Projects

The projects are underpinned by a chronological narrative of students' HE experience. Start listening to Music and Music Skills address the transition into HE of students from diverse backgrounds; from schools, from FE, as mature students of various ages and profiles. The students present with different entry levels of music literacy and technical knowledge - a major concern nationally -, and these projects seek to research and implement new ways of helping students achieve a technical foundation for their music studies.

I³, Post-Vernacular Musics, Collective Performance, World Musics and Resources for Cultural and Critical Theory address students' core musical learning experiences on practical and theoretical levels.

Sound and Music Therapies in Practice and Working in Music address ways in which students manage the transition from HE into employment.

Exceptionally, the project Distributed Virtual Music Workspaces has a free-standing yet multi-faceted role in this scheme: it aims to deliver a technological resource that will inform and support practical, creative and academic work throughout the CETL, and will therefore plug into various other projects.
For practical reasons, projects will be developed within individual institutions or two or more institutions in partnership, according to their particular focus of excellence and expertise. However, all partners will have input into all projects and be able to benefit from those projects' activities and outcomes.