Andrea Creech, McGill University

Research

community engagement artistic citizenship music higher education diversity

Latest papers

Online Group Music-Making in Community Concert Bands: Perspectives From Conductors and Older Amateur Musicians.
Frontiers in psychology · 2022 · senior author
Creative Collaboration and Collaborative Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review.
Frontiers in psychology · 2021
Measuring the Impacts of Extra-Musical Elements in Guitar Music Playing: A Pilot Study.
Frontiers in psychology · 2020

All 4 publications

Latest funding

Music Care: Music Across the Lifespan
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$44,800
Musicians as Artist Citizens: Community engagement as a transformative pedagogical practice
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$46,677
Élaboration, implantation et évaluation d'une plateforme numérique gamifiée pour aider de jeunes pianistes à acquérir les attitudes posturales inhérentes au jeu pianistique
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$207,706

All 9 grants and awards

4 publications.

01

Online Group Music-Making in Community Concert Bands: Perspectives From Conductors and Older Amateur Musicians.

Barbeau AK, Generale M, Creech A

Frontiers in psychology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.878307 PMID: 35846627

02

Creative Collaboration and Collaborative Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review.

Barrett MS, Creech A, Zhukov K

Frontiers in psychology2021

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713445 PMID: 34434151

03

Measuring the Impacts of Extra-Musical Elements in Guitar Music Playing: A Pilot Study.

Héroux I, Giraldo S, Ramírez R, Dubé F, Creech A, Thouin-Poppe LÉ

Frontiers in psychology2020

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01964 PMID: 32922336

04

Using Music Technology Creatively to Enrich Later-Life: A Literature Review.

Creech A

Frontiers in psychology2019First author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00117 PMID: 30761052

Music Care: Music Across the Lifespan

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Willingham, Lee

Keywords: music; health; leisure; community; identity

$44,800

Musicians as Artist Citizens: Community engagement as a transformative pedagogical practice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Creech, Andrea R.

Keywords: community engagement; artistic citizenship; music; higher education; diversity

$46,677

Élaboration, implantation et évaluation d'une plateforme numérique gamifiée pour aider de jeunes pianistes à acquérir les attitudes posturales inhérentes au jeu pianistique

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dubé, Francis

Keywords: piano; apprentissages posturaux; jeu sérieux numériques; jeunes apprentis musiciens; contexte extrascolaire.

$207,706

Élaboration, implantation et évaluation d'une plateforme numérique gamifiée pour aider de jeunes pianistes à acquérir les attitudes posturales inhérentes au jeu pianistique

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dubé, Francis

Keywords: piano; apprentissages posturaux; jeu sérieux numériques; jeunes apprentis musiciens; contexte extrascolaire.

$61,435

Music training as an innovative approach to the treatment of dyslexia: a two-year experimental study with 8- to 10-year-old children in the province of Québec

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bolduc, Jonathan

Keywords: dyslexia; language; music education; pedagogy; primary education

$323,253

L'interprétation d'une oeuvre musicale par des musiciens experts : mesurer l'impact des éléments extramusicaux sur l'expressivité du jeu

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Héroux, Isabelle

Keywords: psychologie de la musique; performance practice; interprétation musicale; expressivité du jeu instrumental

$85,991

Mapping the musical life-course: advancing theoretical frameworks and methodologies for understanding emergent affordances, challenges, and constraints across the musical lifecourse

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Creech, Andrea R.

Keywords: lifecourse; music; agency; quality of life; sense of coherence

$25,000

Creative later-life in a digital age: mobilizing music and creative technologies for inclusive later-life musical learning and participation, creative expression, digital literacy, and quality of life

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Creech, Andrea R.

Keywords: music; creative; technology; ageing; intergenerational; action research; community; wellbeing; digital literacy; expression

$200,000

Music in Community

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Creech, Andrea R

Keywords: music, community, social development, inclusion, aging, extra-curricular, non-formal, creativity, resilience, wellbeing, lifelong learning, critical pedagogy

$510,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Audrey-Kristel Barbeau

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2022

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: community engagement Dear Professor Creech, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Online Group Music-Making in Community Concert Bands: Perspectives From Conductors and Older Amateur Musicians." (2022), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Musicians as Artist Citizens: Community engagement as a transformative pedagogical practice" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]