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Haphazard pathways: Students’ perceptions of their routes to music study in higher education in the United Kingdom

Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2018)
Haphazard pathways: Students’ perceptions of their routes to music study in higher education in the United Kingdom. Journal of Popular Music Education, 2(3), 199-216. doi:10.1386/jpme.2.3.199_1
This article reports on a qualitative study, which explored perceptions of fourteen first-year undergraduate music students in the United Kingdom regarding their secondary sch...

Improving the Music Listening Experiences of Cochlear Implant Users: Practical Ideas for Children and Adults

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2009, November)
Improving the Music Listening Experiences of Cochlear Implant Users: Practical Ideas for Children and Adults. Presented at British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (Annual Conference
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The Impact of Cochlear Implants on Musical Experience

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Moir, Z., & Overy, K. (2013)
The Impact of Cochlear Implants on Musical Experience. In V. Bates, A. Bleakley, & S. Goodman (Eds.), Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities, 246-263. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge
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A Good Pair of Ears: Conceiving of and developing aural skills in popular music education

Book Chapter
Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2021)
A Good Pair of Ears: Conceiving of and developing aural skills in popular music education. In K. D. Cleland, & P. Fleet (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy: Before, In and Beyond Higher Education. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276392-18
When musicians and music educators consider aural training, many of us have a tendency to imagine students transcribing melodic dictation, identifying chord progressions, inte...

Low-latency Networked Music Collaborations: Does ‘good enough’ do enough good?

Journal Article
Dylan Smith, G., Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Davies, G. (2020)
Low-latency Networked Music Collaborations: Does ‘good enough’ do enough good?. Journal of Network Music and Arts, 2(1),
LoLa is a cutting-edge technology that enables low latency, real-time collaborations across vast distances using high-bandwidth, low-jitter networks. It has the capacity to tr...

Music and Rhyme for Children and Teenagers with Cochlear Implants

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Plant, G. (2008, March)
Music and Rhyme for Children and Teenagers with Cochlear Implants. Paper presented at Assessment, Paediatric Habilitation, and Adult Rehabilitation
No abstract available.

Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2020, August)
Piloting ‘Creative Musicianship’ in Scotland: An analysis of the experiences of students and teachers. Paper presented at International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki
Secondary music courses in Scotland currently do not provide applicants with the necessary knowledge, understanding or skillsets to be able to engage with music study at HE. B...

Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. (2019, November)
Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York
This presentation will comprise three related sections, outlining recent and imminent projects. We will begin by discussing work that the authors have recently undertaken in w...

The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy

Journal Article
Donn, R., Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2024)
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy. Music Education Research, 26(1), 58-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2309204
This article, which is intended as a contribution to wider conversations around music literacy, explores current conceptions of music literacy within the UK, using the area of...

Towards a Critical Consideration of Higher Popular Music Education: 5 Questions and some proposed answers

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2018, June)
Towards a Critical Consideration of Higher Popular Music Education: 5 Questions and some proposed answers. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Tennessee, USA
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A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia

2019 - date
The aim of my practice-based PhD is to determine whether tapping into one’s synaesthesia can assist in the music composition/production proce...
Corin Anderson | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Burton

Is there a space of performativity which is neither and/or both masculine or feminine?

2023 - date
Mx Ashley Stein | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

An Exploration of Live Sound Engineering in Edinburgh

2023 - date
Jamie McLardy | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

e(co): a study of shared creative activity in environment

2021 - date
Harry Docherty | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

A discourse analytic study of violence on twitter (provisional)

2019 - date
Amy King | Director of Studies: Dr Mabel Victoria | Second Supervisor: Dr Arin Keeble

Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation

2018 - 2021
James Hind | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

Tuned in or dropped out? The short life, influence and curious death of the London Drury Lane Arts Lab, as evidenced by the Jim Haynes Living Archives

2018 - date
Martin Belk | Director of Studies: Prof Jane Ali-Knight | Second Supervisor: Dr Kirstie Jamieson

Formal Music Curricula, Identity Formation and Group Consciousness in Primary and Secondary School Students

2022 - date
Agnese Di Domenico | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Anne Che

Freedom from Work: Unpaid Labor and Unearned Hierarchies Within Art and Music

2022 - date
Elizabeth Veldon | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim

Music For Life: Improving Access to Music Tuition for Mature Students; The Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland

2023 - date
Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Mr Bryden Stillie

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Dr Zack Moir Elected to the Board of Directors of the Prestigious Association for Popular Music Education

26 June 2019
Dr Zack Moir from Music has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education, which is an international organisation with a mission to promote and advance...

University Academic Publishes New Edited Volume on Popular Music Education

3 April 2019
Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in music, has just published his new edited volume ’The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices’, which features chapters from three other mem...

University Academics and Students Engage in Live Improvisation Over Networks at Prestigious International Conference

2 April 2019
Can a network performance be defined, planned and executed in 90 minutes? Teams of attendees and remote performers at the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop in Prague were tasked with creatin...

Music students take on trans-atlantic music composition project with students in New Jersey

28 January 2019
Zack Moir and Bryden Stillie from music have, in collaboration with Andy Krikun from Bergen Community College in New Jersey, USA, launched an international songwriting/composition project. Each of the...

Edinburgh Napier academic uses personal experience of living with diabetes to inspire composition

3 July 2018
An Edinburgh Napier academic is using his personal experience of living with diabetes to fuel his passion for making music. Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in popular music at the University, was diagnosed wit...

World First for Remote Transatlantic Real-Time Album Recording

19 September 2017
The first notes have been played in a project that will see an album recorded by musicians at opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean - in real-time. In what is believed to be a world first, Dr Paul Ferg...

Lecturer in Music is Editor of Recently 'Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education'

24 January 2017
Dr Zack Moir from music is one of the editors of the recently published 'Routledge Research Handbook of Popular Music Education', which is a new edited volume containing contributions from a wide rang...