AIRS PROJECT DIRECTOR

Annabel J. Cohen, Professor of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island,  airscohen@upei.ca

AIRS RESEARCH THEME LEADERS/CO-LEADERS

1. Development

• 1. 1 Acquisition of Singing

Christine Tsang, Department of Psychology, Huron University College.

Laurel Trainor, Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour; Director McMaster Institute for Music & the Mind;

• 1. 2 Comparison of Singing and Speaking

Sandra Trehub, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

Frank Russo, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University

• 1.3 AIRS Global Test Battery

Annabel Cohen, Professor of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, acohen@upei.ca

2. Singing and Education

• 2.1 Learning to Singing Informally

Patricia Shehan Campbell, Professor, Department of Music Education, University of Washington

• 2.2 Formal Training of Singing

Darryl Edwards, Director of Voice Program, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

• 2.3 Teaching Through Singing

Andrea Rose, Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Jennifer Sullivan, Professor, Department of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

3. Singing and Wellbeing

• 3.1 Singing and Intercultural Understanding

Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair in Island Studies, UPEI

Lily Chen-Hafteck, Music Education Coordinator, Department of Music, Kean University

• 3.2 Singing and Intergenerational Understanding

Rachel Heydon, Associate Professor Education, U. Western Ontario

• 3.3 Music & Health

Jennifer Nicol University of Saskachewan

AIRS DIGITAL LIBRARY of Singing.

Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University

Jonathan Lane, AIRS, UPEI

AIRS GEOGRAPHIC LIAISONS

ATLANTIC CANADA

CENTRAL CANADA and CENTRAL USA, Frank Russo, Ryerson, Toronto

WESTERN CANADA, WESTERN USA, and SOUTH AMERICA, Rena Sharon, UBC

EUROPEAN UNION, Simone Dalla Bella, Poland

AUSTRALASIA, Mayumi Adachi, Hokkaido University, Japan