Lee Higgins is the Director of the International Centre for Community Music based at York St. John University, UK.
He has experience across education and health sectors, prison and probation services, youth and community, adult education, and arts organizations. 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) and author of Community Music: In Theory and in Practice (2012, Oxford University Press), co-author of Engaging in Community Music (2017, Routledge) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2018).