Heidi Westerlund is a Professor at the Sibelius Academy (University of the Arts Helsinki) in Finland. Her research interests include higher arts education, music professionalism, music teacher education, collaborative learning, cultural diversity and democracy in music education. She has published extensively in music education and led several nationally and internationally funded large-scale projects over the past 15 years, including the large ArtsEqual consortium.

Margaret Barrett is Distinguished Professor and Head of the School of Music at Monash University, Australia. She has led 6 ARC Discovery grants, 2 ARC Linkage grants, and been Co-CI in 2 additional ARC Discovery grants. She has published extensively in music education and served as President of ISME (2012-2014), Chair of APSMER (2009-2011), and Chair of WAAE (2013-2015).