Resources

General overviews of music psychology research

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• Thompson, 'Music, Thought and Feeling' 

• Hallam, Cross and Thaut (eds.) 'The Oxford Guide to Music Psychology'

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Music acoustics

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• Campbell, M., and Greated, C. (2001), The Musician's Guide to Acoustics (Oxford, OUP)

• Music Acoustics, Physics, Science, UNSW

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Statistics

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• Andrew Stewart's (free) 'Andrew's Workshops on R, Open Research, and Reproducibility'

• Free online 'Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals'

• Stanford University 'Intro to Statistics' (free)

• Open University 'Bayesian Statistics' (free)

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Tips on sharing research

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• Article in 'Nature' on 'How sharing your science in an opinion piece can boost your career'

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News and online content

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• Guardian (2023), 'A mega-mechanism for bonding’: why singing together does us good'

• Financial Times (2022), 'Ruth Slenczynska, 97, on her nine-decade career at the piano'

• Guardian (2022), 'Mary Beard: ‘If we want to understand what we went through in the pandemic, we need the arts’

• Irons, Yoon (2021), 'My essential reads: the value of group singing'

• Classic FM (2021), 'We have proved we are trailblazers’ – inspiring women of Edinburgh International Festival share hopes for classical music' ["Music is what links humans to their humanity"]

• Audience of the Future (2020), 'Immersive audience report'

• BBC (2024) Izzy Judd: 'Music let my brother in a coma connect with us'

• Map of journal articles connected to the theme of social prescribing in the arts

• Honing, H. (2024) article in Scientific American on 'It Turns Out We Were Born To Groove: The evolution of beat perception likely unfolded gradually among primates, reaching its pinnacle in humans'

• Jennifer L.W. Fink, Pfizer (2024). 'Why — and How — Music Moves Us'

• Smith, Andy (BBC, 2019) 'Five reasons why everyone should have music in their lives'

• Pidd, Helen (2021, The Guardian). '‘Spiritual medicine’: orchestra helps people with dementia write music [featuring Manchester Camerata]

• Claudia López Lloreda (Science News, 2021). 'A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories: Music can change emotions in people with dementia, even if they don’t remember hearing it'

• Charlotte Duck (The Guardian, 2023), From developing our brains to keeping us healthy: the positive effects of art

• Eric W. Dolan (2024), New psychology research sheds light on the mystery of music enjoyment

• Adam Szabo (2024), How to … create intimate and intense ‘classical music’ experiences

• Robyn Vinter (The Guardian, 2024), Playing a musical instrument or singing is linked to better memory in older age

• The Mirage (2024), Music May Lower Depression in Dementia Patients: Study

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Resources relating to music and the environment

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• The Strad (2023) article on Vulva Voce string quartet: 'String quartet swaps planes for trains on sustainable European tour'

• RNCM resources on music and the environment as part of their 'The Future is Green' theme 2023-24

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Music psychology organisations

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ESCOM - ESCOM is an international non-profit society to promote theoretical, experimental and applied research in the cognitive sciences of music.

 

SMPC - a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of music cognition.

 

ICMPC - The International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) is an interdisciplinary conference devoted to the dissemination of new, unpublished research relating to the field of music perception and cognition.

 

NEMuR - the Northern Network for Empirical Music Research (NEMuR).  NEMuR is a group of researchers in the North of England who are engaged in empirical research that is on, with, or for music and musicians.

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SEMPRE The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research, which embraces research in both music education and music psychology.

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Music organisations

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• Manchester Camerata

• Manchester Collective

• Independent Society of Musicians

• Music Mark

• UK Music - see especially the 'This is Music' report 2023

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Other useful resources:

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• Bigger Better Brains website - 'We empower music educators with our knowledge and tools'

• Music Education Works

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Music and psychology researchers sharing their work on social media

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• Prof Alex Lamont

• Dr Jessica Grahn

• Dr Jason Taylor

• Dr Psyche Loui

• Prof Stefan Koelsch

• Prof Henkjan Honing

• Prof Dawn Rose

• Dr Ellen Poliakoff (BEAM Lab Manchester)

• Dr Will Young

• Prof Stephanie Pitts (SPARC)

• Prof Rachel Cowgill

• Dr Duncan Williams

• Prof Trevor Cox

• Prof Pam Burnard

• Dr Sarah Price

• Dr Neta Spiro

• Dr Claire Howlin

• Dr Amanda Krause

• Prof Genevieve Dingle

• Dr Ioanna Filippidi

• Prof Nikki Dibben

• Dr Daisy Fancourt

• Prof Rosie Perkins

• Dr Nicola Pennill

• Dr Keith Phillips

• Dr Julia Haferkorn

• Dr Tuula Jääskeläinen

• Dr Raluca Matei

• Dr Kelly Jakubowski

• Prof Jane Ginsborg

• Prof Peter Keller

• Dr Dana Swarbrick

• Dr Mats Kuessner

• Dr Jonna Vuoskoski

• Prof Alexander Refsum Jensenius

• Dr Niels Chr. Hansen

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For tips for those beginning a PhD click here.

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