Director – Education and Research
B.Mus (ANU), Grad Dip Ed (UC), MEd (Deakin), PhD (Melbourne)
Anita is currently Associate Professor of Music and Arts Education at the University of Canberra and has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Australian National University.
She is currently involved in a broad range of research projects. These include examining the capacity, adaption and application of music education for early childhood and primary generalist teachers, researching alternate music education delivery for disadvantaged children in regional communities and the impact of music education in standardized test scores.
Anita is currently Assistant Professor of Music and Arts Education at the University of Canberra and has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Australian National University. She is currently involved in a broad range of research projects. These include examining the capacity, adaption and application of music education for early childhood and primary generalist teachers, researching alternate music education delivery for disadvantaged children in regional communities and the impact of music education in standardized test scores. In 2014 Anita was involved with the TED.com network through two project; as author of a short animated film for TED Ed and as a presenter at TEDx Canberra. Both of these project have been very well received with the TED Ed film will have reached 1 million views by the end of 2014.
Her doctoral study, through the University of Melbourne, focused on neuroscience and music education and is titled Bigger, Better Brains: Neuroscience, music education and the pre-service early childhood and primary (elementary) generalist teacher. Anita was awarded the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Early Career Researcher Excellence Award and the UC Dean’s Award for Excellence in 2009 for her research into the curriculum redesign and the NSW Teacher’s Guild Research Award in 2005 for her research into boys music education.
Anita is a member of the Music Australia Advisory Group and the Music Trust Research Panel.
