Dr Eugene Seow

I recently began the online, part-time MA Education Leadership at UWE Bristol, studying from Singapore. We are currently working through the opening Personal Leadership module, and three weeks in, I have already encountered an idea that has complicated one of the assumptions I brought into the programme. One reason I enrolled was that I could see fairly clearly where the holes were. I have spent years developing as an educator, musician and researcher, and more recently across curriculum,...

Have you ever been so obsessed with something that you threw everything else aside to achieve a goal? That has been me with academia. Indeed, the past few months have been very scholarly. Anyone who has followed my recent work will probably have noticed how academically intensive the past few months have been. I have been publishing, travelling for conferences, presented at others, attended many more online, and somehow found myself speaking across music, education, pedagogy, practice-led...

As my first academic year at LASALLE comes to a close, I find myself reaching a small but meaningful milestone: five peer-reviewed journal articles published! While I am grateful for the number, what matters more is that these articles have begun to make visible a research direction that has been taking shape across teaching, supervision, performance, and writing. The topics differ, but the underlying concern persists: how musicians learn, judge, communicate, and make sense of practice in...