News - Royal Northern College of Music
Keep up to date with the latest news and announcements from the Royal Northern College of Music.
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
06.11.2025 10:16 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA)
Applications to the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award at the University of Sheffield are open for 2026/27 entry.
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.
06.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Thanks to Steven Rimmer #ticketsforgood partner with @sparcsheffield.bsky.social and #musesmindmachine Investigating the social and emotional benefits of increased access to cultural participation.
24.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
24.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Dr Mathilde Pavis
3 Types of AI Deals Every Agent & Talent Must Understand
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
22.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎺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...
22.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference – Sempre
The 2026 Sempre PGR/ECR Conference will take place on Thursday, 16 April 2026, at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, with online participation avail
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...
13.10.2025 09:44 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
We'd love you to join us if you're part of a Sheffield arts organisation who would like to work with our students in this way. Or if you're a potential student who would like to hear more about collaborative dissertations. Please complete our short form and we'll send joining details.
14.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Collaborative research showcase
Thanks for your interest in joining our music psychology collaborative research showcase on Friday 24th October, 3.00-4.30pm. Please add your contact details below and tell us a bit about your interes...
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...
14.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!
10.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 2 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Climate Creatives 2025 presented by BBC Academy Live
A conference to spark and inspire compelling climate storytelling which took place on 7 October, live from the Royal Geographical Society.
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.
08.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Embodied Dynamics of Metre Perception
- RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, Petri Toiviainen, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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:
08.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
YouTube video by The University of Sheffield Player
How AI Is changing music: creativity, copyright, and the future of songwriting
youtu.be/9S6x_R9pJQA?...
07.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
03.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of the BBC Weather forecast for Sheffield, showing 'Gusty winds and heavy rain'
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!
01.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
22.08.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Become a mentor
Registration to be a mentor in 2026 is now open! Arts Emergency mentors support young people in Greater Manchester, London and Merseyside who are interested in the creative and cultural industries and...
📢 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...
06.08.2025 09:31 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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...
28.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely memories here of the wonderful @jayteetang.bsky.social and his time in Sheffield with @musicpsychshef.bsky.social We'll really miss you!!
16.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
16.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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.
04.06.2025 11:17 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
Congratulations to our brilliant @accessfolk.bsky.social colleagues on their team prize for open research @openresshef.bsky.social 🍾🎵
30.06.2025 11:57 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Studienorganisation
Chiffre PSY-SPORT-15172
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...
23.06.2025 08:02 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
What great programming @sysmus.bsky.social organising committee: Katarina Henttonen gives her paper on scary music, today, Friday 13th 👻😉
13.06.2025 09:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Community musician and PhD researcher in Music Psychology
Research at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) asks fundamental questions regarding the nature of music and musicianship in the 21st century.
www.rncm.ac.uk/research
Post graduate researcher in Music, University of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/music/pgr/6337/sarah-dunn
Chair/founder of Accessible Inclusive Music (AIM) www.accessibleinclusivemusic.org.uk
The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
One of the UK's leading promoters of chamber music. Based in Sheffield at the unique Crucible Playhouse
@crucibletheatre
- Box Office 0114 249 6000
www.musicintheround.co.uk/whats-on
Composer | Piano Teacher | Sheffield Viola Ensemble | First Position Strings
http://www.jennyjacksoncomposer.com/
@sheffviolaensemble.bsky.social
@1stposstrings.bsky.social
Composer | Professor of Composition, University of South Carolina School of Music | Fan of science | Defender of the Oxford comma | All views my own | https://www.johnfitzrogers.com
We aim to understand which factors can shape the aesthetic experience and the learning process, from knowledge transfer to episodic memories, to epistemic emotions.
🌐 https://iwm-tuebingen.de/en/research/labs/ag3_specker
✅ https://iwm-tuebingen.de/en/legal
Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science at the Royal College of Music, London. Researcher and educator interested in music and mental health. Founder and co-lead of the Music and Parental Wellbeing Research Network.
UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve Grassroots Music Venues.
Exploring ways to increase and diversify participation with folk singing in England.
PhD Student in the Empirical Visual Aesthetics Lab (EvaLab @evalabs.bsky.social) at the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at)
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/anna.lena.knoll/
https://instagram.com/gluggavedur
This is the official page of the EVAlabs (Empirical Visual Aesthetics) of the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at)
https://eva.univie.ac.at/
https://www.instagram.com/eva_lab_vienna/
https://linktr.ee/evalabvienna
Musician, upper school music educator, researcher exploring the power of musical improvisation in cognition and education. Based in Milan (IT).
PhD researcher 👩🔬
Cognitive neuroscientist 🧠
Brain-body interaction 🫀🫁🧠
Lifespan development 👵
Music cognition!!! 🎹🎵🎶
Science communicator #scicomm
Working at:
MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig
MPI for Human Development, Berlin
#musicscience Postgraduate Researcher (PhD cand.) at Uni of Leeds, passionate about electronic dance music, well-being, emotion & musical embodiment. 🕺🎶
https://linktr.ee/j_w_cannon
I’m Toria, hi! DClinPsy University Teacher; Clinical Psychologist; gay woman; mum. Sheffield, UK. 🏳️🌈 she/her
Assistant Prof. of Psychology @ American University in Bulgaria. #AffectSci #Music #Cognition #musicscience
We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
