Teaching and Research 

 

Kirsty is currently completing a PhD at Birmingham City University where she is researching composing in secondary school education under the supervision of professor Martin Fautley and Janet Hoskyns. If you are a secondary music teacher with expereince of KS4 composing please click here.

 Kirsty also runs the PGCE Primary and Early Years teacher training in music and CPD days. If you would like to book a CPD session through Music Ecuation Solutions, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

She is the creative leader of Birmingham Conservatoire's 'Young Composers Project' and has delivered composing workshops on behalf of organisations such as THSH Birmingham, CBSO, Birmingham Music Service, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group,  Sound and Music, and Stratford Literary Festival. She is currently teaching Theory and Composition at Birmingham Conservatoire's Junior Conservatoire. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of published written and research work: 

 

• The Independent: A-level music making 'lottery' (December 2015) 
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/a-level-music-marking-lottery-stops-young-composers-getting-top-grades-study-warns-a6786231.html
   

• BASCA: ‘Clipping their wings’ - How inconsistent marking of composing at AS and A-level impacts teachers’ jobs, and limits students’ creativity (December 2015)
   

• ISM: Music A-level composing - research into teacher attitudes (November 2015):

http://www.ism.org/blog/article/composing-research-teacher-attitudes

 

• The Sampler: "Feeling Like a Fraud" (April 2015):

http://read.thesampler.org/2015/04/21/kirsty-devaney-on-feeling-like-a-fraud/

 

• CSPACE blog: 6 links between writing and composing (May 2015):

http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/education/2015/05/25/6-links-between-research-and-composing/

 

• CSPACE blog: Listen Imagine Compose (July 2015):

http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/education/2015/07/01/listen-imagine-compose/