Jennifer Newsome

Jennifer is a PhD candidate and sessional lecturer at the ANU School of Music. Her PhD research - Expectations and Opportunities: Addressing the priorities and requirements of diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities in engaging with the Australian tertiary music education system - is investigating ways of improving outcomes for diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities in the Australian tertiary music education system through an Indigenous-informed co-design case study at the ANU School of Music. Her previous teaching and research was based at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) at the University of Adelaide, where for nearly 30 years she contributed to the co-development and implementation of a range of collaboratively-framed participatory-action research projects and innovative community-integrated strategic initiatives in support of the cultural and educational rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities in the Australian tertiary music education system. Her publications and conference presentations have encompassed topics on applied research in Australian First Nations’ contexts, Australian Indigenous tertiary music education, historical biography and historical discourse on South Australian Aboriginal music and culture. She has also been involved in the curation of a wide variety of performance events and the commissioning and premiere performance of new Australian music, including as a professional flautist. She is a long-standing member of the International Council for Traditional music (ICTM) where she was a founding member of the ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology. She is a recipient of the ANU Kathleen Woodroofe PhD Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences.