Dr Una MacGlone is Head of MA Arts Leadership and Fundraising and Creative Arts Practice. She held a prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh (2021-2024) and was also Lecturer of Music there (2024-2025).

She has research interests in improvisation, pedagogy and social and wellbeing effects of creative music-making. She is co-editor of an anthology: Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy (2019), published by Routledge and is Associate Editor of Psychology of Music (2025→). Her research uses person-centred and mixed-methods approaches to develop understandings of creativity and interdisciplinary settings. Her postdoc investigated processes of inclusion in and wellbeing impacts from community music workshops with children and young people with additional support needs. Una is also an experienced creative educator particularly with Early Years and individuals with additional support needs.

She is a double bassist performing across genres and has played on over 20 commercially released recordings. As founder member of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO), she devises pieces using improvisation as the central creative process. She has an international profile as a teacher of free improvisation, and has given workshops and lectured across Europe and North America.

Una is second supervisor for three students at UoE. Projects include improvisation pedagogy in Higher Education; instrument design for the elderly using AI and wellbeing impacts of orchestral music participation for adolescents in China.