Welcome to the APME Liverpool 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. We encourage you to browse the various presentations and to create a custom schedule. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community July 22–24, 2025!
his presentation introduces a four-step framework for hybridising metal and Iranian classical music as a model for inclusive, student-centred music education. It explores the facilitator’s role in guiding students through cross-genre composition, fostering cultural diversity and creativity. The session invites feedback on implementing this approach in diverse educational contexts.
Songwriting camps, structured for intensive collaboration, have influenced higher education by highlighting essential creative skills. This paper, based on the Songwriting Camps in the 21st Century (SC21) project, examines how these camps teach interpersonal dynamics, adaptability, and teamwork, preparing students for professional songwriting through immersive, industry-aligned educational experiences.
Teaching students to think independently requires a reexamination of ingrained cultural biases. This demonstration will discuss some of the ways in which curricular structures, creative projects, and collaborative experiences in popular music education may be designed to interrupt the feedback loop of social normalization and foster independent artistic thinking.
In teaching performance, we rely on conceptual analysis to assess and feedback on performance quality. But audiences experience performance as something far more immediate and visceral. In this talk, I discuss a method for measuring audience experience as a series of visceral responses. But is this valid or hopelessly flawed?
The PLR Toolkit: Practice-led Research and Inclusivity in Postgraduate Music Industry Education presents results from the introduction of PLR to a postgraduate MA in Music Industry HE which pushes the boundaries and conventions of academic research and extends the possibilities for future practitioner researchers, creating an inclusive and diverse learning space and a vital toolkit which connects students to music industry employment opportunities early on in their careers,
