Betweening. Quantitative Studies into Music Technology degrees using UCAS data (Poster)

The way a particular discipline becomes established and how it evolves has as much to do with institutional and governmental politics, social constructs and pedagogical methodologies, as it does with the discipline itself. It seems that in the degrees of the interdisciplinary subject area of music technology, we see an example of interdisciplinary things to come. We see a collection of academic and professional communities evolving and sometimes clashing in the evolutionary and culturally ingrained tendency in academia to standardize methodology and terminology. We see the movements of sub-disciplines moving apart and regrouping and
sometimes creating new single disciplines within new boundaries. And this movement is governed by different outside factors such as government policies, the Research Assessment Exercise, or the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992.

This poster talk presented the results from the quantitative study of the Palatine (Higher Education Academy) funded project.