Pamela Burnard is a professor of Arts, Creativities, and Education at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds degrees in Music Performance, Music Education, Education, and Philosophy. Her primary research interests include the study of diverse and variegated creativities, the nexus of education, cultural and creative industries, and digital learning cultures and innovative practices, for which she is internationally recognized. She is convenor of the Creativities in Intercultural Arts Network (CIAN), the British Education Research Association Creativities in Education SIG, and Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures (BIBAC) International Biennial Conference (http://www.bibac.org). Her recent books include Musical Creativities in Practice (OUP), Teaching Music Creatively (Routledge), Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education (Ashgate), Activating Diverse Creativities in Higher Music Education (Bloomsbury), and Bourdieu and the Sociology of Music Education (Ashgate).

Valerie Ross is an accomplished composer and researcher with compositional awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Commonwealth Foundation, and Japan Foundation. Her creative portfolio ranges from small intercultural ensemble pieces to full-evening ↵music-dance theatre productions. Valerie has received interdisciplinary research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, Malaysia, and heads the Music Therapy, Rehabilitation, and Wellness Research Group at Universiti Teknology MARA. Recent book chapters and articles include ‘Framework for Intercultural Music Composition Research’ (Routledge, 2016), ‘Music intervention in eye—motion tracking of children with autism (Academic Journal of Science, 2015) and ‘Violinists playing with and without music notation during performance: Investigating hemispheric brainwave activity’ (Springer, 2014). Professor Ross is the director of the Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College, University of Cambridge (http://www.cimacc.org).

Laura Hassler was born and raised in New York. From an early age, she was active in US civil rights and peace movements. She studied cultural anthropology and music, then worked for social change organizations in the United States and Europe. After moving ↵to the Netherlands in 1977, she built a career in music. In 1999, Laura mobilized her large network of socially conscious musicians to found Musicians without Borders. Today, still drawing on this ever-broadening network, Musicians without Borders is one of the world’s pioneers in using music to bridge divides, build community, and heal the wounds of war.

Lis Murphy is an international performer, trainer, and music facilitator, and the founder and creative director of Music Action International (MAI), specializing in collaborative and creative music programmes to reduce the traumatic effects of war, torture, and armed conflict. Lis has delivered training programmes with traumatized children and adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Palestine, and in Northern Ireland. Through MAI, she directs several initiatives supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, including work with torture survivors, young refugees separated from their families, and young children in schools. For more information visit Music Action International (http://www.musicaction.org).