries, for research on the Sami joik and singing practices. The Sapmi Singing Map project is probably the largest research project ever on Sami singing, involving a team of researchers (interdisciplinary, both Sami and non-Sami) across the next four years, with the purpose of not only documenting the joik but also developing research-based and culturally appropriate educational resources.

As part of the first phase of fieldwork, the team is visiting Kautokeino, Maze, and Øksfjord to interview and film notable joikers from diverse localities and generations. Yesterday we also crossed the Finnish border, filming the local nature and wildlife to help show the context of this heritage. There will be several more visits across the coming years, in different seasons, to help us better understand how to meaningfully describe this remarkable land and its unique people.

 

Hong Kong Summer School 2025

Five PhD students and postdoctoral researchers are now accompanying me to participate in the 2025 International Postgraduate Roundtable cum Summer School (IPRRFSS) hosted by the Graduate School, Education University of Hong Kong.

 

Established in 2011, the IPRRFSS offers an array of interdisciplinary research presentations in various formats. This is my second time to participate.

 

The 2025 theme is “Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Exploring Mind, Language and Environment for a Sustainable Future” and keynote speakers include psychologist Tatia Lee, linguist Xiaofei Lu, social psychologist Ying-yi Hong, educationist Marcus Pietsch, and other renowned scholars. I will be performing some music for the event's Gala Dinner along with EdUHK pianist Philbert Li (links to some of our previous performances are HERE and HERE).

 

We look forward to seeing the outcomes from this exciting event which is likely to inspire the young scholars who come to IPRRFSS from many different countries.

 

Below is a video from the 2024 IPRRFSS …

Image source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong#/media/File:Kowloon_Panorama_by_Ryan_Cheng_2010.jpg

More recordings are available HERE.

ISME Board in Montreal

Montreal is one of the largest cities in North America, with a diverse and vibrant arts scene. Above is a photo of downtown Montreal that I took shortly after arriving here.

It is a pleasure to be visiting Montreal for a board meeting of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), held here since we plan to hold the 37^th ISME World Conference in Montreal in one year: 26-31 July 2026.

The deadline to propose presentations for ISME 2026 is coming very soon!

Here is the conference website: https://www.ismeworldconference.org/isme26

Global Philosophy of Education

Details have now been announced for a unique conference on Global Philosophy of Education scheduled for 19-20 March 2026 in Amsterdam.

Posted here is the Call for Papers and other essential information. I am thankful to be one of the Invited Speakers along with distinguished scholars from around the world. 

The deadline to propose standard paper presentations is 15 November 2025. 

It is exciting to see a shared impetus toward more formally establishing this field, which is particularly coming from the conference hosts in Amsterdam. I look forward to participating and hope to see many colleagues there with a deep interest in global educational theory. 

 

Activities in Australasia, Summer 2025

It is exciting to now be visiting Australia for a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research (APSMER). This trip is sponsored by the Global Competence Partnership project since I will give a presentation here in Perth with our Hong Kong-based partner Koji Matsunobu.

Earlier in this voyage, I also gave a speech on AI for a symposium at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, joined a Board meeting of the Open Global Music Academy (OGMA), and taught Arts Policy for law students at China University of Political Science and Law.

Displayed here are photos from the event in Thailand, the CUPL course, the OGMA Board meeting, and a visit to the University of Melbourne school of music led by its former director Gary McPherson.

Music Diplomacy in Europe

It was thrilling to finally have a chance to visit a uniquely important center for music diplomacy in Europe, the Barenboim Said Academy, in Berlin, Germany.

I am so grateful for the invitation to give a lecture, meet students and staff, and learn all about their innovative activities. Particularly during this time, when tensions in the Middle East are surely as difficult as ever before, it is exciting to see what is being accomplished in Berlin through the unique power of music. 

I am eager to return, and look forward to new collaborations and opportunities to report on their inspiring activities. 

Approaches: Music Therapy

 

A special issue has just been published, Ethical Questions in Transforming Music Practices, in the journal Approaches – The Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy. 

It was a pleasure to serve on the Board under the leadership of Sanna Kivijärvi and Taru Koivisto.

 

The published issue is available online through these links: https://journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/issue/view/36/34 (PDF) and here https://journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/issue/view/36 (Journal's website). 

 

Echoes of the Anthropocene

I look forward to giving a keynote speech for the Association for Future Music Education (AFME)’s 5th International Conference in Seoul, Korea (February 6-7, 2026).

The conference is titled “Echoes of the Anthropocene: Rethinking Music Education in an Era of Crisis.”

Seoul is a very high-tech city that I have very much enjoyed visiting over the years, and here is a link to one of my publications that contains discussions of Korea:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-68434-5

 

Image source: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul#/media/File:Seoul_(175734251)_(cropped).jpg 

BSRS 2025 PhD Candidates

It is nearly time for the 2025 Bergen Summer Research School! 

The PhD Candidates for the first cohort of our new course Creative Innovations in Higher Education are coming to Bergen, Norway from 17 different countries and territories: South Africa, Madagascar, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Philippines, China, India, Spain, Norway, Germany, Czech Republic, and the Faroe Islands. 

They also represent a broad array of academic fields, from the natural sciences to social sciences, arts, and humanities. 

We expect two weeks of exciting discussions that may lead to some long-term collaborations to strengthen conditions and practices at universities worldwide.

This year, BSRS is led by Birgit Kopainsky, a prolific researcher and professor of systems dynamics at University of Bergen.

Click HERE to access the original song we presented at the Opening Event of BSRS 2025. 

APSMER conference in Perth

It is exciting to soon be giving presentations at the Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research (APSMER) conference in Perth, Australia.

APSMER is the Asia and Pacific regional conference of ISME, a global organization for which I serve on the Executive Committee and Board.

My presentations this year include (1) a co-authored paper with Koji Matsunobu that expands further on the concept of eco-musicality that we propose as a basis for philosophy of music education, and (2) a symposium presentation with Jiaxing Xie on our new book (now in the final editing stages) called A Philosophy of Music Education for the Era of AI: Dialogue between Chinese and Western Perspectives (Routledge).

We will also launch an innovative project that has been in development for several years, the Open Global Music Academy (OGMA) network, which will now be affiliated with APSMER.

I look forward to seeing colleagues and learning about the latest research in this field from across the Asia and Pacific regions.

 

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#/media/File:Perth_CBD_skyline_from_State_War_Memorial_Lookout,_2023,_04_b.jpg

 

Keynote at Philosophy of Education conference

 

I look forward to giving an invited keynote speech for the Global Philosophy of Education conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in March 2026.

This event is being organized as part of the project Global Philosophy of Education (GlobalPhilEd), sponsored by Volkswagen Stiftung, and led by philosophers in Germany and the Netherlands, including Anders Schinkel, Johannes Drerup and Anouk Zuurmond.

This event promising to be very interesting, with discussion of ideas concerning educational philosophy from around the world.

 

Image source: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam#/media/File:KeizersgrachtReguliersgrachtAmsterdam.jpg

 

Doctoral Dissertation Seminar

It is exciting to now be hosting a joint doctoral dissertation seminar through the GAME research group, with participants from several countries and regions: China, Japan, Hong Kong, Spain, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Norway, and Uganda. 

Here is our seminar schedule for 16 April 2025:

Presenter and Respondent;  Presentation Title 

Sherry Qiaoyue Liu  (respondent, Dr. David G. Hebert)

Impact of Participating in a Community Choir on Adults in Shenzhen, China

 

Flora Jinhan Wei  (respondent, Dr. James Isabirye)

Pre-Service Music Teachers in Mainland China: A Mixed-Method Research

 

Kristian Tverli Iversen  (respondent, Dr. Yuki Morijiri)

Research Design for a Study of AI in Music Education

 

 

SHORT BREAK

 

Elizabeth Anne Oltedal  (respondent, Dr. Yuki Morijiri)

Conviction and compromise: An exploratory study of social moderation in the assessment of music performance

 

Marianne Løkke Jakobsen  (respondent, Dr. Luna Ning Luo)

A Study of Interactions and Learning Experiences in the Cross-Cultural Virtual Learning Space: Case Studies of Instrumental Music Education between Denmark and China

 

Kay Wing-Ki Li  (respondent, Dr. David G. Hebert) 

Cultural Differences in Metacognitive Teaching: A Study of Instrumental Music Learning in Hong Kong

 

SHORT BREAK

 

Erisa Walubo  (respondent, Dr. Luna Ning Luo)

Decolonising Ugandan Primary Music Teacher Education through exploration of Indigenous practices of Amayebe musical tradition

 

Sergio Garcia-Cuesta  (respondent, Dr. James Isabirye)

Citizens Are/As Artists: An integrative approach to music education

 

Knut Eysturstein  (respondent, Dr. Milton Wabyona) 

Tracing Faroese Music Heritage in Education: Archival and Interview-Based Approaches

 

David G. Hebert: Concluding Remarks

 

Intensive Nordic Master Course in Finland

The Nordic Network for Music Education (NNME) has offered joint intensive Master courses for decades that have contributed to developing a shared professional community across Nordic and Baltic countries. Today we are excited to announce that we have funding to offer a course in 2025.

 

The 2025 NNME course is titled Socially, Ecologically, and Ethically Responsible Music Education and will be hosted by University of the Arts Helsinki at the Kallio-Kuninkala villa on 3-7 November 2025. Prof. Marja-Leena Juntunen is the local course host.

Grants are available to cover the costs of travel, lodging, and food for a limited number of participants.

This will be an outstanding opportunity for Master students in Music Education from across the Nordic and Baltic countries to present the concepts and ongoing work on their final thesis or project and obtain useful feedback. 

 

Participants will also have the chance to learn traditional songs and folk dances, make music with peers from other Nordic and Baltic countries, and learn from presentations related to the conference theme by Katya Thomson, Marja-Leena Juntunen, Heidi Partti, David G. Hebert, and others. Additionally, there will be traditional sauna, hikes, shared meals, and a visit to the Ainola, the home of Sibelius.

 

Here are links for more information about NNME and its courses:

https://www.hvl.no/en/collaboration/networks/nordic-network-for-music-education/

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781351045995/advancing-music-education-northern-europe-david-hebert-torunn-bakken-hauge

 

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kallio-Kuninkala_-_Sibelius_Academy_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg

Board Meeting in Montreal

I eagerly look forward to participating in a Board meeting of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Montreal, Canada, during summer 2025.

This will be an opportunity to discuss and collectively make decisions regarding ISME and its array of activities, while also making detailed plans regarding its upcoming world conference to be held in Montreal in summer 2026.

There are very interesting people on the ISME Board, from several different countries worldwide, and with expertise in diverse subfields of music education. We also have excellent leadership from the President, President-Elect, Past-President, and CEO, and the dedicated support of friendly and competent staff with the ISME executive office. This will also be my first time to Montreal, which seems to be an amazing city with a great history.  

ISME is commited to democratic governance, and members are welcome to share any issues or concerns they would like to see raised for discussion at the meeting. We hope for ISME to satisfy all members for its role in supporting music education worldwide. 

Public domain image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mtl_from_mont_royal_(cropped).jpg

 

Postdoc from Japan

It is an honor to announce that we will be hosting a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)-funded researcher during part of 2025-2026.

Yuki Morijiri (Associate Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University) has proposed research that will develop cross-cultural insights into Music Performance Anxiety, and other important topics, in collaboration with the GAME research group in Bergen, Norway.

Several years ago I lived in Japan, where I worked for Nichibunken, Yamanashi Gakuin University, and Tokyo Gakugei University, and ultimately produced some publications in the field of Japanese Studies. Japan has seen many changes across the years, and remains a globally prominent center for innovation in such fields as musical instruments and music technology. 

We are very pleased to have this opportunity to host an accomplished researcher from a country that is so important in the fields of music and education.

Public domain image source: https://snl.no/Japans_historie_etter_1945

 

Music Postdocs in Uganda

 

We are very happy to announce that James Isabirye (Kyambogo University) and Milton Wabyona (Makerere University) are being awarded postdoctoral fellowships, funded by the Norwegian government, through the CABUTE project.

It will be a pleasure to offer some mentoring as these accomplished scholars proceed toward completion of their research on music teaching and learning in Uganda. 

Their proposed studies promise to bring new insights to the field of music education, with both local and international applications. 

New PhD-Level Courses 2025

It is a pleasure to announce some PhD-level courses that will be offered in online format in 2025.

 

Doctoral students and postdoctoral junior faculty members (e.g. Assistant Professors, Lecturers, etc.) affiliated with any university are welcome to participate in these two courses:

 

• RESEARCH METHODS IN HIGHER EDUCATION (20 May – 3 June)

https://www.hvl.no/en/studies-at-hvl/study-programmes/research-methods-in-higher-education-sotl-module/

 

• RESEARCH SUPERVISION IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT (21 May – 4 June)

https://www.hvl.no/en/studies-at-hvl/study-programmes/research-supervision-in-an-international-context-module/

  

Doctoral students affiliated with any university can participate in this course as well (and in special cases, it may also be open to advanced Master students):  

 

• NON-WESTERN EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY (3-13 November)  

https://www.hvl.no/en/studies-at-hvl/study-programmes/courses/2025/phd911/

 

We also look forward to the upcoming PhD course Creative Innovations in Higher Education at Bergen Summer Research School: https://www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs/173600/creative-innovations-higher-education

 

Ecomusicality

Through the exciting collaboration enabled by the Global Competence Partnership project, it was a pleasure to produce an article recently with Koji Matsunobu that endorses the notion of Ecomusicality as a basis for environmentally-conscious ways of teaching music.

 

Our co-authored work is now being published in the oldest arts-related scholarly journal Arts Education Policy Review.

 

Our article extends on several of Matsunobu’s notable publications in this field, and some aspects are related to an article I published a few years ago in the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.

 

Here is the complete bibliographic reference and a link:

 

Matsunobu, K., & Hebert, D. G. (2025). Advancing sustainability in music education through eco-musicality. Arts Education Policy Review, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2025.2466440