Dr Jason Goopy is a recognised teacher, scholar, and leader in music education. He is currently Lecturer and Coordinator of Secondary & Instrumental Music Education at Edith Cowan University. Jason draws upon 15 years of teaching music in Australian combined primary and secondary schools and is a specialist in Kodály-inspired pedagogy. Jason’s research investigates how music education positively transforms lives by examining the nexus between music, education, and psychology using arts-based and mixed methods. 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. He is currently leading funded research projects investigating how music education supports the health and well-being of young people and the contributions of Australian Kodály Certificate courses to music teacher growth and development. Jason serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education (Q1), the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and the Australian Journal of Music Education. He is the current national President of the Australian Society for Music Education, Immediate Past President of Kodály Australia, and an Advisory Group Member for the Alberts Tony Foundation national advocacy project, Music Education: Right from the Start.