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Assoc Prof Melissa Forbes

Assoc Prof Melissa Forbes
Name Melissa Forbes
Position Associate Professor (Contemporary Singing-Music)
Section School of Creative Arts
Office A242
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1153
Extension 1153
Email
Qualifications BA Qld , BMusic Griffith , BA(Hons) Qld , LLB(Hons) Qld , PhD QldConservatorium
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/81155/a-pr-melissa-forbes
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Biography

Melissa is a music practitioner-researcher with a practice background in jazz performance, singing voice pedagogy, and community music. Her research explores the lived experience of music-making and singing across a broad range of contexts. Adopting lenses from disciplines such as positive psychology, embodied cognition, and positive leadership, Melissa uses qualitative research methods to position music and singing as positive health and wellbeing practices from which all can benefit. She is a Churchill Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

Research Career


  • Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 130299 )
  • Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified ( 190499 )
  • Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified ( 179999 )
  • Music not elsewhere classified ( 360399 )
  • Other Psychology not elsewhere classified ( 529999 )
  • Other Psychology ( 529900 )
  • Music ( 360300 )
  • Music Cognition ( 360301 )
  • Music Performance ( 360304 )
  • Music Education ( 360303 )
  • Music Composition And Improvisation ( 360302 )

singing, health and wellbeing
jazz singing and improvisation
contemporary commercial music singing voice pedagogy
collaborative learning
higher music education
music leadership


Australian National Association for Teachers of Singing (ANATS)
Australian Music and Psychology Society (AMPS)
Society for Education and Music Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM)
Somatic Voicework ™ The LoVetri Method Teachers’ Association
Churchill Fellows Association of Queensland Inc


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

Teaching


14 Years


HDR Coordinator, School of Creative Arts
Academic Team Leader, School of Creative Arts

Supervision


  • Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 130299 )
  • Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified ( 190499 )
  • Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified ( 179999 )
  • Music not elsewhere classified ( 360399 )
  • Other Psychology not elsewhere classified ( 529999 )
  • Other Psychology ( 529900 )
  • Music ( 360300 )
  • Music Cognition ( 360301 )
  • Music Performance ( 360304 )
  • Music Education ( 360303 )
  • Music Composition And Improvisation ( 360302 )