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This three-year ARC funded project addresses the challenges that gender exclusive practices in jazz and improvised music pose to the diversity of the Australian music industry.

Greater diversity in Australian jazz and improvised music (AJ&I) through improved career pathways for female-identifying and gender non-conforming musicians will be promoted through new knowledge about historical and contemporary practices of in/exclusion and their effects on participation in the sector.

Identifying individual, collective and institutional facilitators and constraints on gendered participation will inform research, policy, artistic and educational practice to benefit the sector’s sustainable growth. The research aims to address:

1. What are current and historic practices of inclusion, exclusion and participation of FI & GNC musicians’ in the AJ&I industry?
2. What beliefs and values underpin practices of inclusion, exclusion and participation of FI & GNC musicians’ in the AJ&I industry?
3. What are the facilitators and constraints on FI & GNC musicians’ career development?
4. What recommendations can be made for further research, policy and practice to effect institutional and sector change?