Rate My Professor Myung-Sook Auh

Dr. Myung-Sook Auh serves as Senior Lecturer in Arts Education within the School of Education at the University of New England (UNE), a position she has held since 2005. She concurrently directs the Asia ConneXions program at the SiMERR National Research Centre. Before joining UNE, Auh was affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in 2002 and the University of New South Wales from 2000 to 2002. Her academic credentials include a PhD in Music (Music Education) from Case Western Reserve University, USA (1995), a Master of Music (Music Education) from the University of Akron, USA (1992), and a Bachelor of Music degree from South Korea, during which she trained as an operatic singer.

Auh's research interests encompass music education, creativity in music, the use of videoconferencing in schools, pre-service teachers' confidence in teaching music, prediction of musical creativity among students, compositional strategies using traditional and graphic notations, effects of videoconferencing on curriculum outcomes, and evaluation of the Asia ConneXions program. As coordinator of UNE's Secondary Music Education program, she teaches key units including Secondary Music Pedagogy for Years 7-10 and 11-12, Secondary Music ICT, Research-Based Secondary Music Pedagogy, and Primary Music and Dance. She has produced 57 publications between 1995 and 2021, attracting 296 citations and an h-index of 8. Notable works include a chapter in an Oxford University Press volume (Auh & Walker, 2017), refereed journal articles on videoconferencing for creative arts (Auh & Walker, 2014), cultural exchanges via video analyses (Reading, Auh, Pegg, & Cybula, 2013), and the role of culture in music education (Auh & Walker, 2018), as well as a government report (Auh, 2013). Through Asia ConneXions, Auh has secured over $1 million in funding from 2013 to 2021, including a $558,352 Australian Government grant in 2013, facilitating interactions among 28,000 students and 1,500 teachers from 900 schools in Australia and Asia. She holds memberships in the American Educational Research Association, British Educational Research Association, National Association for Music Education, International Society for Music Education, Australian Society for Music Education, and the May Day Group.