Research

Making singing voice research way more accessible

Many of the world’s elite scholarly journals are closed, meaning you can’t easily access the papers they publish without an expensive subscription. The Australian College of Vocal Arts (ACVA) has long been committed to making high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly research way more available and accessible to practitioners around the world. Focused mostly on the art and science of singing voice and acting voice teaching, we’re determined to ensure the papers we agree to publish will all have practical value associated with them. This means that our journal’s readers, mostly singing and acting teachers, will be able to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills from reading the journal. Theoretical papers will be considered, however these should at least address the practical implications of the theory or concept being offered, in the education/teaching/learning context.

A new open access journal

We’re now in the process of establishing a new open access journal for researchers and research-practitioners to submit written articles to, for double-blind peer-review and potential publication. More details will be available here shortly, alongside our first Call for Papers. This should be ready by July 2025.

We will accept submissions including (but not limited to) scoping reviews and other literature reviews, conceptual papers, empirical papers, on any singing and/or acting performance or pedagogy related subjects. Topic areas include but are not limited to:

  • Singing and/or acting voice pedagogy (in any educational setting)

  • Voice science / vocology

  • Repertoire and style discussions

  • Singing voice/acting voice technique

  • Performance expression and emotion (e.g. interpretation)

  • Technologies relevant to the human voice

  • Choral singing

  • Topics relevant to commercial operation of teaching enterprises (e.g. studio teaching, arts management)

  • Community-based vocal arts performance or teaching

  • Vocal health, medicine and wellbeing

  • Psychology in relation to the human voice.

Interested in submitting a paper?

We’ll post full details here soon. In the meantime, please contact Professor Daniel Jess via our general contact form.