Research Groups

In addition to our wide-ranging research activities, we have several groups across Australia that have different foci of research at the nexus of psychology and music.

New South Wales

Western Sydney University

The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development

See here for a list of MARCS seminars.

Music Cognition and Action
Group led by:

Professor Peter Keller

Members:

Professor Kate Stevens
Professor Roger Dean
Dr Sandra Garrido
Dr Jennifer MacRitchie
Dr Bronson Harry
Dr Andrew Milne

Macquarie University

Music, Sound and Performance Lab
Group led by:

Professor Bill Thompson; Founding Director: Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise, and Training
Members:
- Dr Kirk Olsen
- Dr Amee Baird (NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellow; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle; Clinical Neuropsychologist)

University of New South Wales

Empirical Musicology
Group led by:

Professor Emery Schubert
Professor Dorottya Fabian

Music Acoustics
Group led by:

Professor Joe Wolfe
Members:
- Emeritus Professor John R. Smith

Music Education
Group led by:

Dr Paul Evans

Queensland

The University of Queensland

Psychology of Music
Group led by:

Dr Mary Broughton
Members:
- Associate Professor Denis Collins

Applied Psychology of Music
Group led by:

Associate Professor Genevieve Dingle
Members:
- Dr Elyse Williams

Music Learning and Development Across the Lifespan
Group led by:

Professor Margaret Barrett
Members:
- Dr Mary Broughton
- Dr Vicky Abad
- Dr Libby Flynn

Music Education
Group led by:

Associate Professor Julie Ballantyne

James Cook University

Psychology of Music
Group led by:

Dr Amanda Krause

Victoria

University of Melbourne

Music Psychology
Group led by:

Professor Gary McPherson
Professor Sarah Wilson
Professor Jane Davidson
Members:
- Dr Margaret Osbourne
- Dr Solange Glasser
- Dr Yi Ting Tan

Research Initiative in Creativity and Wellbeing
Group led by:

Professor Jane Davidson
Members:
- Professor Gary McPherson
- Dr Frederic Kiernan
- Dr Alex Crooke

Performance Science
Group led by:

Professor Gary McPherson
Members:
- Dr Margaret Osbourne
- Dr Brad Merrick
- Dr Solange Glasser
- Dr Carol Johnson

Music, Mind and Wellbeing
Group led by:

Professor Gary McPherson
Professor Sarah Wilson
Members:
- Professor Jane Davidson
- Professor Felicity Baker
- Dr Margaret Osbourne
- Dr Solange Glasser
- Dr Amanda Krause
- Dr Yi Ting Tan

Monash University

Music Psychology
Group led by:

Adjunct Associate Professor Nikki Rickard

Western Australia

Curtin University

Social and Applied Psychology of Music
Group led by:

Professor Adrian North

Murdoch University

Music Cognition
Group led by:

Dr Jon Prince

International Organisations