Dr Steve Dillon
Faculty of Creative Industries: Music & Sound
Queensland University of Technology
O Block B-Wing Room: OB411,
Victoria Park Rd. Kelvin Grove,
Queensland Australia 4059 Telephone: 617 313183691

Dr Steve Dillon is founding director of the save to DISC (Documenting Innovation in Sound Communities) Research Network which examines and documents the qualities and relationships between music, meaning, cognitive and social benefit, health and well being. His  research focuses upon meaningful engagement with music making in schools and communities.  Steve is Project Leader for the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction design (ACID) Network Jamming Research Creating Generative Media performance systems to extend community interaction and ways of learning through digital technologies. Steve is a senior lecturer of Music and  Sound and music education in the Faculty of Creative Industry,  Queensland University of Technology.

Members of the save to DISC  Research Network help create social and human capital and share the following network principals:

1. Always work with ideologically driven and passionate people who believe in the positive power of music.
2. Always use the resources around you. Your own input will be in-kind and your altruistic labour.
3. Build Networks and de-construct bureaucracies.
4. Focus and select your target audience for maximum impact and promote your cause supported by strong evidence.
5.  Document in rigorous and accountable ways and utilise compelling music making examples so that music is always present in the conversation about music.

To Join save to DISC please contact: Dr Steve Dillon