(MENAFN- The Conversation) Research Fellow, Creativity and Wellbeing Hallmark Research Initiative, The University of Melbourne Profile Articles Activity
Frederic Kiernan is an early career Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne whose work examines the relationship between music, creativity, emotion and wellbeing, both presently and in the past. He is a specialist on the music of Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) and his PhD thesis (2019), titled 'The Figure of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) in the History of Emotions' won the University of Melbourne's Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis (2020). He has examined Zelenka's music from different theoretical perspectives in historical musicology, reception study, music psychology and the history and sociology of emotion. He has also focused on the area of creativity and wellbeing, and is currently a Research Fellow and Academic Convenor of the Creativity and Wellbeing Hallmark Research Initiative (CAWRI) at the University of Melbourne. He recently co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Wellbeing on the theme of 'creativity and wellbeing', as well as a special issue of Musicology Australia titled 'Zelenka, Bach and the Eighteenth-century German Baroque: Essays in Honour of Janice B. Stockigt'. He is currently the National Secretary of the Musicological Society of Australia.
Experience
- 2019–present Research fellow, Creativity and Wellbeing Hallmark Research Initiative, The University of Melbourne
- 2018–2021 Lecturer, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne
- 2015–2019 Assistant lecturer, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
- 2010–2015 Tutor, The University of Melbourune
Education
- 2019 The University of Melbourne, PhD
- 2014 The University of Melbourne, Master of Music
- 2008 The University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Music
Grants and Contracts
- 2015 Endeavour Research Fellowship Role: Research Fellow Funding Source: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australian Government
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