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 the INTO Graduate Diploma in Music, Newcastle University
  • External examiner for MMus Popular Music Performance, Academy of Music and Sound
  • 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
  • 'Featured Thinker' - LILA Interactions (Indian Magazine Site)
  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The Scotsman
  • Radio Interview for 'IDDM' (Composition) - BBC Radio Scotland
  • National TV Coverage for World's First Real-Time Transatlantic Interactive Recording Session - ITV News
  • National Newspaper Coverage for Transatlantic Interactive Music Making Project - The Hearld

 

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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Communicative Improvisation: A practical Workshop

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2014, February)
Communicative Improvisation: A practical Workshop. Presented at Invited practical workshop
No abstract available.

Improving Access to Musical Activity for Young People

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2014, January)
Improving Access to Musical Activity for Young People. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture
No abstract available.

The Impact of Cochlear Implants on Musical Experience

Book
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
No abstract available.

Analysing, Evaluating, and Assessing Musical Improvisation

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., MacDonald, R., Moran, N., & Edwards, M. (2013, July)
Analysing, Evaluating, and Assessing Musical Improvisation. Presented at International Conference on Analysing Popular Music
No abstract available.

Start With What You Know: Popular Music Analysis for First Year Undergraduate Students

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., Moran, N., & Worth, R. (2013, July)
Start With What You Know: Popular Music Analysis for First Year Undergraduate Students. Paper presented at International Conference of Analysing Popular Music
No abstract available.

The Fundamentals of Music Theory (MOOC)

Digital Artefact
Moir, Z., Worth, R., Moran, N., Edwards, M., & Kitchen, J. (2013)
The Fundamentals of Music Theory (MOOC
This course will introduce students to the theory of music, providing them with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, ...

Guided Experience: Cochlear Implants and Music

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2013, February)
Guided Experience: Cochlear Implants and Music. Presented at Guided Experience Workshop
No abstract available.

The Impact of Health on Musical Experience in Post-War Britain: Cochlear Implant USers

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2012, May)
The Impact of Health on Musical Experience in Post-War Britain: Cochlear Implant USers. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture (Keynote
No abstract available.

Deacon

Exhibition / Performance
Moir, Z. Deacon. 25 June 2011. (Unpublished)

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Moir, Z. Deacon. 25 June 2011. (Unpublished
A performance of an original 'musical' for Cochlear Implant users.

Composing Music for Adult Cochlear Implant Users: Objectives and Approaches

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., Osborne, N., & Overy, K. (2011, May)
Composing Music for Adult Cochlear Implant Users: Objectives and Approaches. Paper presented at Sixth International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Conference
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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