Ryan is a pianist, examiner, and music educator from the UK. He spent over 11 years working across Asia in various music education leadership roles, supporting the lives and work of countless music studio teachers, including the curation of regular music teacher conferences and professional support programmes. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne in Australia, putting to work posthuman thinking to differently conceptualise the professional identities of musician-teachers. To support this, Ryan was selected to attend Rosi Braidotti’s Intersectional Posthumanities course at the 2023 Utrecht University Summer School in The Netherlands.