We're recruiting for a Research Fellow in Music Science. #music #cognition #computation #neuroscience #research Join us! @marcsinstitute.bsky.social au.smrtr.io/g3Vv

We’re recruiting a new, 5 year research-intensive Senior Research Fellow position @marcsinstitute.bsky.social @westernsydneyu.bsky.social Research expertise in the #neuroscience of #ageing and #dementia? Join us! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

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! 🎶👂🌎

📣 Call for Expressions of Interest 👇 The RNCM invites proposals from international early‑career researchers, particularly those addressing wind & brass band music, for the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships 2026. 📆 EoI deadline: 17 February 2026 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Deadline approaching soon: 28 February!! A postdoctoral research fellowship on gesture-vocalization interactions in three vocal performance traditions, based at the University of Oslo. If you have any questions about the position, please get in touch!

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!! 🎵👏🍾

Here is a link to the Webinar recording for the below funded PhDs youtu.be/HUyDgsRUePc

An exciting opportunity! sempre.org.uk/call-for-a-n...

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...

Fully funded #PhD at RNCM alert! RNCM + partners in the the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College are offering 30 AHRC studentships exploring care, creativity & community💡 💰 £20,780 stipend + fees covered 📅 EOI: 1 Dec 2025 👉 rncm.ac.uk/news #DoctoralFunding #MusicResearch

sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate... Do you know an outstandingly qualified candidate for PhD study in Music Psychology? Tell them about this scholarship opportunity to study with #musesmindmachine and the School of Languages Arts and Societies.

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...

Thanks to Steven Rimmer #ticketsforgood partner with @sparcsheffield.bsky.social and #musesmindmachine Investigating the social and emotional benefits of increased access to cultural participation.

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...

Three types of AI deals for voice talent are set out brilliantly by legal advisor Dr Mathilde Pavis of Replique. If you're a vocalist, musician or agent are you seeing similar new licensing deals emerging? youtu.be/webyIJUDXkc

🎺Final call to join our research centres and students for a collaborative showcase this Friday at 3pm. 🎺Please sign up in the link below and we'll send more info...

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...

Our MA and PhD Psychology of Music students have been doing collaborative research with local arts organisations, including #TicketsForGood. You're invited to join our showcase on 24 Oct, hosted jointly by our research centres, MMM and SPARC. Please sign up for event info: forms.gle/TqsNgfQQpPFF...

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

At Muses Mind Machine we're investigating how ecomusicking helps shape our environmental values, beliefs and behaviours Yesterday's www.bbc.co.uk/academy/live... and today's @granthamcsf.bsky.social symposium asks how individual and systemic change can shape the environmental choices we make.

Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!😁 Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen @ptoiviai.bsky.social, will give a talk titled "Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception". Read more here:

Fantastic insight on film and TV scoring from @gazelletwin.bsky.social Great music psych questions - scoring for the jumpscare; keeping musical consistency across TV series; working the temp music as mood cue... Thanks @sensoriafestival.bsky.social

Brilliant to welcome our new #MusicPsychology MA students to @sheffielduni.bsky.social this week. We asked them their favourite things about Sheffield so far: friendly people, green spaces, Chinese restaurants, and er, the weather 😎Good job we asked them yesterday!

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...