Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney

Georgia was Convenor of the Music Engagement Program (MEP) at the Australian National University (ANU) School of Music from 2011-2018. In 2018 the MEP became a private volunteer-led organisation (now Cordialis). Georgia continued her research at the ANU in the College of Health and Medicine from 2018-2022. Her research included projects concerning mental health peer work, medical education, and the impacts of communal singing outreach for people living with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

 

In 2022 Georgia became the inaugural Friends' Lecturer in Classics and Curator of the ANU Classics Museum, a half-time philanthropically funded role involving the development of outreach and education initiatives, and conducting research into object-based learning, ancient creative practice and its role in education and health. She has managed international repatriation cases and curated new exhibitions engaging contemporary artists responding to ancient material culture.

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She has developed a long-term collaboration with BJ Anyos of the Australian charity Child Players Ltd (of which Georgia is on the Board of Directors) developing award-winning music and theatre education and outreach programs that promote mental health, wellbeing, and lifelong creative engagement in their participants.

 

In 2016 Georgia was presented with a Children's Week Award by the Governor General of Australia for her work with Cranleigh School, a specialist school for children living with disabilities. In 2020 Georgia won a Research Fellowship at the National Library of Australia, in the memory of Averill Edwards, exploring the community singing movement in interwar Australia. In 2022 she collaborated with colleagues at the ANU and the Royal College of Music (London) to establish the International Network for Musical Care, involving practitioners and researchers from across the globe. In 2026 Georgia was awarded with the International Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Award for Leadership in the Public Humanities and an Australian Academy of Humanities Travelling Fellowship for her work developing research and public education initiatives stemming from repatriation cases in the ANU Classics Museum.