Dave Camlin

Dr Dave Camlin BA (Hons), PGCE, DProf is an award-winning musician from Cumbria (UK) whose practice spans performance, composition, teaching, community music and research. He lectures in music education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laan Conservatoire in London. His research interests include: community music, especially group singing; music, health and wellbeing; musician education. He has pioneered the use of Sensemaker® ‘distributed ethnography’ as a research method for understanding artistic and cultural experiences. His recent book Music Making and Civic Imagination (Intellect, 2023) explores the potential of musicing as both a complex adaptive system (CAS) and a global resource for sustainability.

Contact: Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2BS, UK; Trinity Laban, King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval College Greenwich, London, SE10 9JF, UK.