Please mind the gap: reflecting on gender inequality in music higher education, one year on from Slow Train Coming

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Acknowledgements

With special thanks to Erin Johnson-Williams and Chiying Lam at the Centre for Music Education and Social Justice at the University of Southampton, who convened the conference Slow Train Coming: One Year On, and to Anna Bull and Vick Bain, who contributed to the panel discussion on gender inequality.

Notes

1 Consider, for example, the implicit denunciation in Ian Pace’s (2023) comment about how the movement ‘from academic music study to music technology has added a gendered dimension to the shift, as the latter is overwhelmingly dominated by male students, while the former was more evenly matched’ (n.p.).

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Elizabeth H. MacGregor

Elizabeth MacGregor is the Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She has previously held posts with the Birmingham Music Education Research Group and the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre, and has been supervising undergraduate music students at the University of Cambridge since 2019. Her research into vulnerability, inclusion, and care in classroom music education has most recently been published in Research Studies in Music Education and Philosophy of Music Education Review. She also holds a Career Development Fellowship from the British Educational Research Association.