Paper Presentations (selected)

Representing Practice: community music and arts-based research
China Central Radio & TV University, Hangzhou, China, (July 2010)

Community Music: The workshop and the welcome.
Spirtuality and Music Education Conference, Birmingham, England, (June 2010)

The Weak Editor
MENC, Philosophy SRIG, Anaheim, CA, USA, (March 25-27 2010)

Community Music and the Individual
University of North Texas, Denton, USA, (November 2009)

Making the Grade: Assessing Preservice Teachers and Facilitators for School and Community Music Programs.
University of Florida, Florida, USA (April 2009).

Community Music and the Welcome
International Society of Music Education, Bologna, Italy, (August 2008)

Boundary-Walkers
MENC national conference, Milwaukee, USA (May 2008)

Developing Community Music Curriculum
International Festival of Community Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, (April 2008)

Community Music and Music Education
University of Washington, Seattle, USA (May 2007)
Invited lectures – Doctorial programme

M.phil, Research Seminar – The Impossible Future
University of Cambridge, UK (March 2007)
Invited lecture

The Workshop as Event
Cultural Diversity in Music and Dance Education (December 2006)
World Music and Dance Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Acts of Hospitality: The Community in Community Music
International Conference on Music Education, Equity, and Social Justice (October 2006)
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA

The Peterborough Community Samba Band: An Ethnographic Case Study.
International Society of Music Education, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (July 2006).

The Community in Community Music – Hospitality/Friendship
The National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (July 2006)

US Lecture Tour (February 2006)
New York University, University of Maryland, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Bergen Community College, New Jersey

International Commission for Community Music Activity, Tenerife, Spain (August, 2003)
Conference paper

Conceptualizations of Community Music
New York University, USA (October 2003)
Invited lecture

Community Arts in the UK
De Kunst Connectie, Music Education Conference, The Netherlands (April 2003)
Keynote lecture

Scandinavian Music Educators Network, Bergen, Norway (January 2001)
Keynote lecturer and performance

Conceptualizations of Community Music
International Commission for Community Music Activity, Toronto, Canada (July 2000)

Community Music and New Technology
International society of Music Education, World Conference, Edmonton, Canada (July 2000)

Growth, pathways and groundwork: Community music in the United Kingdom
University of Durban, Westville, South Africa, 1999
Invited lectures

ConCussion the Synthesis of Old and New Technologies
Research in Music Education, Exeter, UK (March 1999)

Intercultural Music Education in Europe, Amsterdam, June 1999
Invited lecture

Cultural Diversity in Music Education, Malmö, May 1999
Conference paper/workshop

Carnival Street Drumming: The Development and Survival of Community Percussion Ensembles in the UK
International society of Music Education, World Conference, Pretoria (July 1998)
Conference paper

Carnival Street Drumming: The Development and Survival of Community Percussion Ensembles in the UK. Commission for Community Music Activity, Durban, South Africa (July 1998)