Department of Music faculty, Brian Kaufman, presented on conducting pedagogy at Oxford University as part of the 2016 Oxford Conducting Institute. The conference explored issues pertaining to the study of conducting from a range of perspectives by bringing together research across a variety of disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology. The aim of the conference was to engage conductors in productive dialogue, promote practice as research, and raise awareness of the state of research in the field of conducting.