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| Institutions | University of Roehampton |
Adam Ockelford is a Professor of Music and Director of the Applied Music Research Centre at the University of Roehampton, London. [1] He wrote the official biography of Derek Paravicini entitled "In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini".
Adam Ockelford gained a BMus(hons) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he gained two LRAMs (in the oboe and harpsichord) and won four prizes. [2] He studied for a Diploma in Special Education (Visual Impairment) at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, and earned his PhD in Music from the Goldsmiths College in London.
Adam Ockelford created the zygonic model of music-structural understanding, which was subsequently used to inform the Sounds of Intent framework of musical development. [3]
After leaving college, Ockelford started his career teaching at the Linden Lodge School for the Blind in London. [4] He then worked at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), initially as Music Education Advisor before serving as Director of Education. He now works at the University of Roehampton in London as Director of the Applied Music Research Centre. With his longtime pupil Derek Paravicini, he is a TED Speaker. [5]
Ockelford is the Founder and Trustee of The Amber Trust, a UK-wide charity that supports blind and partially sighted children and young people in their pursuit of music, [6] former Chair of Trustees of Soundabout, a UK-based charity that supports people of all ages with complex needs engage with music, and Founder and Chair of Sounds of Intent Charity. He also serves as Secretary and Trustee of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology research (SEMPRE), an international learned society that holds international conferences, supports research across the world through grants, particularly aimed at young researchers, and publishes three journals, The Psychology of Music, Research Studies in Music Education and Music Science, as well as a series of books on music education and psychology published by Routledge. [7]
In early 2021, Ockelford was made a Freeman of the City of London, by the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. [8] [ better source needed ]
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