Lee Higgins is a professor at York St John University, UK and the Director of the International Centre of Community Music. His Ph.D. is from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Limerick, Ireland. As a presenter and guest speaker, he has worked on four continents in university, school, and NGO settings and was the President of International Society of Music Education from 2016 to 2018. He was the senior editor for the International Journal of Community Music (2007-2021), author of Community Music: In Theory and in Practice (2012, OUP),and Thinking Community Music (2024, OUP), co-author of Engagement in Community Music (2017, Routledge) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2018).