Newsflash: Bulletin of Empirical Music Education Research
Dear readers and authors,
Autumn 2025 marks the beginning of a new phase of editorial work for Bulletin of Empirical Music Education Research. We are delighted to announce two important changes that will further advance our journal as a collaborative academic project.
1. New editorial structure
Starting in November, we will be expanding our editorial structure: In addition to the four editors in chief, the team will be joined by eight co-editors who will support us in publishing individual articles and communicating with reviewers and authors: Prof. Dr. Thade Buchborn, Dr. Julia Ehninger, Prof. Dr. Juliane Gerland, Dr. Daniela Neuhaus, Prof. Dr. Anne Niessen, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Puffer, Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Tralle, and Prof. Dr. Johannes Treß. We would like to thank them all for their willingness to take on this task and look forward to working with them. All of our colleagues contribute with specific content and methodological expertise from different areas of empirical music education research.
With the new editorial structure, we aim to:
- make editorial processes more transparent and efficient,
- further sharpen the journal's methodological profile,
- strengthen professional quality and peer review through pooled expertise,
- and establish contributions to empirical music education more firmly as a joint project of the scientific community.
2. Application for inclusion in the DOAJ
Another step in this direction is our application for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). With this step, we aim to increase the visibility and findability of the contributions and further promote open access to quality-assured research in music education.
With warm regards,
Valerie Krupp, Michael Göllner, and Andreas Lehmann-Wermser
