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Kathryn Marsh
Kathryn Marsh is Emeritus Professor of music education at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. Her research interests include children’s musical play, cultural diversity in music education, and the role of music in the lives of refugee and immigrant children. She has written numerous scholarly publications including her award-winning book The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Songs and Games, published by Oxford University Press. A former editor of Research Studies in Music Education, she is a current or recent member of the editorial boards of Psychology of Music, International Journal of Play, International Journal of Music Education and British Journal of Music Education. She is frequently invited to present results of her research internationally and her field recordings from her cross-cultural research into musical play are held as a special collection in the British Library. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; the University of London and the University of Washington.