Dr Emma Nenadic
Research Assistant in Music Education
School of Education and Social Work
- Email:
- emma.nenadic@bcu.ac.uk
Dr. Emma Nenadic is Research Assistant in Music Education and supports a number of Birmingham Music Education Research Group projects. She is currently researching primary school composing, the development of creative pedagogies in primary school curricula and the impact of adapted instruments and equipment on access to whole class ensemble tuition. She is a Board Member 2023-2025 for the European Association for Music in Schools and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Emma holds a Music degree from the University of York and managed Learning and Participation programmes at music organisations B:Music, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Severn Arts, and West Midlands Music before obtaining her PhD in Education under the supervision of Professor Martin Fautley, Dr. Victoria Kinsella and Dr. Anthony Anderson. Her thesis centred on learning cultures within three English music education partnership projects encompassing choral, orchestral, and contemporary music settings.
Current Activity
Current projects include:
- Listen Imagine Compose Primary funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Co-investigator
- Creativity Collaboratives funded by Arts Council England – Co-investigator
- Inclusive Access to Music Making funded by The OHMI Trust – Principal Investigator
- Soundcastle Mentoring Programme funded by Soundcastle.
Completed projects include:
- Music Makers of the Future funded by West Midlands Music/Music Mark – Principal Investigator
- The OHMI Trust: research into teaching and learning in Birmingham and Surrey – Graduate Research Assistant
- Croydon Music Hub: The implications of WCET transferred to secondary schools in Croydon - Graduate Research Assistant
- Exchanging Notes funded by Youth Music - Graduate Research Assistant
- BCU School of Education: Primary teacher trainees’ experiences of music provision in placement schools – Graduate Research Assistant
Areas of Expertise
- Music education
- Music education partnership working
- Inclusive music education practice
- Arts and cultural education
- Creativity
Qualifications
- PhD. Birmingham City University 2023
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- BA (Hons) Music. University of York 2008
Memberships
- Member of the British Education Research Association (BERA)
- European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) and EAS 2023-25 Board Member
Research
- Music education
- Music education partnership working
- Inclusive music education practice
- Arts and cultural education
- Creativity
Publications
PhD Thesis
(2023) Doctoral dissertation - Where is the learning between young people, teachers, and professional musicians? A study of learning cultures within three music education partnership projects in England. Birmingham City University, UK.
Book Chapters
(2022) Birmingham Case Study. Professional Concert Performed Exclusively for School Audiences. In Bernhofer, A., Mall, P., & Vidulin, S. (Eds.) Schools@Concerts: Tuning up for the music experience (Vol. 10). Helbling Publishing, Austria.
(2018) Booth, N., Kuppan, G., Longtin, J., Nenadic, E. Assessing the International Principles of Assessment in Music Education. In Timothy S. Brophy and Martin Fautley (2018) Context Matters. Selected Papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education.
(2020) Bernhofer, A., Mall, P., Vidulin S., Nenadic E., Konkol, G., Beqiri-Vula, L. Students@Concerts - Results of Students' Experiences and Memories from the European Research Project Schools@Concerts. In European Perspectives on Music Education Vol. 9: Make Music Matter - Music Education Meeting the Needs of Young Learners. Helbling Publishing, Austria.
Other articles and papers
(2023) Nenadic, E. and Booth, N. Removing Barriers in whole-class ensemble teaching. Music Teacher magazine (May 2023 Edition). London: Mark Allen Group.
(2022) Blog for CSPACE - Making access to whole class ensemble teaching and learning inclusive. Available here: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/education-and-social-work/research/cspace-blog/making-access-to-whole-class-ensemble-teaching-and-learning-inclusive
(2018) Blog for Music Mark - When disability meets possibility – An exclusive review of the OHMI conference. Available here: https://www.musicmark.org.uk/news/when-disability-meets-possibility-an-exclusive-review-of-the-ohmi-conference/
Research Projects
(2023) Nenadic, E., MacGregor, E., and Booth, N. Independent Evaluation: Inclusive Access to Music-Making (IAMM) Project. Birmingham City University. For Arts Council England and The OHMI Trust.
(2022) Nenadic, E. and Booth, N. Music Makers of the Future Evaluation Report. Birmingham City University. For West Midlands Music.
(2022) Theory of Change – Kinsella, V., Booth, N. Anderson, A. and Nenadic, E. Birmingham Arts School: Year 1 Theory of Change 2022. Birmingham City University, UK.
(2022) Kinsella, V., Nenadic, E. and Booth, N. Creativity Collaboratives Year 1 Interim Report 2022. Birmingham City University, UK.
(2022) Nenadic, E. and Booth, N. Independent Evaluation: Inclusive Access to Music-Making (IAMM) Project. Birmingham City University. For Arts Council England and The OHMI Trust.
(2021) Devaney, K. and Nenadic, E. Music Teaching Provision in Primary Schools: Key Findings 2019. Birmingham City University, UK.
Published Reviews
(2020) Book review: Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord. 2018. Routledge, UK. In British Journal of Music Education, 37:1.
(2018) Book review: Teaching Music Creatively (Second Edition). 2017. Routledge, UK. In Education 3-13, 45:6.
Conference Papers
(2023) Workshop:- McGregor, E., Davey-Nicklin, K., Fautley, M., Anderson, A., and Nenadic, E. How singing changed the course of human history: An interactive workshop exploring joint music-making, rhythmic entrainment, and social bonding. Annual CSPACE Research Conference: Rhythms of Learning and Living. Birmingham City University, UK, 5 July 2023.
(2023) Becoming A Beatmaker: exploring the practices and pedagogies in a music production course for 11–18-year-olds in England. European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) 30th Annual Conference: Liberty – Equity – Creativity: Innovating and Inventing Music in the Classroom, Lyon University, 26 May 2023.
(2023) Co-presentation: - Fautley, M., Evans, N., Nenadic, E. Listen Imagine Compose Primary – A Participatory Action Research Project. European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) 30th Annual Conference: Liberty – Equity – Creativity: Innovating and Inventing Music in the Classroom, Lyon University, 26 May 2023.
(2023) The influence of accessible musical instruments on parity of access and experience in whole-class ensemble lessons for children with additional needs in England. Research in Music Education (RIME) Conference, online, 13 April 2023.
(2022) Music Makers of the Future. West Midlands Music Day. Birmingham, UK, 8 November 2022.
(2022) Co-presentation: - Nenadic, E., and Booth, N. Making Access to Whole Class Ensemble Teaching and Learning Inclusive. Annual CSPACE Research Conference: Hopeful Matters: a 1000 Little Fires. Birmingham City University, UK, 5-6 July 2022.
(2022) Re-centering learning within music education partnership projects. European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) 29th Annual Conference: Music and Meaning, University of Belgrade, 20 May 2022.
(2019) Where is the learning in music education partnership projects in England? Students’ perspectives. 5th Annual CSPACE Research Conference, Birmingham City University, UK, 9 July 2019.
(2019) Co-presentation: Andreas Bernhofer, Gabriela Konkol, Peter Mall, Emma Nenadic and Sabina Vidulin. Students@Concerts. Results of Students' Expectations and Experiences from the European Research Project Schools@Concerts. European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) 27th Annual Conference: The School I'd Like, Lund University/Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden, 17 May 2019.
(2019) Where is the learning in music education partnership projects in England? Children’s perspectives. European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) 27th Annual Conference: The School I'd Like, Lund University/Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden, 16 May 2019.
(2019) Where is the learning between teachers, pupils and visiting musicians during music education partnership projects? A multiple case study of two composing projects in six English secondary schools. Research in Music Education (RIME) Conference, Bath Spa University, UK, 25 April 2019.
(2018) Co-presentation: Dr Victoria Kinsella, Professor Martin Fautley, Dr Adam Whittaker and Emma Nenadic. The OHMI Teaching Pilot. The Inaugural OHMI (One Handed Musical Instrument) Trust Conference & Awards 2018, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK, 7 September 2018.
(2018) “In too deep”: pilot study findings investigating learning between teachers, visiting musicians and pupils engaged in music education partnership working. 4th Annual CSPACE Research Conference, Birmingham City University, UK, 3 July 2018.
(2018) Poster Presentation. Where is the learning between teachers, musicians and pupils during music education partnership projects? A Pilot Study. European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) 26th Annual Conference: Competencies in Music Education, Jelgava, Latvia, 15 March 2018.
(2017) Where is the learning between teachers, artists and pupils during in-school music education projects? 3rd Annual CSPACE Research Conference, Birmingham City University, UK, 10 July 2017.
(2017) Where is the Learning in Music Education Partnerships? Introduction to Emerging Themes in Literature Review. RESCON, Birmingham City University, UK.