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Our research

<p>One of Australia’s largest and most dynamic music research institutions</p>

Our research advances music across all its sub-disciplines through artistic exploration, music scholarship, and fieldwork.

Our research connects to a number of multidisciplinary initiatives across the University of Sydney and is host to PARADISEC, a world-class digital archive of records from the many cultures of the Pacific region and beyond.

Explore our research

Artistic Research Lab

We discover as we do: creating new knowledge through embodied performance and composition.

Music Diversity Research

Our research in music diversity advances ourunderstanding of the human capacity for music by examining all kinds of music from around the world and what it means to its practitioners and audiences.

Music Education

Enhancing the teaching and learning of music across all educational settings.

Musicology

Grappling with the power of music to transform the way we understand each other.

PARADISEC

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures is digitising analog records of materials from endangered cultures across the world.