Dr Maria Varvarigou, PhD Maria Varvarigou is a lecturer in Music Education at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. She is the co-author of two books: Active Ageing with Music: supporting wellbeing in the Third and Fourth Ages (2014) published by the IoE University Press

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Maria Varvarigou is a lecturer in Music Education at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. She is the co-author of two books: Active Ageing with Music: supporting wellbeing in the Third and Fourth Ages (2014) published by the IoE University Press; and Contexts for Music learning and participation: developing and sustaining musical possible selves through informal, non-formal and formal practices (2020) published by Palgrave. Maria has a strong and international research profile, including interdisciplinary collaborations. She had a leading role in major music education projects such as the Greater London Authority Music Education Audit, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Music education program, the Music for Life Project and the Ear Playing project. As part of the projects and collaborations, Maria has developed resources for the effective teaching and learning of music for community musicians working with older music learners and for school teachers. Maria has also designed a Pathway on Music Education, Health and Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University where she worked for seven years as Senior Lecturer in Music. Maria has been researching the impact of music making on health and wellbeing across the life course, effective music teaching and learning in higher and professional education and in primary school education, as well as intergenerational music making for many years. She is currently researching service-learning in music education with student-musicians in community settings. Maria is passionate about aural music learning, traditional musics, and group singing.

 

Recent publications

  • Creech, A., Varvarigou, M., and Hallam, S. (2020) Contexts for Music learning and participation: developing and sustaining musical possible selves through informal, non-formal and formal practices. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-48262-6        https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030482619
  • Varvarigou, M. and Creech, A. (2021) ‘Models of Learning’, Routledge Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community across the Lifecourse. A. Creech, D. Hodges and S. Hallam, (Eds), London: Routledge.
  • Creech, A., Varvarigou, M., Lorenzino, L., and Coric, Ana (2021) Ethno Research: Redagogy and Professional development – Final Report. International Centre for Community Music, York St. John’s University. Retrieved from https://www.ethnoresearch.org/publications/
  • Varvarigou, M. (2021) The Uncancellable Programme: Sensory and Inclusive Theatre for disabled children, young people, and their families during and post COVID-19 times. Mary Immaculate College: University of Limerick, for Oily Cart Theatre Company.