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.
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.
Arts, Health
Arts-based research
Human Rights
Music Education
Photography as Learning
Learning Disablities
Equity and Social Justice
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
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)