Research and engagement PoCCEE

Staff in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance have been at the forefront of music research in Australia for more than fifty years. Our expertise lies in a broad range of areas including composition, creative practice, music technology and music education. We are interested not just in creative practice in music, but also the capacity of these media to interrogate issues of equality, social justice, exclusion and identity.

Our focus on the investigation of the Pedagogies of Creativity, Collaboration, Expertise and Enterprise (PoCCEE) underpins and informs our work in teaching and research. Our research is both global and national in outlook.

What we do

Pillars of PoCCEE: The school’s vision and focus across teaching and research.

  • Creative citizenship

    Seeing creative practice as existing in larger contexts, including the role of music, performance practice and careers in addressing global challenges and creating social change at local through global levels.

  • Creative health

    Educating students to attend to their own and others health and wellbeing, and understanding and practising music and performance in ways that sustain and improve the health and wellbeing of all communities with which we work.

  • Public pedagogies

    Introducing students to the role of art music and performance  (both in and beyond the classroom) in engaging with the global challenges of our times and the ways in which arts practice can critique, educate, and inform.

  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion

    Promoting EDI and bringing research expertise in this area into our curriculum and teaching and learning, professional industry practice and larger community engagement.

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Research and partnerships

Research events

The Music Graduate Research Program at Monash offers one of the most comprehensive graduate research programs in the field of music and artistic research in Australia.

Find out more about upcoming research seminars and related events.

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2026 Music Event Brochure

We are delighted to present the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance’s 2026 Concerts and Events Program.
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Monash Sessions albums launch

Congratulations to Paul Williamson, Rob Burke and the Monash Music team on the successful launch of two Monash Sessions albums.
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