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The role of music psychology research in a complex world: Implications, applications and debates. Invited speaker: Prof. Alexandra Lamont (Keele University) The study of the musical mind its associated behaviours has become increasingly socially conscious, with more emphasis on applications and values, and calls to reflect on music(king)’s capacity to afford (inter)subjectivity and empathy; to...
On November 7th, the School of Music will host the second meeting of the Northern Network for Empirical Music Research (NEMuR). The network aims to increase communication and exchange between music psychology/empirical music research hubs in the North of England, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and inter-institution project development, and share good teaching practice (https://www.nemur.uk/). The...
We look forward to hosting a network event dedicated to ‘Evaluating the impact of music’. All welcome. 30 April 2019, 4.30-6.30pm School of Music, University of Leeds Guest speakers include Angela Harrison, Commissioner for Public Relations at the World Federation of Music Therapy, and Simon Glenister, Director at Noise Solution. All welcome. Please book your place via Eventbrite.
The recent All-Party Parliamentary Group Inquiry on Arts, Health and Wellbeing highlights that ‘the arts can help keep us well, aid our recovery and support longer lives better lived’ and ‘can help meet major challenges facing health and social care: ageing, long-term conditions, loneliness and mental health’. As the recent increase in research activity in...
The conference will bring together deaf musicians and music lovers, hearing aid (HA) users, audiologists, researchers and hearing aid manufacturers from across the globe. They will share their knowledge and experiences discuss current and emerging technologies benefiting music listening and performance, and share recent research findings through a mixture of presentations and workshops.
This event aims to be a celebration of Music Therapy, bringing together music therapy researchers and practitioners to report on the early stages of a research project which aims to understand the value of music therapy in local rural communities. The project is being funded by The Cultural Institute, University of Leeds and is being...