Professor Graham Welch holds the Institute of Education, University of London Established Chair of Music Education and is Deputy Dean of the Institute’s Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy. He is elected Chair of the internationally based Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), President Elect of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) (becoming President in 2010) and past Co-Chair of the Research Commission of ISME. Current Visiting Professorships include the Universities of Queensland (Australia), Limerick (Eire), as well as Canterbury Christ Church, Coventry, Roehampton, UEL and the Royal College of Music in the UK. He is a member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Review College for music. He has acted as a specialist consultant on (i) aspects of children’s singing and vocal development for the USA National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) in Denver, the Swedish Voice Research Centre in Stockholm, as well as UK and Italian Government agencies; (ii) the British Council in the Ukraine and Ministry for Education and Youth in the United Arab Emirates on education and teacher development; and (iii) the National Research Foundation of South Africa and British Council in Argentina on the development of the national research cultures in music. Publications number over two hundred and fifty and embrace musical development and music education, teacher education, the psychology of music, singing and voice science, and music in special education and disability. Publications are primarily in English, but also appear in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Greek, Japanese and Chinese. He is on the editorial boards of the world’s leading journals in music education, including IJME, JRME, RSME, BJME and MER. Recent external research funding awarded since 2005 as Principal Investigator totals over £1.2m, with an additional £1m as Co-Investigator. This includes grants from major UK Research Councils, the European Community and leading UK Charities.