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Dr Beth Rankin Name: Dr Beth Rankin
Sessional Academic
Organisational Area
Faculty of Education and Arts
Department
School of Education VIC - Melbourne
Location
Melbourne
Saint Teresa of Kolkata Building(Bldg.421 - 115B Victoria Parade, Fitzroy VIC 3065)-Level 8-Room8.23C
Biographical Information

DrPH, GCUT,  MAppSc (Research),  GDip Ed (Creative Arts), RN.

Beth has a background in nursing, creative arts education and public health. She has taught at all levels from early childhood settings to higher education. Beth has extensive experience of music pedagogy in Orff Schulwerk, Kodaly, Dalcroze and Music Learning Theory and in Laban Movement Analysis.

Beth has been awarded grants to work with disadvantaged, disengaged and refugee middle years youth using digital photography programs, and inclusive musical theatre programs, as a way of providing opportunities for participation or re-engagement with learning.

Beth’s research interests are in the arts and health and the arts as social justice.

Her masters research looked at the impact of music and movement on the health of new parents and their babies. She produced a CD of music, A New Song to Sing, which is a compilation of songs and dances designed to support family bonding and participation. Her doctoral thesis was an observational study of an arts and health art installation.

Other research includes a study of university students with a diagnosed learning disability and the impact of the disability on their learning and on their families.

 

Publications

Journal Articles

Buchan, S., & Rankin, B. (2013). “It was the right beat!” - Children’s need for immediately playable music. (in review.) 

Varney, H., Van Lith, T., Rumbold, E. J., Morris, D., Fegan, S., Rankin, B., O'Bryen Horsford, R., Brophy-Dixon, J. (2013). Losing, and finding, spaces to learn in the university. Emotion, Space and Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2013.03.003 

Rankin, Beth. (2009). Nurturing Through Music. Sound Ideas, 8 (1).

Robinson, Priscilla., McIver, Shane., Rumbold, Jean., Rankin, Beth., Hawkins, Renee., Colliver, Barbara., & Rumbold, Bruce. (2008). OddSocks at the Melbourne Fringe Festival: A methods paper for using an arts installation in promoting public health. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 32(3), 250-253. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00224.x

Rankin, Beth. (2001). Marimba Music Building Social and Cultural Capital New Era in Education, 82(1), 22-24.

Book Chapters

Rankin, B. (2013). Arts-based research in music education. In K. Hartwig (Ed.), Research methodologies in music education. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars.

Rankin, B. (2005). Music in Hospitals: A Person Journey. Hong Kong: Art in Hospital 

CD

Rankin, B. (1998). A New Song To Sing. A New Song To Sing [CD]. Melbourne: Beth Rankin.

Thesis

Rankin, B. (2014). OddSocks:  A Participant Observer Study of an Arts and Health Project. Doctor of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne.  

Rankin, B. (2003). The Therapeutic Effects of Music and Dance on the Health of New Mothers. Master Applied Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne.  

Interests

Arts, Health

Arts-based research

Human Rights

Music Education

Photography as Learning

Learning Disablities

Equity and Social Justice

Experience

Grants

Rankin, B. (2011). Seeing the World Beyond (Vol. 16,000). Shapparton: HEEPP.

Rankin, B. (2011). Shepp Shed (Vol. 80,000). Shepparton: HEPPP.

Rankin, B. (2010). Visible Invisible (Vol. $8,000). Shepparton: Cutting Edge Brokerage.

Conference Presentations

2013

May ANZARME Melbourne 

January Tui Tuitia Hamilton University New Zealand

2012

November ANZARME Norfolk Island

October CC3 Griffith University Gold Coast

Professional Memberships

ACU Committees

2014 Open Day Committee

2013 Open Day Committee

Member Associations

ANZARME Publications Officer (Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education)

WEF General member (World Education Fellowship)

VOSA Life Member (Victorian Orff Schulwerk Association)

ISME (International Society for Music Education)

 

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