Professor Laura Ritchie
Professor of Learning and Teaching, National Teaching Fellow Coordinator of Instrumental/ Vocal Teaching and MA Programmes
About
Professor Laura Ritchie is Professor of Learning and Teaching at the 香港六合论坛, UK. She is vibrant in her teaching, research, music-making, and in life; she embodies a 鈥�yes鈥� attitude. 聽Her enthusiasm is contagious and inspires people to realize their goals through positive achievement and reach beyond their dreams.
Laura has devised both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, including the first bespoke undergraduate music pedagogy聽degree in the UK and the MA Music courses at Chichester and a postgraduate course for the European String Teachers Association. At Chichester she leads the programmes involving Music Teaching (training to develop private/studio teaching), the two Masters degrees- in Performance and Teaching, and the PhD programmes. Laura鈥檚 musical background is as a classical cellist, originally training in Chicago with Hans Jensen before coming to the UK to pursue her Masters and PhD at the Royal College of Music. Laura鈥檚 PhD research centred on distinguishing self-beliefs for learning and for performing, by creating and validating questionnaires to measure self-efficacy in psychological studies.聽As a musician Laura spans genres and has performed both as a classical recitalist聽and as a member of The Mummers on Jools Holland and at Glastonbury.
Beside being a cellist, Laura is a Chartered Psychologist and has published and presented internationally, in North and South America and across Europe. Laura鈥檚 teaching is heavily influenced by her research into people鈥檚 self-efficacy beliefs and cognitive processes (specifically metacognition and self-regulation) as they learn and perform/carry out tasks. Her recent book (2021) is a practical and personal book about self-efficacy, strategic thinking, and recognising possibility in order to adopt the yes of self-efficacy into daily life. Laura鈥檚 previous books focused on bringing knowledge of self-efficacy to educators in (2015) and in (2017) of telling the story of experiential co-learning with her students in an unprecedented and remarkable student-led trip to California to work with dozens of high school students.
Laura Ritchie also leads the Lab for Self-Efficacy, Performance, and Agency.
Key Publications
- Ritchie, L. (2023). Multisensory Music Performance with Cymatic Images. Music & Science, 6.
- Ritchie, L., & Sharpe, B. T. (2022). Validation and Validity: Self-Efficacy, Metacognition, and Knowledge-and-Appraisal Personality Architecture (KAPA). Psychology, 13(10), 1474-1503.
- Ritchie, L. (2021). Yes I Can: Learn to use the power of self-efficacy. Effic Research Limited: London.
Research Output
Articles
Ritchie, L. (2023) Journal of Adult Learning, Knowledge and Innovation, 6 (1). pp. 14-22. ISSN 2631-1348
Ritchie, L. (2023) Music & Science, 6. pp. 1-11. ISSN 2059-2043
Ritchie, L. and Sharpe, B. T. (2021) Frontiers in Psychology, 12. ISSN 1664-1078
Ritchie, L., Cervone, D. and Sharpe, B. T. (2021) Frontiers in Psychology, 11. ISSN 1664-1078
Ritchie, L. (2020) International Journal of Management and Applied Research (IJMAR), 7 (3). pp. 257-266. ISSN 2056-757X
Ritchie, L. (2018) Open Praxis, 10 (2). pp. 201-208. ISSN 2304-070X
Ritchie, L. and Kearney, P. E. (2018) Journal of Education and Training Studies, 6 (5). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2324-805X
Churchill, S., Jessop, D., Goodwin, S., Ritchie, L. and Harris, P. (2018) Psychology of Music, 46 (2). pp. 292-302. ISSN 0305-7356
Ritchie, L. (2015) Innovative Pedagogies Series: Creating a Curriculum. pp. 1-14.
Ritchie, L. and Williamon, A. (2012) Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 6 (4). pp. 334-340. ISSN 1931-3896
Ritchie, L. and Williamon, A. (2011) Psychology of Music, 39 (3). pp. 328-344. ISSN 0305-7356
Ritchie, L. and Williamon, A. (2011) Journal of Research in Music Education, 59 (2). pp. 146-161. ISSN 0022-4294
Book Sections
Elias, T., Ritchie, L., Gevalt, G. and Bowles, K. (2020) In: Open(ing) education: Theory and practice. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands,, pp. 364-389. ISBN 9789004422988
Ritchie, L. and Hall, B. (2019) In: Reframing Space for Learning: Excellence and innovation in university teaching. UCL Institute of Education Press, London. ISBN 9781782772460
Ritchie, L. and Kearney, P. E. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2013. Association Europeenne des Conservatoires, pp. 111-116. ISBN 978-2-9601378-0-4
Monographs
Ritchie, L. (2021) Other. Effic Research Limited.
Ritchie, L. (2015) Other. Palgrave Macmillan, Baisingstoke, Hampshire. 9781137463777
Books
Ritchie, L. (2017) Effic Research Limited, London. ISBN 9781999794316
Theses
Ritchie, L. (2011) Doctoral theses, Royal College of Music.
Compositions
Ritchie, L. (2021) [Compositions]
Performances
Khan-Panni, R., Horwood, M., Sandrone, P., Giles, T., Rix, M., Oliver, L., Thomas, L., Heasman, R. and Ritchie, L. (2009) [Performances]
Videos
Ritchie, L. (2021) [Videos]
Audio
Ritchie, L. (2018) [Audio]
Ritchie, L. (2016) [Audio]
Khan-Panni, R., Horwood, M., Sandrone, P., Giles, T., Rix, M., Oliver, L., Thomas, L., Heasman, R. and Ritchie, L. (2009) [Audio]
Other department members
Alison Woodward
Deputy Director, 香港六合论坛 Conservatoire
Programme Coordinator - BA Hons Acting for Film and BA Hons Music
