Just signed up for this summer's graduation ceremony, looking forward to celebrating with our undergraduates and new PhDs. Good time to share this photo of some of last year's MA Psychology of Music graduates - places left for 2026 entry if you'd like to join them! sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Want to teach your undergrad Honors students or early grad students about peer review, but not sure how? 🤔 We'll do it for free! We're offering free peer review workshops for departments, ideal for advanced undergrad/early grad seminars in Psych, Neuro, and related fields. See below for details!

Had a wonderful visit to sunny Maastricht last week, delivering a keynote at the 'Breaking the Classical Frame' conference of MCICM, and sharing in the retirement celebrations of Prof Peter Peters, with fancy dress as a Dutch professor 👀👩‍🎓 Geweldig leuk!!

Looking to Spring clean some space on your shelves? Check out Bookloop, our new service where you can trade your pre-loved books for store credit. bookloop.webuybooks.co.uk

Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

It's an absolute scandal that @artscouncilengland.bsky.social, through their National Portfolio, spend just £6.59 per person in Sheffield, compared to £44.60 in Manchester and £35.65 in Leeds. Our city deserves better! Great piece in @nowthenmag.bsky.social by @benjamintassie.bsky.social 👇

New monthly happening in Hillsborough with a concert, singing session, tunes and signalong songs. First night's guest is Martin Simpson. Hillsborough Park Pavillion 9 May. More info and tickets: share.google/aFIa0JUysy4A...

Thanks to Emily Cooper, MA graduate and current PhD student, for this lovely account of her time on our MA Psychology of Music. Apply now for 2026 entry if you'd like to follow in her footsteps 👣👣👣 singing-in-balance.blogspot.com/2026/03/psyc...

Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

🎵 Registration is open for the 2026 SEMPRE Conference on #MusicScience and #MusicPsychology at Cambridge University (CMS + MMB) on 16 April 2026. Talks and posters from early career researchers, a keynote by Dr Marcus Pearce, and many opportunities to connect with others. Website: lnkd.in/eEQPKr5Q

Our Grantham Scholars have been presenting research at our Methods@Sheffield event this week! The twist - they have to present the work of another scholar from an entirely different discipline! Well done to all our scholars who did a great job 👏 Read about the event here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/j3xpa6nz

Exciting funded PhD opportunity at RHUL on Emerging Technologies in Music: Implications for Musicians and Audiences www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Lovely to join the Grantham Scholars for their interdisciplinary methods exchange today. Forgot to take a photo so am recycling this one, which feels very on-brand ♻️ Exciting ideas emerging with my PhD student @jennmac42.bsky.social and her newfound collaborators, so watch this space! 🎶👂🌎

Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Looking forward to my next visit to Maastricht in April, to join the wonderful MCICM team for their conference on 'Rethinking Relevance' in classical music. Registration now open if you'd like to come too! www.aanmelder.nl/170913

Considering psychology of music? Have a look at Sheffield.

"Behind the Scenes" is a new online seminar series on how research papers actually get made: from early ideas and methods to revisions and publication. Next up: Nihar Shah on peer review (Wed 4 Feb). More info: www.bts-seminar.net

Huge congratulations to our new Dr @emrisley.bsky.social shown here impressing her cute dog Sky with her thesis on the psychological cost of a musical theatre performance career! 🥰I've loved being Emma's supervisor and learned a lot - all supervisions should include recent theatre debriefs!! 🎵👏🍾

PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

Milne is in the spotlight thanks to some amazing reporting from The Sheffield Tribune: buff.ly/8ZTPmDL

Job alert! 12-week paid research placement supervised by me & colleagues at NTU and Nottingham Castle. The researcher will investigate the provenance, cultural meanings, and history of display of African instruments in Nottingham Castle's collection. collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/echoes-of-em...

📢 We're hiring a Research Coordinator! This new full-time position based in either Newcastle or London will support the delivery of Creative PEC’s high-profile research programme and our championing of the UK’s creative industries. Find out more and apply: pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...

Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!🥳 Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will give a talk titled "Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo". Read more here: www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...

Please take a look at our new 🗝️open access🗝️ article based on @sparcsheffield.bsky.social research at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, Peterborough Sings! and funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1177/0255...

A one-day event confronting the socio-economic deficit in the classical music industry. www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/concerts-cal...

Excited to be part of this new journal, now welcoming original research on all aspects of live music, across genres, locations, methods and disciplines. Take a look, share with colleagues, and send us your brilliant research! www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-l...

Hearing about the diverse collaborative dissertations our MA students in Psychology of Music have completed in the last few years and some of the new collaborations and research problems students can engage in this academic year. Come join our MA Psychology of Music sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Save the date: the 2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference will be held on Thursday, 16 April 2026 at the University of Cambridge. The conference is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers (PGRs & ECRs) working in music psychology and music education. Learn more: sempre.org.uk/conference/2...

Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions: www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-... www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat... Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…

funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!

We’re hiring 💡 We’re looking for a Project Manager (Families) to develop and manage events for families at Wigmore Hall ✨ Find out more and apply here: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/about-us/jobs/project-manager-families Deadline: 9.00am on Tuesday 21 October

The ISM is deeply concerned about government's decision to scrap the music Initial Teacher Training bursary. Bursaries are a lifeline for aspiring music teachers. If DfE are serious about hitting its recruitment targets, this is a huge step backwards ⬇️ www.ism.org/news/governm...

Apply to be a University Teacher in Music Technology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT479/u...

Who do you know that would be excellent at this job. Please nudge them to apply, everyone needs a cheerleader! Policy Engagement Lead @uniofbath.bsky.social PART TIME - 0.6 FTE starting from £47,389 pro rata #SciPol www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

Job opp - full-time Project Officer at U of Huddersfield. Support the admin needs of research staff and PGRs on the Amplification Project. Grade 6 (£32,363 - £39,132 per annum), fixed-term ending Jan 2030. Apply by 1st Oct here: vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

🗣️ SEMPRE Student Study Day: sempre.org.uk/conference/s... Wednesday, 26 November 2025 11.00am-2.00pm GMT Room 938, Institute of Education, UCL and online Proposals due Wed, 1 Oct 2025 Contact: Proposals to Eunice Tang ([email protected]), cc Professor Graham F Welch ([email protected])

Applications for grants of £500 for folk artists to support anything that will help their professional career development. Apply before midnight on 19 October. bit.ly/4nm60RD Image shows previous awardee Suntou Susso

I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting to three new roles in the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk’s senior team. Take a look if you want to help us grow our impact & develop our brilliant research (details of the Academy Director role will be up next week) 👇 micro.green-park.co.uk/ifg/

✨ Remember the first person who encouraged you when you were starting out? You can be that person for a young person struggling to get access to opportunities that will help them pursue their creative ambitions. Sign up to mentor in 2026 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 @kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900. SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665 SHARE!!!

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

I'd really recommend the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career... ) - you don't need an affiliation to join, but you get access to free workshops & events (the network pays for travel to its own events), & to funding and grants!

#JobFairy University of Birmingham is looking for a Director of Culture, Collections and Public Engagement - senior hire at Grade 10 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Big news. The Royal Albert Hall has just become the first 5,000+ capacity arena to permanently adopt the £1 grassroots levy on all commercial rock and pop shows from October 2025 - a move that could raise £300,000 a year to support the foundations of the UK’s live music scene.

I’m hiring a lab manager for my new music cognition lab at Cornell. I’m also looking to recruit PhD students and postdocs next year. I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025—feel free to reach out or spread the word for relevant candidates.