Rosie Perkins (née Burt)

Rosie Perkins

Rosie Perkins is a Research Associate in the CPS, where she is project coordinator of Rhythm for Life and researches and teaches widely across music education and psychology. Following her BMus and MA degrees at the University of Sheffield, Rosie completed her PhD at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, in 2011. Her research on the learning cultures of conservatoires won the British Federation of Women Graduates Elen Wynne Vanstone Scholarship in 2010, awarded for academic excellence in doctoral studies.

Rosie's current research interests include musicians' career development, musicians' wellbeing and identity, the learning cultures of higher music education, and the role of music-making in enhancing wellbeing. Rosie sits as a commissioner to the International Society of Music Education’s Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician, is a member of the Dutch research group Lifelong Learning in Music and the Arts, and regularly presents her research at international conferences.

Email: rperkins@rcm.ac.uk

Teaching

  • BMus 2 (Level 5) psychology of music
  • MSc in performance science
  • BMus, MMus, and MSc research supervision

Publications

  • PERKINS R (in press), Exploring the one-to-one context at conservatoires through the lens of ‘learning cultures’: The role of student self-documentation, Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis.
  • PERKINS R (in press), Rethinking ‘career’ for music students: Identity and vision, in D Bennett (ed.), Life in the Real World: How to Make Music Graduates Employable, Common Ground.  
  • BURT-PERKINS R and Williamon A (2011), 'I kind of get lost in it': Experiences of learning to perform music in older adulthood, in A Williamon, D Edwards, and L Bartel (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2011 (pp. 305-310), European Association of Conservatoires (AEC).
  • BURT-PERKINS R (2010), Navigating the conservatoire as an educational space: Looking through the lens of 'learning culture', in M Hannan (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Seminar of the Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician (pp. 29-35), International Society for Music Education.
  • Lebler D, BURT-PERKINS R, & Carey G (2009), What the students bring: Examining the attributes of commencing conservatoire students, International Journal of Music Education, 27, 232-249.
  • BURT-PERKINS R (2009), The learning cultures of performance: applying a cultural theory of learning to conservatoire research, in A Williamon, S Pretty, & R Buck (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2009 (pp. 249-254), European Association of Conservatoires (AEC).
  • Williamon A, Wasley D, BURT-PERKINS R, Ginsborg J, & Hildebrandt W (2009), Profiling musicians' health, wellbeing, and performance, in A Williamon, S Pretty, & R Buck (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2009 (pp. 85-90), European Association of Conservatoires (AEC).
  • BURT-PERKINS R & Mills J (2009), Pitching it right? Selection and learning at a music conservatoire, British Educational Research Journal, 35, 817-835.
  • BURT-PERKINS R & Lebler D (2008), 'Music isn't one island': The balance between depth and breadth for music students in higher education, in M Hannan (ed.), Proceedings of the 17th International Seminar of the Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician (pp. 10-14), International Society for Music Education.
  • BURT-PERKINS R & Mills J (2008), The role of chamber music in learning to perform: a case study, Music Performance Research, 2, 26-35.
  • BURT-PERKINS R (2008), Students at a UK conservatoire of music: working towards a ‘diverse employment portfolio’?, in D Bennett & M Hannan (eds.), Inside, Outside, Downside Up (pp. 49-60), Black Swan Press.
  • BURT R (2007), Preschool children's emotional responses to music: A window into learning in the early years, in K Smithrim & R Upitis (eds.), Listen to Their Voices: Research and Practice in Early Childhood Music (pp. 126-139), Canadian Music Educators’ Association.
  • BURT R & Mills J (2006), Taking the plunge: The hopes and fears of students as they begin music college, British Journal of Music Education, 23, 51-73.
  • BURT R, Oakes L, & Mills J (2006), Working in music: The trombonist, Research Perspectives in Music Education, 10, 27-43.

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