Naomi Barker

Naomi Barker is a lecturer in the music department. She researches seventeenth century music and its cultural environments and is currently working on a project exploring links between music, medicine, science and religion in a hospital in Rome. She is discovering some interesting comparisons with modern healthcare along the way. Naomi is on the module teams for A105 and A224 and is working on the production teams for A111 and A234.

Recently, Naomi has written two units, one on the blues and one on protest music in South Africa, for the new Level 1 module A111 Discovering the arts and humanities, which starts in October. She has also written an open access MOOC Understanding musical scores, and is busy writing two units for a new Level 2 music module and half a unit for Part 2 of the new Level 1 module, on music and the print revolution.

Having spent more than 20 years teaching music in schools, in adult education centres and as an associate lecturer, she is a passionate advocate for making music education available to all. She has personal experience of the benefits of lifelong learning as her father received an MA in Classical Studies at the age of 80.

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