School of Education

Dr Jason Goopy

Jason is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Secondary and Instrumental Music Education in the School of Education.

Background

Dr Jason Goopy is a Senior Lecturer in Music Education and a Fulbright Scholar. He lectures and coordinates secondary and instrumental music education for the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Jason draws upon two decades of teaching music in studio, school, tertiary, and community settings, and is nationally recognised for creating flourishing music learning programs.

Jason’s research examines how music education positively transforms lives at the intersection of music, education, and psychology using creative arts-based and mixed-method approaches. He focuses on how intentional music engagement and learning enhance young people’s wellbeing and how their educators can be supported. He received the Australian Society for Music Education Callaway Doctoral Award, and his monograph, Teenage Boys, Musical Identities and Music Education: An Australian Narrative Inquiry, is published open access by Routledge. As a 2025-26 Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University, Jason investigated how learning music in New York City supports the music-wellbeing literacy of young people, the wellbeing strategies used by their teacher-facilitators, and enablers and barriers for flourishing experienced by program leaders.

Jason has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to national and international service leadership and has been recognised with a Fellowship of the Australian Society for Music Education (FASME). He is the Immediate Past President of the Australian Society for Music Education and Kodály Australia, a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education, and an Advisory Group Member for the national initiatives, Music Education: Right from the Start and Music in Me. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education, the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and the Australian Journal of Music Education.

Current teaching

• MUE2125/MUE6711 – Junior Secondary Music Education
• MUE3320/MUE6712 – Senior Secondary Music Education
• MUS3120 – The Art of Teaching and Learning Music

Professional associations

• Immediate Past President, Australian Society for Music Education
• Immediate Past President, Kodály Australia
• Advisory Group member, Music Education: Right from the Start, Alberts Tony Foundation
• Advisory Group member, Music in Music, Australian Youth Orchestra
• ASME Representative, National Advocates of Arts Education
• Tertiary Representative, Senior Music Curriculum Advisory Committee, WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Music Education
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Research in Choral Singing
• Editorial Board Member, Australian Journal of Music Education

Awards and recognition

• 2025-2026 – Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University
• 2025 – Fellowship of the Australian Society for Music Education (FASME)
• 2024 – Research Award for Excellence in Australian Kodály-inspired Music Education, Kodály Australia
• 2023 – ECU Aspire Award, Business Events Perth
• 2021 – Callaway Doctoral Award, Australian Society for Music Education
• 2021 – Fellowship (FHEA), Advance HE & The University of Queensland
• 2005 – Hugh Brandon Prize for Orchestral Conducting, The University of Queensland

Research interests

• Music and arts education
• Identity
• Wellbeing
• Singing
• Teacher education
• Arts-based, narrative, and mixed research methods