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Rebecca Berkley, Dr

Associate Professor in Music Education at University of Reading

Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading. Her areas of interest are classroom musicianship, choral education, musical leadership and musical cognition. She is the co-director of the Postgraduate Taught Programmes at the Institute of Education. She teaches music education on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including Initial Teacher Education, and is a doctoral supervisor. Her current research projects focus on teaching classroom musicianship to general primary teachers, promoting inclusive teacher education for all colleagues. Rebecca is Artistic Director of Universal Voices, a free community choir for children at the University of Reading which she leads with a volunteer team of students.

Rebecca Berkley's contributions

Artful Leadership

15 May 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Artful Leadership – transforming leadership through playful and artistic thinking and doing Dedicated to research with and by leaders shaping the educational landscape, this webinar emphasises...

Upcoming eventVirtual

Creative Advocacy

13 Mar 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Creative Advocacy – using arts based education research to engage new audiences and give voice to participants This webinar discusses how the arts can be used to communicate powerful ideas in...

Upcoming eventVirtual

The Creative Educator

23 Jan 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Creative Educator – How educators use the arts to enrich teaching practices and transform learning environments This webinar introduces arts based education research methodologies and...

Upcoming eventVirtual

‘Learning for All’

BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...

Ongoing project

Arts Based Educational Research

Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) uses ideas, methods, techniques, and processes from the arts to help understand and improve education.

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