Dr Stephanie Pitts – Teaching
Dr Pitts has strong interests in teaching, having completed an MEd in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2003, and received a Senate Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the music department, and holds a Faculty post as Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching Development.
Current undergraduate teaching includes modules on Music in Education, and Piano Accompaniment, as well as dissertation supervision on a wide range of topics. Dr Pitts contributes to the department´s three MAs in music psychology, and was funded through a HEFCE Development Grant to lead the writing of web-based materials for the two distance learning programmes.
Dr Pitts supervises a number of postgraduate research students working on projects within music education and social psychology. Students who have completed PhDs with Dr Pitts include the following:
- Daphne Bryan (jointly supervised by Professor Eric Clarke): student-teacher interaction in the piano lesson
- Simone Kruger (jointly supervised by Professor Jonathan Stock): teaching and learning ethnomusicology in higher education
- Susan Monks: perceptions of the singing voice and vocal identity
- Kate Gee (jointly supervised by Professor Chris Spencer): brass musicians’ careers and identities
- Tim Robinson (jointly supervised by Dr Nicola Dibben): how popular musicians teach
- Sofia Serra (previously supervised by Professor Jane Davidson): personality and attachment in singing teacher-student interactions
- Melissa Dobson (jointly supervised by Professor Chris Spencer): audience enjoyment and experience in classical concerts