Congratulations to Sheffield PhD graduate @ehmacgregor.bsky.social on another new article - very useful comparison of the thinking behind music education policy in England and Wales; timely for GCSE results week!

📢 CALLING ALL CREATIVES!!! WE NEED YOU!!! If you can spare JUST 1 hour a month to meet with a young person to share your experience, insights & be that first connection into the profession, please sign up to mentor in 2026! Applications close 29 Sep. 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...

Hot off the press! 📄 My new publication from my doctoral research is out! Big thanks to Edison Tan, Shen Li, @neuroceutical.bsky.social & Chi-Ying Cheng; grateful to Nikki Dibben, Renee Timmers & WRoCAH for their support! #MusicPsychology #CrossCulturalResearch doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Lovely memories here of the wonderful @jayteetang.bsky.social and his time in Sheffield with @musicpsychshef.bsky.social We'll really miss you!!

JOIN THE MUSIC IN THE ROUND TEAM! We are recruiting for a new MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR ⏰ Full-time, 5 days/week (35hrs) 📈 £24,150 📍 Sheffield Interested?More info and link below #Wearehiring #Artsjobs #Charityjobs

FANS CALLED TO PROTECT THE FUTURE OF LIVE MUSIC For the first time, Parliament has launched a fan-led review into live music, placing the voices of fans at the centre of efforts to protect the UK’s grassroots music venues.

Congratulations to our brilliant @accessfolk.bsky.social colleagues on their team prize for open research @openresshef.bsky.social 🍾🎵

Thrilled to share my paper on ethical considerations in international service-learning in music therapy, now published! 🙏Grateful to Sanna & Taru for editing this special issue. Let's keep striving to be the most ethical versions of ourselves. doi.org/10.56883/aij...

Two articles published in one week! One on #singing with the wonderful @sparcsheffield.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social and one on #vulnerability from my recent research at @somervillecollege.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social. 🎵 doi.org/10.1386/ijcm... ✏️ doi.org/10.1177/1468...

JOB OFFER: 4-year PostDoc position in the field of music psychology. Join us at the University of Innsbruck, in the heart of Austrian Alps! lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...

What great programming @sysmus.bsky.social organising committee: Katarina Henttonen gives her paper on scary music, today, Friday 13th 👻😉

Lovelt to see Joy (Yue You) from @musicpsychshef.bsky.social also presenting at @sysmus.bsky.social today

Not only does Jaytee Tang have his PhD viva today, he is presenting! @sysmus.bsky.social

Keynote Prof Anja Volk @sysmus.bsky.social Great examples of computational and cognitive musicology informing creative and health applications, and raising great questions about explainable AI.

P.S. If you haven’t registered yet, head over to the registration tab in the website and sign up. See you there!

Great start to @sysmus.bsky.social 25 with a keynote on ecomusiking from Prof. Nicola Dibben @musicpsychshef.bsky.social Looking forward to great collection of presentations and posters @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social!!

Congratulations Jenni MacRitchie, Justin Christensen and team on 4 years of the Music, Dementia, Technology project. Great to see so many partners celebrating the shared musical, technological life enhancing activities and learning from working together.

Lovely funded PhD project over at RNCM www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Bravo to @keetjeellis.bsky.social and @eiscoo.bsky.social for their contributions to this brilliant gig. Great to see Kate's research on experiences of homelessness, and Emily's on benefits of singing put into joyful action!

Happy 25th Birthday 'Common People'! Professor Nicola Dibben discusses the cultural, psychological and musical significance of the brilliant, angry, witty, anthemic, class-divide track by Sheffield band Pulp with BBC reporter Simon Thrake and BBC Radio Sheffield Radio. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are very proud of Jonathan (Jaytee) Tang whose paper was joint winner of the Hickman award at the SEMPRE conference in Manchester. His research investigates how self-construal shapes affective experiences with music cross-culturally. @jayteetang.bsky.social

Thinking about a postdoctoral research project in Sheffield in the area of Psychology of Music? Submit your expression of interest and benefit from feedback and training! Deadline is 2nd of June. Apply using this form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our researchers have been co-designing this new mini film about music alongside people living with young-onset dementia. It aims to challenge stereotypes of music being used as part of living well with dementia. Tickets for the premiere & discussion here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-wit...

Very excited to see the work of recently graduated PhD student, Dr Persefoni Tzakani published in Frontiers in Psychology. Involving 144 Greek children, the study tests the role of trait and situational empathy in synchronisation. Check it out to learn more! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Great to meet incoming students for our music psychology MA courses at the online open day last week. Still time to apply if you'd like to join them! Distance learning option for students wanting to study part-time, and a full-time course in Sheffield www.sheffield.ac.uk/las/postgrad...

Delighted to be in this new book with brilliant collaborators Sarah Price and Helen Freshwater. Our chapter investigates the idea of distributed fandom through frequent theatre attendance, drawing on our @ukri.org funded Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts project 🎭 🎵

We speak over 120 languages in Sheffield! Now, the vibrant multilingualism of the city where they call you love has been recognised as part of the City of Languages initiative. Read more 👇 www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/sheffie...

We're hoping to get in touch with some of our past music psychology MA graduates who have studied with us part-time or by distance learning to help us with a small piece of research. We know there are loads of you, so if you're out there in the blue skies, give us a follow so we can find you! 👋

Calling student members, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty in #musicscience 📣 Our Early Career Researchers’ Group (ECRG) is being established to provide support, networking, and mentorship across institutions and countries. Join up below!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Remembering a brilliant #SheffieldPhD graduation earlier this year - not just one new Dr in Psychology of Music, but four!! www.sheffield.ac.uk/muses-mind-m...

Big news for Dr Jenni MacRitchie and her collaborators on funding for the new BRIDGES for Dementia network, which aims to boost the use and development of novel tools and technologies enabling people with dementia to remain independent at home for longer. www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/harness...

We're recruiting now for our MA programmes in #MusicPsychology available in onsite and online formats. Do get in touch if you'd like to come and join us! www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/postgr...

Congrats to #SheffieldPhD @ehmacgregor.bsky.social on great presentations at #SEMPRE and #RIME conferences

Lovely to catch up with so many @sheffielduni.bsky.social friends at #sempre last week!

Sheffield #MusicPsych staff and students have had a busy Easter conference season! Here are some of us at #SEMPRE - a few absent friends were missing for the photo shoot! Congrats to @jayteetang.bsky.social on his brilliant Hickman paper

Congrats to #Sheffield PhD @persatz.bsky.social on her latest journal article 👏📚

Reaching for the #BlueSky on a sunny day in Sheffield! Stand by for updates from / about our staff team and brilliant students #PsychologyofMusic #MusicScience #MusicEducation #Performance #Wellbeing #MusicCognition