Kirsty Devaney Editor

Kirsty Devaney is a composer and founder of the Young Composers Project at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Her music has been aired on BBC Radio 3 and shortlisted for a British Composer Award. She has won awards from the British Education Research Association, and funding from the Society for Research into Higher Education.

Martin Fautley is a Professor of Education at Birmingham City University, UK. He researches and writes about various aspects of teaching and learning in music, specialising in creativity and assessment. He is the author of ten books, as well as over sixty journal articles, book chapters, and academic research papers.

Joana Grow is a professor of music education at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany. Her areas of teaching and research are music composition, gender and music education, professionalization of student teachers, language-sensitive music education and teaching music history.

Annette Ziegenmeyer is a full professor of music education at the University of Luebeck (Germany). Her areas of teaching and research cover a broad range of topics such as e.g., music composition in schools and beyond, community music/music in social work and music education in prisons.