Bill BakerBill taught music education for 17 years in primary, secondary and college levels of classroom music, as well as being an instrumental strings specialist. His last school teaching appointment was as Director of Music of a large independent school in ictoria, where he was also an assessor for VCAA. Bill's Doctorate focused on the role for professional performing arts organisations as providers of arts education and his research interests are many and varied. Bill is a qualitative researcher with particular use of case studies. Bill has been the Chairperson for the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) Tasmanian Chapter (2007–2010) and in 2009 was the Convenor of the ASME XVII National Conference Musical Understanding. In 2007 Bill was awarded a UTAS Teaching Development Grant to investigate the use of music learning centres in primary and early childhood education with reference to the experiences of pupils, classroom teachers and pre-service teachers (available at: http://www.asme.tas.edu.au/learning_centres/index.html) and in 2009 Bill was awarded a further UTAS Teaching Development Grant extending the study of learning centres across the Arts domain (available at: http://www.asme.tas.edu.au/learning_centres_2/index.html). In 2009 Bill also received a UTAS Teaching Merit Certificate and in 2011 was awarded a UTAS Vice Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. Bill is also presently studying for a degree in Fine Art. Read More Read Less