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Dr. Susan Mc Cormick

Assistant Professor (Education)
      
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Dr. Susan Mc Cormick

Assistant Professor (Education)

 mccorms5@tcd.ie

 


Susan McCormick is a lecturer and researcher in music education at the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. Susan leads the Bachelor in Music Education programme and the music strands on the Master in Education and Professional Masters in Education programmes. Susan is also the TCD coordinator for Music Making, the Arts and Society, an elective run in conjunction with the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Susan's doctoral research was carried out under the supervision of Prof Yo Tomita in Queen's University Belfast, and has been described as 'the philological foundation of German Choralbuch research' (Remeš, 2021, p. 274). Susan is former treasurer of the Society for Music Education in Ireland, and is a regular contributor to national press and radio. Her research explores how people become musicians and educators, and how those pathways can be made more inclusive, reflective and accessible. She investigates how pedagogical identities and teaching practices are shaped across historical and contemporary contexts - from overlooked improvisatory traditions of 18th-century music, to the beliefs and motivations of today's student teachers. A recurring thread across her research projects is the question of whose knowledge and experience are legitimised in music education, and how inherited models of teacher (whether historical or contemporary) shape who feels able to participate, to teach, or to belong. Her future research aims to challenge narrow narratives of musical success and amplify voices that exist outside formal systems. Through scholarly and public-facing work, Susan contributes to more inclusive, critically engaged models of music education and teacher development, that is rooted in lived experience and responsive to the diverse realities of learners and teachers today.
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Bach Network Council Member 2026
21st Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music Conference and Programme Committee Member, sub-committee member for Bach Network 2025
The Expansive Canvas, Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th-Century Women Composers International Conference and Collaborative Symposium 2025
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Founding member of the School of Education's Teacher Education and Development Research Group November 2024 Present
Association for Teacher Education in Europe 2025 Present
Society for Musicology in Ireland 2024 Present
Society for Music Education in Ireland 2013 Present
Member of the School of Education Arts in Education Research Group Sept 2022 Present
Post Primary Music Teachers Association 2013 Present
Susan McCormick, The LearnEd Second-level Music Teacher, UK, Peter Lang, 2027, Book, ACCEPTED
Joanne Banks, Aibhin Bray, Ann Devitt, Susan McCormick, Margaret Flood, Universal Design for Learning: Multidisciplinary Examples from the Secondary Classroom, UK, Routledge, 2026, Book, IN_PRESS
UDL in the Music Classroom in, Universal Design for Learning: Multidisciplinary Examples from the Secondary Classroom, UK, Routledge, 2026, [Susan McCormick and Helen Doyle], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Integrated Arts Education in, editor(s)O'Sullivan, C., Clotworthy, E., Nugent, M., Colleary, S., Keane, E., Piazzoli, E., Gubbins, E., Krakaur, L., Kerin, M., McCormick, S., & Heeran Flynn, L. , Curriculum Integration in Primary Classrooms, Routledge, 2026, [Susan McCormick], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Susan McCormick, The Lost Art of Harmonic Variation in Eighteenth-Century Hymn Accompaniment in the German Lutheran Church, Journal of Musicology, 42, (3), 2025, p321 - 349, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Susan McCormick, Beyond Bach's Shadow: Reclaiming the Legacy of Johann Christian Kittel, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, 56, (2), 2025, p195 - 220, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Susan McCormick, Congregational chorales in the eighteenth-century: returning to source, Biennial International Baroque Conference, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, July 2025, 2025, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Susan McCormick, Rediscovering eighteenth-century pedagogical methods: multiple bass chorales and partimento as tools for musical mastery, Society for Music Education in Ireland, University College Cork, November 2024, 2024, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Susan McCormick, `Hold the congregation together and keep them on pitch!": Completing the Picture of Eighteenth-Century Chorale Accompaniment, Society for Musicology in Ireland, University of Galway, June 2024, 2024, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
O'Sullivan, C., Clotworthy, E., Nugent, M., Colleary, S., Keane, E., Piazzoli, E., Gubbins, E., Krakaur, L., Kerin, M., McCormick, S., & Heeran Flynn, L., Arts Alive: A literature review to support curriculum specification development for the area of Arts Education, March, 2023, Report, PUBLISHED
  

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Susan McCormick, Johann Christian Kittel and the long overlooked multiple bass chorale tradition, Queen's University Belfast, 2015, Thesis, PRESENTED

  


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Enacting Education for Sustainable Development Certificate 2025
TRiSS Fellowship Award 2025
Digital Badge in Universal Design for Learning 2024
Trinity Research Doctorate Award 2024
Nominated for a Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award 2023-2024
Nominated for a Research Excellence Award: 'Foster and Growing Research Talent and Leadership' 2023
DAAD prize 2013
DEL Research 2010