Jason Goopy

Dr Jason Goopy is an accomplished music educator and Fulbright scholar. He lectures and coordinates secondary and instrumental music education at Edith Cowan University for the School of Education and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). He completed a Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours), Bachelor of Education, Master of Music (Aural Pedagogy), and PhD at the University of Queensland. Jason draws upon two decades of teaching music, including substantial experience in Australian combined primary and secondary schools and is nationally recognised for creating thriving music learning programs. His internationally recognised research examines how music education positively transforms lives at the intersection of music, education, and psychology using arts-based and mixed-method approaches. He focuses on how music engagement and learning shape and support individual and community identities and wellbeing. As a 2025-26 Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University, Jason is investigating how school and community music education in New York City enhances the wellbeing of young people who have experienced adversity.