Save to DISC (Documenting Innovation in Sound Communities)

Save to DISC Research Network acts as a conduit and broker for music makers, researchers, organisations and projects that value music and sound as a way of building community, personal and social identity and social and cultural capital.

Our goals are:

• Create an international collaborative research network to connect researchers globally and provide opportunities for collaborative research and sharing of best practice.
• Develop digitised and trans-disciplinary research methodologies, infrastructure and templates/models for storing, appraising and publishing peer refereed research in multimedia form and act as a resource production clearinghouse.
• Develop and facilitate partnerships for a series of funded research projects focused on creating and evaluating innovative music curriculum and experience design in communities and schools in partnership with network partners.
• Create postgraduate research concentrations at QUT and associated institutions in the network. Provide postgraduate and in-service music education training for teachers and community music coaches.
• Facilitate a series of publications, seminars, symposia and conferences around the theme: Meaningful music making for life. (See: Cambridge Scholars Publishing series)
• Save to DISC is a non-institutional, not for profit collaborative network.