My Expertise
emotion and music; scientific study of music aesthetics
Fields of Research (FoR)
Music, PsychologySEO tags
Biography
.Research expertise includes:
- Emotion in music;
- Empirical aesthetics;
- Music health and wellbeing;
- Continuous response to music and dance;
- Cognitive modelling of aesthetic experience;
- Creativity
- Statistical analysis techniques applied to questions concerning empirical aesthetics
Teaching experience in nearly all music related courses.
Considerable Honours and postgraduate research supervision experience.
My Grants
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.Research expertise includes:
- Emotion in music;
- Empirical aesthetics;
- Music health and wellbeing;
- Continuous response to music and dance;
- Cognitive modelling of aesthetic experience;
- Creativity
- Statistical analysis techniques applied to questions concerning empirical aesthetics
Teaching experience in nearly all music related courses.
Considerable Honours and postgraduate research supervision experience.
My Grants
Please see https://boris.unsw.edu.au/login/
My Qualifications
PhD
My Awards
- Humanities, Arts & Literature - Individual Leader in Field of Music and Musicology (The Australian’s Research magazine) - twice (2020 and 2022)
- Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award (UNSW Australia) - twice
- ARC Future Fellowship (4 years)
- ARC Australian Research Fellowship (5 years)
- 10th Anniversary Award, European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
- UNSW Vice-Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship (3 awarded out of 132 applicants) (3 years)
- Thesis writing award for best PhD thesis in the Faculty ($10,000 cash prize).
- Alumni Award for Achievement, University of New South Wales, Alumni Association
My Research Activities
For convenient access to research outputs, please see this link to Google Scholar.
Or visit ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-8083.
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
At the broadest level, I supervised projects related to music and psychology. My students receive special support through automatic membership of the Empirical Musicology Laboratory, which provides them (1) with resources for conducting world class empirical investigations through the lab itself, in addition to various other spaces (recording studios, music technology laboratories, performance spaces etc.), specialist equipment, as well as (2) the Empirical Musicology research group where ideas and knowledge are shared and developed among members (students, staff and invited guests). Graduating students have had great success in finding or returning to careers. I have received supervision excellence awards.
Students have studied a wide range of topics with me. The summary below is not exhaustive.
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Creativity |
Computer composition of music |
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Synaesthesia, mental health and creativity |
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Music education |
Motivation to play music |
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Music perception |
Cross cultural communication of emotion in music |
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Music and emotion |
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Music and preference |
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Music and spirituality |
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Tracking emotional responses to music |
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Why can music be relaxing? |
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Perception of film music |
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Music performance |
Communication of conducting gestures |
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Decision making in music performance |
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Strategies used by elite musicians |
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Use of singer’s formant and vibrato in different styles of singing |
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What does it mean to be a musician? |
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Music, health and wellbeing |
Music and depression |
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Music and People with Dementia |
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Music Performance Anxiety reduction |
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Uses of background music |
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| Music and Sleep |
Currently supervising
In 2019 I supervised 4 postgraduate students and 3 honours.
If you are interested honours or postgraduate research in music psychology or a related area, and have sufficient qualifications, you are warmly invited to contact me. Scholarships may also be available.
My Teaching
Since 2017:
MUSC3102 - Psychology of Music
GENT0508 - Music on My Mind: Psychology and music
MUSC1604 Western Music: a Panorama
Guest lectures in Performance Laboratory classes.
In 2019:
MUSC4706 Music Ensembles
In 2017:
MUSC1603 - Materials and Structures 2
Past courses include:
MUSC2332 - Electronic Music
MUSC2113 - The Function of Music in Film (Dr John Peterson convener)
MUSC5138 - Method and Techniques (no longer available)
University of New South Wales Orchestra (replaced by MUSC4706 Music Ensembles)
Contact
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-8083
Related Links
FASS - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Science (University of New South Wales) homepage