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The STROKESTRA® Community Programme: Research Report (2025)
Report
King, E., Presicce, G., Dunn, R., Prior, H., & White, C. (2025). The STROKESTRA® Community Programme: Research Report. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Executive Summary:
This research project explored the effectiveness of a pioneering stroke rehabilitation programme called the STROKESTRA Community Programme (SCP). The SCP aimed to facilitate recovery in stroke survivors and to support their carers... Read More about The STROKESTRA® Community Programme: Research Report.

Chinese Whispers: an Investigation into the Design and Delivery of a Mandarin Singing Curriculum in the UK. (2024)
Thesis
Lu, Y. (2024). Chinese Whispers: an Investigation into the Design and Delivery of a Mandarin Singing Curriculum in the UK. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5077710

The learning of a non-native language is considered to be “strategically vital” in the proposals for a NationalLanguage Strategy in the UK (ASCL, 2020). As part of the University of Hull’s Chinese Whispers project, this thesis investigated the develo... Read More about Chinese Whispers: an Investigation into the Design and Delivery of a Mandarin Singing Curriculum in the UK..

The Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers' Use of Technology and the Impact of Using Technology: The Case of 'Internet + Music’. (2022)
Thesis
Zhang, X. The Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers' Use of Technology and the Impact of Using Technology: The Case of 'Internet + Music’. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866195

With the rapid development of technology in the digital age, the wave of using technology in music education seems unstoppable. Although technology is often encouraged to enhance and improve the effectiveness of music education, the factors influenci... Read More about The Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers' Use of Technology and the Impact of Using Technology: The Case of 'Internet + Music’..

How Can Music Help Us To Address The Climate Crisis (2022)
Journal Article
Prior, H. (in press). How Can Music Help Us To Address The Climate Crisis. Music and Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043221075725

Musicians and music psychologists are acutely aware of the power of music and its ability to influence our emotions, moods, thoughts, wellbeing, identity, and behaviour towards others. Indeed, music is often used to help address specific problems, es... Read More about How Can Music Help Us To Address The Climate Crisis.

Exploring the Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers’ Perceptions and Behavioural Intentions in Using Technology in Higher Education: A Pilot Study (2021)
Journal Article
King, A., Zhang, X., & Prior, H. (in press). Exploring the Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers’ Perceptions and Behavioural Intentions in Using Technology in Higher Education: A Pilot Study. Music and Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211044819

The development of new technologies drives many aspects of socio-economic development, including the development of education. The behavioural intention of music teachers, particularly in relation to how technology is integrated into the classroom, n... Read More about Exploring the Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers’ Perceptions and Behavioural Intentions in Using Technology in Higher Education: A Pilot Study.

Reports from the field: Connect: Resound as a support for music making in rural England (2020)
Book Chapter
King, A., Prior, H. M., & Waddington-Jones, C. (2020). Reports from the field: Connect: Resound as a support for music making in rural England. In J. L. Waldron, S. Horsley, & K. K. Veblen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning (265-273). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190660772.013.16

Connect: Resound is an ongoing project supporting music for schools in England with limited access to teachers and instruments. This field report focuses on the ways in which online technology in Connect: Resound is used to facilitate lessons. It is... Read More about Reports from the field: Connect: Resound as a support for music making in rural England.

Connect Resound: Using online technology to deliver music education to remote communities (2019)
Journal Article
King, A., Prior, H., & Waddington-Jones, C. (2019). Connect Resound: Using online technology to deliver music education to remote communities. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 12(2), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte_00006_1

This article describes an action research project that aimed to widen participation for music education in schools in England (United Kingdom). The Connect Resound project involved a pilot stage in North Yorkshire (England, United Kingdom) followed b... Read More about Connect Resound: Using online technology to deliver music education to remote communities.

Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons (2019)
Journal Article
King, A., Prior, H., & Waddington-Jones, C. (2019). Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons. Music education research, 21(2), 197-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2019.1585791

The provision of instrumental lessons in certain areas of England can be hampered by the geographical position of some schools that are rural in nature, with teachers needing to travel long distances between schools. Internet-based technologies have... Read More about Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons.

Music and Shape (2018)
Book
Leech-Wilkinson, D., & Prior, H. M. (Eds.). (2018). Music and Shape. Oxford University Press

Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music, helping musicians in many genres to rehearse, teach and think about what they do. What makes a concept from vision so invaluable to work in sound? Music & Shape reveals the many ways in which shape... Read More about Music and Shape.