I am the Director of the International Centre of Community Music based at York St John University, York, UK.
I have held previously positions at Boston University, USA, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK and the University of Limerick, Ireland. Lee has been a visiting professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany and Westminster Choir College, Princeton, USA.
I received my PhD from the Irish Academy of Music and Dance, Ireland and is the President of International Society of Music Education (2016 to 2018).
As a community musician, I have worked across the education sector as well as within health settings, prison and probation service, youth and community, adult education, and arts organisations such as orchestras and dance.
As a presenter and guest speaker, I have worked on four continents in university, school, and NGO settings. I am the senior editor for the International Journal of Community Music and was author of Community Music: In Theory and in Practice (2012, Oxford University Press), co-author of Engagement in Community Music (2017, Routledge) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2017).
