Mr Tim Palmer

Mr Tim Palmer

Research, Scholarship and Creative PracticeOther ActivitiesResearch CV

Journal Articles:

Other Scholarly outputs

  • Book chapter Palmer, T. (2013) ‘Assessing Leadership Skills in the Conservatoire’, in Stakelum, M. (ed.) Developing the Musician. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 265–290.
  • Book chapter Palmer, T. (2016) ‘Deconstructing and Re-imagining Repertoire in Music Teacher Training’, in Burnard, P. and Haddon, E. (eds) Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp. 132–149.
  • Book chapter Palmer, T. (2020a) ‘Music Technology and the Loop Sampler’, in Finney, J., Philpott, C., and Spruce, G. (eds) Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music: Fifty Years of Sound & Silence. Routledge.
  • Book chapter Palmer, T. (2020b) ‘The One-Minute Solo’, in Finney, J., Philpott, C., and Spruce, G. (eds) Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music: Fifty Years of Sound and Silence. Routledge.
  • Book chapter Palmer, T. (2022) ‘Exploring Improvising’, in Philpott, C. and Cooke, C. (eds) A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School. 2nd edn. Routledge.
  • Book chapter Palmer, T., Spruce, G. and Evans, J. (2011) ‘Collaborative Music Teaching and Learning with Partners Beyond the School’, in Beach, N., Evans, J., and Spruce, G. (eds) Making music in the primary school : whole class instrumental and vocal teaching. Routledge, pp. 120–128.

Creative Practice

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Other Activities

External Examiner role
  • Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – BEd (2019)
  • Royal College of Music – BA Music Education (2021)
  • Royal College of Music – MEd Music Education (short term cover) (2022)
REF Submissions
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Membership of regional, national or international research committees
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CPD related to sector developments in research policy/practice
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2020)
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2021)
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2022)
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2023)
Other examples of engagement with research or advanced scholarship
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2020)
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2021)
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2022)
  • Director: PG Research in Music Education Symposium – Trinity Laban Dept of Music Education (2023)
Awards/recognition
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Professional Activities
  • Board Member – Sound Sense (2017 – 2022)
  • Representative Member – Music Education Council (2020 – 2022)
Research projects conducted with external partners
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Consultancy projects informing policy making
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Other consultancy work
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Research funding
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Tim Palmer: Conference Presentations (March 2024)

Palmer, T. (2023) ‘“Fun Music with my Friends”: Musicking-as-Play in a Long-Running West End Musical’, in New Directions in Music Education: Play in Music Education Across the Lifespan. East Lansing: Michigan State University.

Camlin, Dave; Abrams, Jess; Birch, Catherine; Dowdall, Graham; Palmer, Tim; Tippetts, Ceri. (2022) ‘Training Socially-Engaged Musicians’, in SIMM-posium #7. London: GSMD.

Palmer, T. (2022) ‘The Play-Work of Orchestral Musicians: implications for the conservatoire’, in REACT Symposium: Reflective and critical approaches to the teaching and learning of music performance. Piteå School of Music, Luleå University of Technology.

Palmer, T. (2022) ‘Ontological Drift in the Music Teaching Studio, and the Potential of Play’, in: ‘Voices from the studio – Making practices visible to innovate the future’, in 35th ISME World Conference.

Palmer, T. (2021) ‘(Re)Conceptualising Western Art Music Performance Practices as “Acts of Play”’, in Research in Music Education (RIME). Royal College of Music.

Harris, R., Palmer, T. and Whiteside, I. (2017) ‘Rehabilitation Reimagined: creating music through collaboration’, in ICPA: Innovation in Rehabilitation: Building Better Futures. London.

Palmer, T. and Harris, R. (2018) ‘Citizens in Prison: findings from a student-prisoner composition project’, in The Reflective Conservatoire. Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Palmer, T. (2017) ‘Provocation: Everything that I Do, I Stole’, in ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ Discussing the training and development of artists working in participatory settings. ArtWorks Alliance 18 Jan 2017; Barbican Centre, London.

Palmer, T. and Bunting, P. (2015) ‘Artist – Teacher Identities: an overview of issues in conservatoire partnership secondary music PGCE programmes’, in The Reflective Conservatoire. Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Palmer, T. (2013) ‘Teaching and Assessing Leadership Skills in the Conservatoire’, in Higher Education Academy: Embedding Employability into the Music HE Curriculum. Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.

Palmer, T. and Longden, A. (2013) ‘Deconstructing and Re-imagining Repertoire in Music Teacher Training’, in HEA Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education. York University.

Palmer, T. (2011) ‘Assessing Leadership Skills in the Conservatoire’, in SEMPRE Developing the Musician. University of Reading.

Palmer, T. and Raven, J. (2009) ‘Rock Music Rock Art: learning from a cross-cultural project in a conservatoire setting’, in Palatine: Collaborative Processes in Music Making: Pedagogy and Practice. University of Surrey.