Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet - Griffith University

Site Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours (Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University)

Lecturer in Music Studies

Research/Creative Expertise

Research expertise extends across a range of topics that explore the contemporary realities of music-making, and includes community music, women's music, cross-cultural music projects, cultural policy, conducting practice and pedagogy and music autoethnography;
Dr Bartleet was Research Fellow on Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre’s ARC Linkage project Sound Links (2007-2008), one of Australia's largest studies into the dynamics of community music;
She is currently the Project Leader on an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Innovation and Development funded project that looks at service learning in the performing arts with Indigenous communities (2011-2013);
She is currently a Chief Investigator on Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre's ARC Linkage project Captive Audiences (2011-2013) that examines performing arts programs in Australian prisons;
She has recently co-edited three recent books on music research in Australasia, music autoethnography and pre-service music teacher education;
She has been a conductor of school, university and community ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan.

Commissioner on the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Activities Commission (2010-present);
Councillor for Research, Music Council of Australia (2010-present);
National Executive and National Committee of the Musicological Society of Australia (2004-2009);
Editorial board for the International Journal of Community Music (2008-present);
Lecturer and Conductor at the University of Queensland (2002-2006);
Multi-instrumental teacher in various Brisbane schools and the Sarasas Ektra School, Bangkok, Thailand (1999-2004).