BIO
Current Employment
Professor of Music Education, The University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, Faculty of Music Education, Jazz and Folk Music.
Previous Employment
Acting Professor of Music Education, The University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, Faculty of Music Education, Jazz and Folk Music, 2017-2019
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, The Global Visions Research Initiative, 2015–2017
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, The ArtsEqual Research Initiative, 2015–2016
University Teacher (tuntiopettaja) The University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, Faculty of Music Education, Jazz and Folk Music, 2012–2016
Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, MuTri Doctoral School, Finland, 2015
Grant period: Postdoctoral Researcher, Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2014–2015
Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, MuTri Doctoral School, Finland, 2013–2014
Grant period: Postdoctoral Researcher, The Finnish Composers’ Copyright Society Teosto, 2013
Grant period: Visiting Researcher at Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium Brisbane, Australia, Sibelius Academy: Pentacon Foundation, 2012
Grant period: Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 2011–2012
Grant period: Sibelius Academy: Selim & Minna Palmgren Trust, 2011
Grant period: Alfred Kordelin Foundation, 2010–2011
Qualifications
Doctor of Music (Music Education)
Sibelius Academy, Finland, 2012
Dissertation title: Learning from cosmopolitan digital natives: Identity, musicianship, and changing values in (in)formal music communities.
Master of Arts in Applied Music Psychology
Roehampton University, UK, 2009
Thesis title: A case study of digital musicians learning to make music.
Master of Music
Sibelius Academy, Finland, 2008
Thesis title: Mikserielämää. Etnografinen tutkimus muusikkoidentiteetin rakentumisesta musiikin verkkoyhteisössä. [Mikseri life – An ethnographic study of the construction of musical identity in an online music community.]
Teacher’s pedagogical studies (60 ECTS)
Sibelius Academy, Finland, 2008
Dr Heidi Partti is known for her work in the areas of music-related learning communities, digital technology, peer learning, collective creativity, and the development of intercultural competencies in music teacher education.
As Professor of Music Education at Sibelius Academy at the University of the Arts Helsinki, she is actively involved in developing music (teacher) education in Finland, and holds leadership positions with international organizations such as the International Society for Music Education.
As a scholar, Heidi is involved in two major projects: The Arts as Public Service: Strategic Steps towards Equality (ArtsEqual), and Global Visions Through Mobilizing Networks: Co-Developing Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Finland, Israel and Nepal (Global Visions).
She has published widely in distinguished peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored Säveltäjyyden jäljillä, a book on composing pedagogy. In addition to academic journals and books, Heidi writes a blog and regularly presents her work in conferences, seminars and various media outlets. Heidi teaches music education students at the Bachelor and Masters Level, and supervises PhD students at the Mutri Doctoral School.
Prior to her career in academia, Heidi has worked as a music teacher, musician and in the music business.