Pamela Burnard

Creativities in Practice: Shaping the teaching and learning of music creatively

Pamela Burnard is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. 

Pamela's career has been woven from a combination of experiences as a musician, performer, educator, academic and researcher in Australia, USA and England from where she holds degrees in Music Performance, Music Education and Education.

Her primary interest is creativity research. She is internationally known for her work in the areas of creative learning and teaching, musical creativity/ies, assessing creativity and the sociology of music education.

She publishes widely and has delivered keynote addresses at international gatherings (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Cyprus, France, Spain, Ireland, and in the UK). She is a Visiting Scholar/Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2009-), Hong Kong Institute of Education, China (2008-); Örebro University (2007-); and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2006-). She acts as mentor for the Welsh Educational Research Network (WERN).

Dr Burnard was a keynote speaker at the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) National Conference in July 2011.