Dr Benjamin Phipps

Dr Benjamin Phipps

Senior Lecturer
Div Edu & Student Exp
Academic Development

I work and research across the areas of Academic Development and Music. I Completed my PhD in Ethnomusicology and conduct research primarily using ethnographic methods but have also been involved in quantitative studies in music education. I am particularly interested in how and why people improvise when making music and the way in which they develop their approach over time. As a result my research is interested in the performance based, cognitive and symbolic changes in the way people understand music and it's relationship to themselves and others. I am also a passionate teacher with experience in tertiary education and hold a Senior Fellowship in the Higher Education Academy.

  • Journal articles | 2024
    Phipps B, 2024, 'Leading from Below: Bass Players' Musical Hybridity in Jazz and World Music: The Cases of Charles Mingus and Renaud Garcia-Fons', JOURNAL OF WORLD POPULAR MUSIC, 11, pp. 49 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.23986
    Journal articles | 2023
    Phipps B, 2023, 'Agency, Social Organization, and the Musical Practices of Jazz Bass Players in Australia', MUSICOLOGY AUSTRALIA, 45, pp. 91 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2023.2292889
    Journal articles | 2022
    Phipps B, 2022, 'The Study of Australian Jazz and the Issue of Methodological Nationalism', Jazz and Culture, 5, pp. 52 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/25784773.5.1.03
    Journal articles | 2021
    Phipps B; Dilworth E, 2021, 'IMPROVISING TO A COVID TUNE: REDESIGNING A BEGINNING JAZZ IMPROVISATION COURSE FOR INSTRUMENTALISTS TRAINED IN OTHER STYLES FOR FULLY ONLINE DELIVERY', International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1615/intjinnovonlineedu.2021038381
    Journal articles | 2021
    Phipps B, 2021, 'Reimagining the Double Bass: Lloyd Swanton and The Necks', Journal of Music Research Online, 13, pp. 1 - 12, https://www.jmro.org.au/index.php/mca2/article/view/264/77
    Journal articles | 2021
    Phipps B, 2021, 'Riffing on course redesign: Leveraging pedagogy for teaching music online', PERFECT BEAT, 21, pp. 63 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/prbt.19236
    Journal articles | 2020
    Phipps B, 2020, 'Jazz and cosmopolitan practice: The case of Lloyd Swanton', JAZZ RESEARCH JOURNAL, 14, pp. 57 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jazz.36831

  • Ethnomusicology
  • Jazz
  • Shakuhachi
  • Music Education
  • Academic Development
  • Cognitive Load Theory
  • Assessment and Feedback
  • Self-Determination Theory