Pamela Burnard is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Arts Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK where she coordinates and lectures on the MPhil in Educational Research and the MPhil in Arts, Culture and Education. She teaches undergraduate courses on, and supervises MPhil/PhD students with research interests in topics such as creative teaching and learning; children as composers and improvisers; the development of musical creativity; the arts in children’s lives; creativity in adolescence, social groups and inclusion; teacher-artist partnerships; creativity in schools; researching children; and the development of innovative visual- and arts-based research methods. She is co-convener of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) SIG on Creativity in Education and serves on several editorial boards, including the Thinking Skills and Creativity, Journal of Artistic and Creative Education, The Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, Research Papers in Education, amongst others. She is Faculty link tutor for accredited courses in Creativity as Practice in secondary school settings. She presently participates in two international collaborative research projects, with colleagues from Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia and Hong Kong who are researching ‘Intercultural music education and social cohesion’ and with colleagues from Israel and Ireland who are researching ‘Children’s musical creativity’. Other recent research projects include a study of ‘Artists’ pedagogy and school change’ and ‘Documenting progression in creative learning’. She is editor of the Creativity Section in the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (Springer, 2007), and co-editor of several books including Reflective Practices in Arts Education (Springer, 2006), Teaching Music with Digital Technologies (Continuum, 2007), and Creative Learning 3-11 and How We Document It (Trentham, 2007).