In this presentation, adam will discuss the disability-led model of Drake Music Lab, a UK-based organization that brands itself as “leaders in music, disability, and technology,” its influence on his community-based collaborative research projects in Canada, and the implications of this approach for the profession of music education

adam patrick bell is Canada Research Chair of Music, Inclusion, and Accessibility and an associate professor of music education at Western University, Canada. He is the author of Dawn of the DAW (Oxford, 2018), and editor of the Music Technology Cookbook (2020). adam is the editor of Canadian Music Educator and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Music, Technology & Education, Journal of Popular Music Education, and Visions of Research in Music Education. Currently, adam is the principal investigator of three studies funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada that focus on disability and music education.