Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading. She is music education lead and School Director of Internationalisation and Global Engagement at the Institute of Education. She teaches music education on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Reading and is a doctoral supervisor. Her scholarship focuses on teaching musical literacy and musical leadership, choral education and Arts Based Education Research in music.
Rebecca is an experienced choral director. She is the founder of Universal Voices, a free, children’s community choir at the University. Universal Voices is a unique choir in UK Universities, offering high quality choral education for children and opportunities for student conductors to learn to conduct by working with the children. Rebecca is also a freelance musicianship tutor, and has worked as a consultant with the British Kodály Academy, the Association of British Choral Directors, the National Schools Singing Programme and Sing for Pleasure.