Christina Ballico

Dr Christina Ballico has a strong background in the music, media and arts sectors, with her research broadly examining the relationship between music and place, including aspects such as creative and cultural capital, business and career development, popular music culture and policy, and music cities. She currently sits on the Editorial Board of the IASPM Journal and is a former member of the West Australian Music Council. She is the co-editor of the Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Policy Concept (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) edited collection, and is currently the Head of Department for the Master of Creative Industries program at JMC Academy, Brisbane. She maintains Adjunct Research Fellow status with the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre at Griffith University where she was a Research Fellow on the Making music work: Sustainable portfolio careers for Australian musicians ARC Linkage (LP LP 150100497) between 2016 - 2019/