Gillian Howell

Gillian Howell is Dean’s Research Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, where she leads a portfolio of research examining the contributions of participatory music and arts to post-war peace and reconciliation. An award-winning community music leader and educator, she has worked in post-conflict music development projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste, and led participatory composition projects with symphony orchestras, recently-arrived child migrants, and First Peoples in Australia.

Gillian is Co-Chair of the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Commission. She lives and works on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.