Meet the Encore Reseach Team

Pictured: Dr Shelley Brunt (left), Associate Professor Catherine Strong (middle), Dr Fabian Cannizzo (right)

The Encore Project Research Team are based at RMIT University, Australia. Collectively, they have decades of experience in understanding the challenges facing women in the music industry and regularly consult with music industry peak bodies.

Further Research by the Encore Team

Strong, C. & Cannizzo, F. (2020). Understanding Challenges to the Victorian Music Industry During COVID-19, RMIT University, Melbourne.

Cannizzo, F. & Strong, C. (2020). 'Put some balls on that woman': Gendered repertoires of inequality in screen composers' careers, Gender Work and Organisations, 27, 1346-1360.

Brunt, S. (2021). Our ‘stay home’ music video: the collision of academic research and family life during COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, Journal of Children and Media, 15, 21-24.

Brunt, S. & Nelligan, K. (2021). The Australian music industry’s mental health crisis: media narratives during the coronavirus pandemic, Media International Australia, 178, 42-46.

Strong, C. & Cannizzo, F. (2021). Waiting for a break: Barriers to career progression in a man's industry, In: Women's Music for the Screen, Routledge, Abingdon.

Strong, C. & Cannizzo, F. (2021). Victorian Music Festivals 2018/19, RMIT University, Melbourne.

Strong, C.,Cannizzo, F. (2021). Pre-existing conditions Precarity, creative justice and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Victorian music industries, Perfect Beat, 21, 10-24.

Strong, C. & Gaunson, S. (2021). Start Me Up: The Place and Displacement of Women in the Cinema of the Rolling Stones In: Mapping the Rockumentary, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Brunt, S. (2022). Can I Bring My Kid to the Gig?, In: Popular Music and Parenting, Routledge, New York.

Brunt, S. (2022). Towards A Parent-Friendly Music Industry Insights from Workers during the COVID Pandemic, In: Popular Music and Parenting, Routledge, New York.

Brunt, S. & Giuffre, L. (2022). Starting the Conversation about Popular Music and Parenting, In: Popular Music and Parenting, Routledge, New York.

Cannizzo, F. & Strong, C. (2022). New Normal or Old Problems? “Hibernation” and Planning for Music Careers in the Victorian Music Industries during COVID-19, Journal of World Popular Music, 9, 99-116.

Contact

Feel free to contact us with any questions about the project or training sessions.

Email
encoreprojectrmit@gmail.com