Thank you @uomsalc.bsky.social! I’m exciting to be joining you!

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures@uomsalc.bsky.social · last mo.

A very warm welcome to you, @michelle-phillips.bsky.social!

The news is out! After 15 wonderful years at the Royal Northern College of Music, I’m excited to be taking up the role of Director of Creative Manchester at The University of Manchester. @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social

Creative Manchester@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · last mo.

Prof @michelle-phillips.bsky.social appointed as new Director of Creative Manchester, & Professor of Music She will lead the strategic direction & development of the University’s Creative Manchester interdisciplinary research platform. 🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/c... @uomsalc.bsky.social

It was a joy being part of the judging panel for the Manchester Cathedral bell chime competition Congratulations to James Nissen, whose wonderful chime was based on Ewan MacColl’s ‘The Manchester Rambler’ Thank you BBC News North West Tonight for covering this special moment for Manchester! ⛪️ 🔔 🏆

Huge congratulations Dan (and also to Abbigail!)! Dan’s work with us at @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social is awe inspiring, and brings together composition with music psychology and neuroscience, all represented in real world concert hall performances. Bravo Dan, we’re so proud! 🍾

Music Psychology Lab - Durham@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 @sysmus.bsky.social is dedicating 2 extended talk slots to the authors of this year’s highest‑scoring abstracts Congratulations 🥂 to the Student Award winners: Dan Baczkowski @rncmresearch.bsky.social & Abbigail Fleckenstein @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social #musicpsych #ECR #PHD

Systematic review advice needed please! 📝 🧮 🧪 Has anyone used any quality rating assessment tools in a systematic review or seen good papers that do? I’m trying to establish: 1) how common is this? 2) what quality tools are used (CASP?)? 3) is this becoming best practice? Thanks in advance!

What an honor to be invited to deliver the keynote talk at the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory this weekend in The Hague. Here’s to collaboration, sharing of ideas, and working across boundaries - disciplinary and geographical. @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

FOURTH JOB! We're hiring a 2-year Early Career Development Fellow in Jazz and Popular Music! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/140186-...

Early Career Development Fellowship in Jazz and Popular Music | King's College London

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We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham

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Stimulating week on this BPM Rehab research project with DJ Mark One, Dr Penny Trayner & Charlotte Naylor The project explores how immersive training environments influence DJ education for individuals with neurodisability or neurodivergent profiles @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

Study from MUSICOTAS: www.jyu.fi/en/projects/..., with @dana-and-monsters.bsky.social , @pattinijhuis.bsky.social, @js.bamford.id.au , lead by Martin Hartmann. Consortium with @vtt.fi

MUSICOTAS 2025-2029

Musical Sharing In Copresent Time And Space

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News page from our university about a group interview study we just launched! Feel free to share. We are looking for people based in Finland, fluent in English, 18+. www.jyu.fi/en/news/what... #musicresearch #musicscience

What makes a concert unforgettable? Researchers are looking for people to share their experiences of in-person and streamed music concerts

Researchers are looking for both music fans and musicians to share what makes concerts meaningful and special.

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Soooooooo honoured and over the moon to be a finalist in the Northern Power Women Awards! Here’s to all the inspiring powerful Northern women in my life! 😍 💪

We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Over the moon to win the Alan Turning Award at last night’s ’I Love Manchester’ ceremony, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals & organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking’ 😃 🏆 Our @rncmlive.bsky.social students rocked the stage with their 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

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“Manchester has been a musical explosion!” -John Adams after the concert ‘Hallé Chamber Series: John Adams Chamber Symphony’ just now at our @rncmlive.bsky.social with Hallé & RNCM musicians Awesome performances & a wonderful chance for our incredible students to work with this musical legend!

What a special opportunity tonight - to see & hear John Adams conducting his music with the awesome Halle orchestra at the wonderful @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social! Excited about tomorrow when John Adams visits us for 2 performances of his music @rncmlive.bsky.social www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Great to deliver this KTP50 talk today! Thanks Sinead (MMU), Clare (Uni of Manc Innovation Factory) & Paul (Uni of Salford) It’s been fab to work on our CCF RED TTO project funded by Research England on IP, commercialisation & consultancy @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social #KTP2025

🧠 🎵 🪩 New blog post by me & Jason Taylor: 🪩 🎵 🧠 @canadianjason.bsky.social www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/self-es... We had the utter joy of seeing @selfesteem.music-social.com ‘s ‘A Complicated Woman’ show-Great to see what we know from our research on live music in action! #AComplicatedWoman

Self Esteem and the power of live music (by Michelle Phillips and Jason Taylor)

“All the days you get to have are big”So broadcast the poster that many of us left gig venues around the UK with recently - a reminder of the joy of each day, and of living life to the full. But it’s ...

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What a wonderful talk this was - utterly stimulating, & so relevant & important to everything we do at @rncmlive.bsky.social. And a brill evening in great company, thanks Ian and David (you were with us in spirit, Katya!). Fab to round off with whiskey with Ian & Jason @canadianjason.bsky.social

RNCM Research@rncmresearch.bsky.social · 10mo ago

At 4.15pm today, Professor Ian Cross, Dr David Duncan, and Katya Ness will share their Leverhulme-funded Score Design for Music Reading project with us at the RNCM (@rncmlive.bsky.social) in our Research Forum. You can join us for this too – details in the link below. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

🧠 🎵 Great to talk to John Pienaar on Times Radio today about this amazing story of Denise, who played her clarinet while undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery to help with her Parkinson’s symptoms: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🎵 🧠 @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

🌟 We’re hiring! 🌟 Are you interested in memory, cognitive training, & healthy ageing? We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ814/r... 👉 0.5 FTE (2.5 days/week), 4 months (likely from 01/26) 👉 Annual salary £32,080 to £33,002 (pro-rata) 👉 Based in Sheffield, UK

Research Assistant - Cognitive Ability & Plasticity Lab at University of Sheffield

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🎵 ☠️ New blog: Music in Traitors Mansion ☠️ 🎵 “As we romp merrily through this awesome series, we have a rich chance to acknowledge & celebrate what music does for us, & for everyone who’s Faithful to this bananas & mesmerising show” #CelebrityTraitors www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/music-i...

Music in Traitors Mansion

It’s finally here, and it’s bigger than ever - Celebrity Traitors. And all of the rumours about the A-list line up of players were true. What a show we’re in for!The first two episodes, broadcast this...

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🏆 😃 🏆 Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood. If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

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Incredible Music, Movement, Mood & Parkinson’s symposium at @hslu-luzern.bsky.social Switzerland, led by the magnificent Prof Dawn Rose. Here, Jane talked about our concerts in Lucerne & @rncmlive.bsky.social Very proud to have been invited to be part of the final panel! @beamlab.bsky.social

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

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Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!

Chuffed that our music and Parkinson’s paper on ‘The Use of Music Among Swiss People with Parkinson’s: A Mixed Methods Survey and Comparison to the UK Findings’ led by the wonderful Prof Dawn Rose and with lots of fab collaborators, is now out! #PPI #Parkinsons journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some photos of @kateywarran.bsky.social speaking at The Royal Institution @rigb.org alongside @michelle-phillips.bsky.social @rosielperkins.bsky.social & Ming Hsu for the ABRSM symposium