User:JonPowles

I'm a music and education academic by background, with a Doctorate from the University of Oxford, on analytical issues in the Music of Igor Stravinsky. I spent fifteen years teaching and researching music at universities in the UK and Australia, including the University of Oxford, Liverpool Hope University, and the Australian National University, but have moved into management of education, learning and teaching, and organizational development. I am currently an Associate Professor and Director of Teaching and Learning at the University of Canberra

My areas of academic music speciality are theory and analysis, particularly of twentieth-century music; musical semiotics; the philosophy of musical meaning; and the music of Igor Stravinsky. But my primary research interests in the last decade are educational: flexible teaching and learning, social constructivist learning, learning technology, and social media.

As an active amateur astronomer, I make observations of variable star brightness which I submit to the AAVSO and other organisations. I am also active in amateur astronomical spectroscopy.

I have original research publications in the fields of music, education, and astronomy.

I am an active composer and conductor. My most recent premiere was Strands for Choir and Electronics, performed at the National Library of Australia by the choir of the Australian National University in October 2010.

Other than that I:


 * conducted the university choir (and sometime orchestra), | SCUNA from 2001-2012
 * have an informed amateur in interest in astronomy, and am an active astronomer, spectroscopist and variable star observer.
 * play chess and Diplomacy enthusiastically and relatively competitively.
 * enjoy SCUBA diving and rugby football.

Pages to which I have contributed

 * Music
 * Rite of Spring
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Music History


 * Education
 * Social constructivism


 * Astronomy
 * RR Centauri
 * NGC 2516
 * Iota Librae
 * Nova Centauri 2013
 * Nova Delphini 2013
 * UW Canis Majoris