Dr Jason Goopy is a recognised teacher, scholar, and leader in music education. He is currently Lecturer and Coordinator of Secondary Music & Instrumental Music Education at Edith Cowan University. Jason draws upon 15 years of leading arts programs and teaching music in Queensland combined primary and secondary schools and is a specialist in Kodály-inspired music education. Jason’s research aims to uncover the potential for music education to positively transform lives by examining the nexus between music, education, and psychology. He received the Australian Society for Music Education Callaway Doctoral Award and his forthcoming monograph, Teenage boys, musical identities and music education: An Australian narrative inquiry, will go to print with Routledge later this year. He is the recipient of an ECU Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant and is currently investigating how trauma-informed community music education supports the wellbeing of children and young people using a highly qualitative arts-based research design. Jason serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education, the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and the Australian Journal of Music Education. He is the current national President of the Australian Society for Music Education, Immediate Past President of Kodály Australia, and an Advisory Group Member for the Alberts Tony Foundation national project, Music Education: Right from the Start.