Dr Jason Goopy is a Senior Lecturer in Music Education at Edith Cowan University and Fulbright Scholar. He lectures and coordinates secondary and instrumental music education for the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Jason draws upon two decades of teaching music, including substantial experience in Australian combined primary and secondary schools as a Highly Accomplished Teacher and Head of The Arts. He is nationally recognised for creating flourishing music learning programs.
Jason’s research examines how music education positively transforms lives at the intersection of music, education, and psychology using arts-based and mixed-method approaches. He focuses on how music engagement and learning shape and support individual and community identities and wellbeing. He received the Australian Society for Music Education Callaway Doctoral Award, and his monograph, Teenage Boys, Musical Identities and Music Education: An Australian Narrative Inquiry, is published by Routledge. As a 2025-26 Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University, Jason is investigating how school and community music education in New York City enhances the wellbeing of young people. He 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.
Jason has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to supporting educators and has substantial national leadership experience. He is the Immediate Past President of the Australian Society for Music Education and Kodály Australia, a member of the National Advocates for Arts Education, and an Advisory Group Member for the national initiatives, Music Education: Right from the Start and Music in Me.