A/Pr Melissa Forbes
| Name | A/Pr Melissa Forbes |
|---|---|
| Email Address | melissa.forbes@unisq.edu.au |
| Job Title | Associate Professor (Contemporary Singing-Music) |
| Qualifications | BA Qld, BMusic Griffith, BA(Hons) Qld, LLB(Hons) Qld, PhD QldConservatorium |
| Department | School of Creative Arts |
| Affiliations | Centre for Heritage and Culture |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2528-9763 |
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Biography
Melissa is a music practitioner-researcher with a practice background in jazz performance, singing voice pedagogy, and community music. Her research explores the lived experience of music-making and singing across a broad range of contexts. Adopting lenses from disciplines such as positive psychology, embodied cognition, and positive leadership, Melissa uses qualitative research methods to position music and singing as positive health and wellbeing practices from which all can benefit. She is a Churchill Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).
Fields of Research
- 360301. Music cognition
- 360302. Music composition and improvisation
- 360303. Music education
- 360304. Music performance
- 360399. Music not elsewhere classified
- 529999. Other psychology not elsewhere classified
Professional Membership
| Professional Membership | Year |
|---|---|
| Australian Music and Psychology Society | |
| Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing | |
| Somatic Voicework (TM) The LoVetri Method Teachers Association | |
| Society for Education and Music Psychology Research (SEMPRE) | |
| European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) | |
| Churchill Fellows Association of Queensland Inc |
BA
Qld
1993
BMusic
Griffith
2004
BA(Hons)
Qld
1995
LLB(Hons)
Qld
1997
PhD
QldConservatorium
2016
Current Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| A qualitative study of shame and perfectionism in pre- and post- operative injured professional singers | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| The experience of mixed voice singing by females in contemporary musical theatre on Broadway | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| Oceanic Jazz: Creative potentials for fusions of jazz with traditional and regional music of Oceania | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Completed Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATE PIANO TEACHERS CREATIVE IDENTITIES AS MUSICIANS AND THEIR TEACHING PRACTICES | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
| 'Deed I do: Narrating expert vocal jazz improvisers' experiences of the piano | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
| The emergence of Australian solo euphonium repertoire | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
| In the room where it happens: Teaching musical theatre and Contemporary and Commercial Music (CCM) singing | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
| Project title | Details | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Churchill Trust Impact Funding | To produce the podcast ‘Leading Notes’ on singing leadership for social connection | 2024 |
| Sing to flourish: Singing solo to thrive in difficult times and beyond | UniSQ Capacity Building Grant - $11,828.21 Professor Celmara Pocock (UniSQ) Dr Amanda Krause (James Cook University) Dr Dave Camlin (Royal College of Music, London) | 2022 |
| Churchill Fellowship | The Dr Dorothea Sandars and Irene Lee Churchill Fellowship to attend the Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah Conservatory and intern with Robert Edwin and Jeanette Lovetri | 2010 |
| Arts Queensland | To record debut album "No More Mondays" | 2005 |