Andy Ward

Biographic Data

ID6566372
NAMEAndy Ward
GIVEN NAMESAndy
FAMILY NAMEWard
SIGNATUREWARD A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Sunshine Coast
ORCID0000-0002-2646-6920
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Challenges and frustrations for Indigenous Australians participating in the recording sector

    Lachlan Goold, Kevin Starkey et al.ARTICLEPerfect Beat2026

    This research explores the barriers to entry and the challenges and frustrations for Australian First Nations music producers. The proliferation of software-based technology in the recording studio sector resulted in notions of technological democracy. However, this democratization is often contested for not including women and various marginalized and minority groups. Through an Indigenous-led music production workshop project, the research team…

  • Music education as symbolic action

    Open AccessAndy Ward, Briony Luttrell et al.ARTICLESocial Semiotics2025References: 4

  • Music as symbolic action

    Open AccessPenelope Graham, Phil Graham et al.ARTICLEDiscourse & Society2023Cited by: 3References: 11

    The aim of this paper is to describe and exemplify a theoretical perspective for the analysis of music as symbolic action in critical studies of discourse. We use deployments of music by legislatures in Australia, the UK, and the USA as exemplar cases to develop foundations for a critical, non-semiotic perspective that sees music work as gestalt complexes of physical and cultural forces that move people towards or away from specific actions and a…

  • Hitchhiker’s guide to reality

    Briony Luttrell, Hannah Joyce Banks et al.ARTICLEPerfect Beat2021

    In this article we explore a collaborative interdisciplinary Theatre and Music production as part of two undergraduate courses at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, during COVID-19. Tertiary intuitions all over the world are currently being forced to adapt in radical response to the pandemic. The specific conditions of the authors’ experience prompted this collaboration where both teaching and learning occurred in an unstable, unpre…

  • The Long-term Effect of a Degree on Graduate Lives

    Alan Jenkins, Lynn Jones et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2001

    This article considers the long-term effect of a degree on graduate lives. By following-up a degree course which has used active-learning methods within a modular course for over 20 years, we provide a prototype for evaluating the lifelong learning generated by modern day teaching methods. While we concur with other researchers that there are communal benefits from a degree, we also conclude that there is a huge variation in the long-term effects…

  • The Long-term Effect of a Degree on Graduate Lives

    Alan Jenkins, Lynn Jones et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2001

    This article considers the long-term effect of a degree on graduate lives. By following-up a degree course which has used active-learning methods within a modular course for over 20 years, we provide a prototype for evaluating the lifelong learning generated by modern day teaching methods. While we concur with other researchers that there are communal benefits from a degree, we also conclude that there is a huge variation in the long-term effects…

  • Geography beyond the systematic

    Alan Jenkins, Andrew D Ward et al.ARTICLEJournal of Geography in Higher…1990