This site acts as a conduit to and from music makers, researchers, organisation and projects that value music and sound as a way of building community, personal and social identity and social and cultural capital.

Please feel free to join us to share your experiences or to connect with passionate and exciting people and projects where music is at the centre of a sound community from all over the world. The network documents innovation, publishes books and scholarly articles, makes resources available free to all and facilitates relationships and partnerships between researchers, organisations, schools and communities. The blogroll on the righthand sidebar links to savetodisc partners and associates.

We welcome you to join the network by submitting your email address to sc.dillon@qut.edu.au or simply using the resources and links whenever you need. We would love to hear and share what you are doing with this vibrant community across the globe.Thanking  all the current network members for  your great research and compelling examples of innovative  sound communities. savetoDISC partners are committed to research and action that amplifies the voices of the unheard and the tensions at the interfaces between cultures. Our goal is to keep music present in the conversation about music so that the meaningful music making is understood as an activity that humanity participates in for life. Please visit the links in the blogroll to see the diversity of the networks members and associations.

Primary goals:

1. Create an international collaborative research network to connect researchers globally and provide opportunities for collaborative research and sharing of best practice. (Link to songs of resilience wiki)
2. Develop digitised and trans-disciplinary research methodologies, infrastructure and templates/models for storing, appraising and publishing peer refereed research in multimedia form and act as a resource production clearinghouse. (Link to songs of resilience wiki)
3. Develop and facilitate partnerships for a series of funded research projects focused on creating and evaluating innovative music curriculum and experience design in communities and schools in partnership with network partners.
4. Create postgraduate research concentrations at QUT and associated institutions in the network. Provide postgraduate and in-service music education training for teachers and community music coaches.
5. Facilitate a series of publications, seminars, symposia and conferences around the theme: Meaningful music making for life. (See: Cambridge Scholars Publishing series
6. save to DISC is a non-institutional, not for profit collaborative network.

Study Opportunities with save to DISC.

The save to DISC Research Network focuses upon meaningful music making for life in communities and schools. It seeks to connect research and practice and evaluate the role and effects of music making on health and well being across cultures and ages in communities. Each university associated with the network has world class researchers who facilitate coursework project based and theoretical research. Please contact us if you wish to be referred to a research supervisor in your region.

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