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BEd BMus MA PhD PGCert (Kodaly) SFHEA

Dr Mary Stakelum is Area Leader for 51³Ô¹Ï Education and Programme Leader on the MEd and MMusEd.  

Previous roles have included Director of Research and Head of Postgraduate Programmes (Bath Spa University), Associate Director of Graduate School, Course leader for MA Instrumental Teaching, BA Ed 51³Ô¹Ï specialism and PGCE Secondary music (University of Reading), and Lecturer in 51³Ô¹Ï and 51³Ô¹Ï Education (University of Limerick).   

Research interests: 

a) Partnership pedagogy and inclusive practices 

b) Interdisciplinary approaches to exploring sound 

c) Children’s musical worlds 

She has externally examined EdD and PhD students on topics related to music education. In addition to her advocacy work on music education, she has undertaken reviews of programmes and research projects at various universities in the UK and internationally.  

Dr Stakelum served two terms as elected board member of the European Association for 51³Ô¹Ï in Schools (), and previously led its Doctoral Student Forum (2011 to 2018). More recently she has joined the Steering Advisory Board of its pan-European collaborative research and development network Teacher Education Academy for 51³Ô¹Ï ().  

In her own research, she is developing the concept of rewilding music education and exploring new directions in cultural sustainability with an interdisciplinary arts team in Hatay Province, Turkey.  

She is a Trustee of the Society for Education and 51³Ô¹Ï Psychology Research (), sits on the committee of 51³Ô¹ÏHE, is co-chair of the Advisory Board of Magic Acorns () editor in chief of the international peer reviewed journal 51³Ô¹Ï Education Research and conference director of the biennial International Conference on Research in 51³Ô¹Ï Education ().

Selected publications

Stakelum M (2024), 51³Ô¹Ï literacy and the instrumental teacher, 51³Ô¹Ï Education Research, 26(1), 47-57 [].

Stakelum M (2022), Understanding 51³Ô¹Ï Education: Exploring Children’s 51³Ô¹Ïal Worlds, Sage [].

Stakelum M (2019), James Cooksey Culwick: the rudiments of music (1882), in K Houston, M McHale, & M Murphy (eds.), Documents of Irish 51³Ô¹Ï History in the Long Nineteenth Century, Irish 51³Ô¹Ïal Studies Vol. 12 (pp. 75-84), Four Courts Press [].

Stakelum M (2017), The business of music: creativity and innovation in the classroom, in R Girdzijauskiene & M Stakelum (eds.), European Perspectives on 51³Ô¹Ï Education Vol. 7: Creativity and Innovation (pp. 105-120), Helbling [].

Stakelum M (2016), Harnessing the everyday use of technology to create inclusive musical interactions in the classroom, in N Economidou & M Stakelum (eds.), European Perspectives on 51³Ô¹Ï Education Vol. 4: Every Learner Counts: Democracy and Inclusion in 51³Ô¹Ï Education (pp. 97-110), Helbling [].

Stakelum M (2014), Boundaries and bridges: the influence of James Cooksey Culwick on the development of the teaching and learning of music in 19th-century Ireland, International Journal of 51³Ô¹Ï Education, 32 (4), 409-421 [].

Stakelum M & Baker D (2013), The MaPS project: mapping teachers’ conceptions of musical development, In M Stakelum (ed.), Developing the 51³Ô¹Ïian: Contemporary Perspectives on Teaching and Learning, SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of 51³Ô¹Ï (pp. 135-154), Ashgate [].

Stakelum M (2011), An analysis of verbal responses to music in a group of adult non-specialists, 51³Ô¹Ï Education Research, 13(2), 173-97 [].

Faculties / departments: Research, Academic staff

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