Zack Moir
Zack Moir

Dr Zack Moir BA MMus PhD PGCAP PFHEA

Professor

 0131 455 2337

  Z.Moir@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Prof Zack Moir is Professor of Music and School Academic Lead for Curriculum Design (School of Arts and Creative Industries). He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Zack’s research interests are in popular music in higher education, music education for social justice, and composition/improvisation pedagogies. Zack is the lead editor of ‘The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspective and Practices’ (2019), an editor of ‘The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education’ (2017), and an editor of ‘Action Based Approaches in Popular Music Education (2021).

Zack is the Chair of the International Society for Music Education's Popular Music Special Interest Group and is on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education. Zack is also an active composer/musician. Recent compositions include pieces for saxophone and tape, solo cello, and a reactive generative sound art installation for the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Conference Organiser - Continental Drift: A century of jazz on record
  • Conference Organiser - Continental Drift: 50 Years of Jazz from Europe

 

Editorial Activity

  • Editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices
  • Editor of the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education
  • Journal of Popular Music Education - Editorial Board Member

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External examiner for MMus Popular Music , Royal Northern College of Music
  • External examiner for MMus Popular Music Performance, Academy of Music and Sound
  • External Examiner for the INTO Graduate Diploma in Music, Newcastle University
  • External Examiner for MMus Popular Music Performance, University of West London

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • We Are NOT Neutral: A Freirian Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education (January 2020)
  • Stillie, B & Moir, Z. (2019) The development of new Scottish music qualifications. Presented to City of Edinburgh Council Instrumental Music Service. 8th January 2019.
  • Moir, Z. & Stillie, B. (2019) Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design. Presented to City of Edinburgh Council Instrumental Music Service. 7th January 2014

 

Media Activity

  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The National
  • Radio Interview for 'IDDM' (Composition) - BBC Radio Scotland
  • 'Featured Thinker' - LILA Interactions (Indian Magazine Site)
  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The Scotsman
  • National Newspaper Coverage for Transatlantic Interactive Music Making Project - The Hearld
  • National TV Coverage for World's First Real-Time Transatlantic Interactive Recording Session - ITV News

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Association for Popular Music Education - Elected Member of the Board of Directors
  • Association for Popular Music Education (Member)
  • Art of Record Production (Member)

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • 'Your Feedback is Important to Us' - Interactive Sound Art Installation at Edinburgh International Science Festival

 

Reviewing

  • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
  • Journal of Music, Technology & Education (Book Reviewing)
  • Journal of Popular Music Education (Reviewer and Editorial Board Member)
  • Journal of the Art of Record Production (Reviewer)

 

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Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access.

Presentation / Conference
Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2017, February)
Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Music Research Seminar Series
The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in form...

Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2017, February)
Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Innovations in Teaching and Supporting Learning Teaching Fellows Conference
The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in form...

Haphazard Pathways to Higher Popular Music Education in the UK

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, February)
Haphazard Pathways to Higher Popular Music Education in the UK. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows Conference, Edinburgh
No abstract available.

Considering the Value of Popular Music Education.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, January)
Considering the Value of Popular Music Education. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture
No abstract available.

Popular Music Education (R)evolution

Book
Smith, G. D., Moir, Z., Brennan, M., Rambarran, S., & Kirkman, P. (2017)
Popular Music Education (R)evolution. In G. Dylan Smith, Z. Moir, M. Brennan, S. Rambarran, & P. Kirkman (Eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music EducationOxon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge
No abstract available.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education

Book
G. Dylan Smith, Z. Moir, M. Brennan, S. Rambarran, & P. Kirkman (Eds.), (2017)
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education
Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, po...

Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry

Book Chapter
Moir, Z. (2017)
Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry. In R. Mantie, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.9
Many young people are involved in music making activities that may be considered as “leisure,” such as playing in bands, making recordings, or live performance. Music making, ...

Jamming in the 3rd Room.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2016, December)
Jamming in the 3rd Room. Paper presented at Art of Record Production, Aalborg, Denmark
No abstract available.

Contemporary Music Education: The Importance of Creativity

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, November)
Contemporary Music Education: The Importance of Creativity. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
No abstract available.

Routes To Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2016, July)
Routes To Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design. Paper presented at International Society of Music Educators World Conference, Glasgow, UK
No abstract available.

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Devolved Researcher Award (£1680)
  • Principal's Teaching Award Scheme (£8777)
  • Higher Education Academy Workshop and Seminar Grant (£750)

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