Jenna Brown

Jenna Brown is a UKRI Economic and Social Research Council funded doctoral student at the Institute of Education. She holds an MSc in Education from Oxford University, an MA in Voice Pedagogy and a BA (hons) in Theology from Cambridge University. Fusing these interests, she is currently exploring qualitative and mixed methods Music Education research, specialising vocal pedagogy and vocal health. She is a fellow of the RSA and a qualified voice rehabilitation specialist and vocal massage therapist, and director of Bristol Voice Care - providing rehabilitation and coaching for professional and amateur individuals and groups. Jenna continues to manage a busy performance schedule as a classical mezzo-soprano, working in concert and recital. She is Assistant Conductor for the Bristol Youth Choir and vocal coach to numerous choirs in the South-West UK, including the acclaimed Exultate Singers.

Jenna has authored over ten peer reviewed papers on aspects of voice and choral pedagogy, and the ethics and practice of vocal rehabilitation and voice therapy. In particular, her research and practice centre on issues of Inclusion, Equity and Diversity and the lived experiences of singers and voice professionals. Jenna also writes regularly for Music Teacher Magazine, where she authors resources on singing in schools. She has presented her research at numerous international conferences and is regularly engaged as a speaker and workshop leader. As a qualified classroom teacher, with experience teaching Humanities and Music in Primary, Secondary, Post-16 and Special Education she is often engaged as a visiting lecturer for Universities, Schools and Corporate Organisations. In one of these roles, she leads the world's first accredited course on inclusive practice in vocal teaching and choral leadership, administered by Vocal Health Education. In 2024 Jenna was awarded best presenter at the Pan European Vocal Conference. 

Jenna is an editorial board member for The Voice and Speech Review, The Journal of Voice, Music Scientiae, and the Cambridge Educational e-Journal, as well as being a book proposal reviewer for Routledge. She is also the founding editor-in-chief for the new peer review journal Voices of AOTOS (launching 2026), as well as being elected Chair of the UK Association of Teachers of Singing from 2026. She serves as a committee member for the British Voice Associations research group. In 2024 she founded the Transformational Voice Research Network - a collective committed to advancing underutilised, socially transformative qualitative and mixed method research approaches.

thesis title

A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration of the Singing Lesson

special interests

Qualitative methodologies; Vocal pedagogy; Vocal Health; Singing for health and wellbeing; Choral pedagogy; Philosophy and ethics; Critical theory; Inclusion, equity and diversity; Music education and social justice

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