Associate ProfessorBronwen Ackermann

Associate Professor

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Research projects & supervision summary

Sound Performers - an e-health initiative focussed on the delivery of health education to tertiary music students. Current expansion of the project to include research trials investigating strategies to enhance health literacy and self-efficacy of music students, as well as translational applications of health education into music training practices.

High Performance Consultant guiding best-practice educational and interventional iniatives to the Australian National Academy of Music Musicians' Health program.

Evaluation of the physiological benefts of warm-up in violinists

Investigating the benefits of participation in health education during music training

Investigating the interaction between pain, fatigue and stress on movement and muscle activity during skilled musical performance

Investigating the relationship between a musicians' physical characteristics and music performance biomechanics

Inviestigating the interrelationship between physical and psychological factors in healthy and injured musicians

Humboldt Fellowship - developing an off-instrument retrainng protocol for musicians' dystonia

Exploring ways of enhancing health literacy in musicians population in order to enhance healthy practices

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Effects of muscle fatigue, pain and warm-up on elite performance
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    French Horn Players’ Attitudes Regarding the Accurate Application of Anatomical Knowledge in Optimal Playing Philosophies
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Movement Efficiency in Violinists: Developing a new Tool for Injury Prevention
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Musical Instrument Ergonomics in Violin and Piano Performance
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Respiratory Muscle Performance in Wind Instrumentalists: Are They Breathing Athletes