Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a Lecturer in Research and Music Literature at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. For the past two years, she has worked on the ARC funded project, ‘Sound Links: Exploring the dynamics of musical communities in Australia and their potential for informing collaboration with music in schools’. She has also worked as a sessional Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and as a freelance conductor has worked with ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. She has published widely on issues relating to community music, women conductors, peer-learning in conducting and feminist pedagogy, and is currently editing two books on music research and music autoethnography. She is also on the editorial board for the International Journal of Community Music.