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Dr Una MacGlone

Head of MA Creative Arts Practice & Arts Leadership and Funding

Dr Una MacGlone is the head of MA Creative Arts Practice and Arts Leadership and Fundraising. She is an improviser working across genres and disciplines. Her ongoing research is focused on issues related to improvisation, music education, music psychology as well as access to and inclusion in careers in the creative arts.

Dr Una MacGlone is a researcher and creative musician. As a founder member of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, she devises pieces using improvisation as the central creative process. As a double bassist, she has collaborated across genres and is on over 25 commercially available recordings.

Her research interests include improvisation, pedagogy and social and wellbeing effects of creative music making. She is co-editor of an anthology: Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy (2019), published by Routledge and has published in several Music Psychology and Education journals.

From 2021-24 she held a prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship which enabled innovative research investigating processes of inclusion in and wellbeing impacts from community music workshops with children and young people with additional support needs. Una is also an experienced creative educator with all ages as well as children and young people with additional support needs.

She has an international profile as a teacher of free improvisation, and has given workshops and lectured across Europe and North America.