SILC Founder, Clare Hall (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts, Monash University, Australia. Her interdisciplinary practice-based research bridges boundaries between the arts, education, and sociology, with her key contribution to date in music and masculinity. She is the Cofounder/leader of the Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education group (International Society of Music Education) and is part of a major ARC funded project: Diversifying Music in Australia: Gender Equity in Jazz and Improvisation. Her scholarly publications include sole author, Masculinity, Class and Music Education (Palgrave, 2018), co-editor of Sociological Thinking in Music Education: International Intersections (OUP, 2021), and Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education (Routledge, forthcoming 2024).