Robin Ryan

Robin Ryan is a Visiting Fellow at the ANU School of Music with previous affiliations to The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, and Macquarie University. She connects a love of music and natural environments to collaborative research with First Nations Peoples. Robin researched Australia’s first MA thesis on urban Aboriginal music and a PhD on Indigenous gumleaf playing at Monash University. She advised the editors of Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia (2003), and contirbuted to the award-winning Current Directions in Ecomusicology (Routledge). Robin co-authored chapters in Collaborative Ethnomusicology (Lyrebird Press) and Musical Collaboration Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Australia (Routledge). She was awarded the 2019 Rebecca Coyle Prize for Research of Regional Significance in the Australia-Aotearoa nexus by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and is currently preparing a book.