Pro Vice Chancellor (AEL)
PhD MHEd MMus GradDipMus BMus LMUSA LTCL
Email pvcael@griffith.edu.au
Phone +61 7 3735 5710
Areas of responsibility
- Executive level leadership and management of the Arts, Education and Law Group.
- Strategy planning for the Group.
- Management of the Group budget and student load targets.
- High level external representation of the University and Group nationally and internationally.
Biography
Professor Scott Harrison is currently Pro Vice Chancellor (Arts, Education and Law) and Assistant Vice Chancellor (Cultural Curation and Community Partnerships) at Griffith University, having previously served as Director, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University from 2013 to 2019. He is head of Griffith University’s Mount Gravatt and South Bank campuses.
He entered the higher education sector following a dual career in school education and performing arts and has performance experience in opera and music theatre as both singer and musical director. He is a recognised scholar in the realms of musical theatre, music pedagogy, and in the intersections between music and health and music and gender. Scott is Chair of the Australian Youth Orchestra, and a past President of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing. In 2010 he won a national award for Learning and Teaching and in 2012 he became a National Learning and Teaching Fellow. His latest book 'Musical Theatre Education and Training' was published by Routledge in September 2024.