Rate My Professor Suzanne Wijsman

At UWA, she has held leadership roles such as Chair of Strings (2015-2021) and current Chair of Lower Strings (2021-present), along with Graduate Research Coordinator (2000-2006, 2015) and Teaching and Learning Coordinator (2008-2009). Her research specializations encompass musicians’ performance health, musicians' health literacy, health promotion in music teaching, and musical iconography in medieval Hebrew manuscripts and early modern Jewish sources. She developed the internationally adopted Sound Performers online course in 2012, which addresses posture, injury prevention, and performance psychology, and led the Musicians’ Health National Curriculum Initiative in 2009. Wijsman has supervised numerous postgraduate and honours students to completion and collaborates internationally, including forming the Musicians Health Literacy Consortium in 2018. Key publications include “Educating Australian musicians: are we playing it safe?” (2019, Medical Problems of Performing Artists), “Uncovering the Oppenheimer Siddur: using scientific analysis to explore scribal and artistic processes” (2018, Heritage Science), “On a Harp of Ten Strings I Will Sing Praises to You: Envisioning Women and Music in the Oppenheimer Siddur” (2023), and contributions to Resounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art, Music and Sound (2015). Among her honors are the Polonsky Visiting Researcher Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2020) and Fulbright Award. Her work has significantly impacted music education and performer health globally.