the Musical Investment Research team
Prof Jane Davidson
Chief Investigator
Jane Davidson is Professor of Creative and Performing Arts (Music) at The University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She was Editor of Psychology of Music (1997-2001), Vice-President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (2003-2006), and President of the Musicological Society of Australia (2010 and 2011). She was a member of the Research Evaluation Committee for the Excellence in Research in Australia (ERA) in 2009 and 2012. Her research is broadly in the area of performance studies, with interests in emotion and expression, voice, musical development, and music and well-being. She has worked as an opera singer and music theatre director, and was coordinator of vocal studies at UWA over an eight-year period. She has published and performed extensively and secured a range of research grants both in Australia and overseas.
Contact details:
j.davidson [at] unimelb.edu.au
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Prof Katrina McFerran
Chief Investigator
Professor Katrina McFerran completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2001 and has worked as a researcher and lecturer in Music Therapy at the university since 2004. She is currently Head of Music Therapy and Co-Director of the National Music Therapy Research Unit, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal, Voices: A world forum for music therapy. Katrina’s music therapy interests have been focused on young people, and she has conducted a range of projects funded by the Australian Research Council, primarily focused in schools. She is committed to collaboration and mutually empowering relationships as a researcher, therapist, teacher, supervisor and in her everyday life. This has been expressed through a range of Participatory Action Research Projects, as well as an emphasis on qualitative research where participants perspectives are valued. Katrina is has supervised a number of PhD and Masters research projects and continues to be engaged with a strong cohort of graduate researchers who are investigating music and music therapy with people in the health, education and disability sectors. She is author of the book ‘Music, Music Therapy and Adolescents’ and co-author, with Dr Daphne Rickson, of ‘Building Music Cultures in the Schools’. She has published more than 60 refereed journal articles and been invited to present locally and internationally about music, music therapy and young people.
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Prof Adrian North
Chief Investigator
Adrian North is Head of the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology at Curtin University. He is interested in the social and applied psychology of music. Specifically, his research concerns music and well-being in specific populations (e.g., suicidality among rock fans) and the general population (e.g., use of digital music in everyday life to improve mood); the impact of music on consumer behavior (e.g., purchasing, advertising, etc.); and theories of musical preference and taste.
Contact details:
adrian.north [at] curtin.edu.au
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Prof Raymond MacDonald
Partner Investigator
Raymond MacDonald is Head of Music and Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Edinburgh University. He has published over 70 papers and co-edited five texts: Musical Identities (2002), Musical Communication (2005), Music Health and Wellbeing (2012), Music Imaginations (2012), and the Handbook of Musical Identities (in press). His ongoing research focuses on issues relating to improvisation, psychology of music, music health and well-being, musical identities, and music education. As a saxophonist and composer, his work is informed by a view of improvisation as a social, collaborative, and uniquely creative process that provides opportunities to develop new ways of working musically. Collaborating with musicians such as Evan Parker, David Byrne, Jim O'Rourke, and Marilyn Crispell, he has released over 50 CDs and toured and broadcast worldwide.
Contact details:
raymond.macdonald [at] ed.ac.uk
Dr Amanda Krause
Research Associate
Amanda Krause is a Research Associate in the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology at Curtin University. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Curtin University. Her research interests include how music is experienced in everyday life. This includes a specific interest in everyday listening habits (with an emphasis on the relationships between digital music, emerging web technologies, and social media) as well as how music participation and listening is linked to well-being.Contact details:
amanda.krause [at] curtin.edu.au
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Dr Juyoung Lee
Research Associate
Juyoung Lee is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tutor, and Clinical Supervisor in music therapy at the University of Melbourne. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2015, for which her research involved integrating the interpersonal relationships between music therapists and their adult clients, who have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Since 2006, she has worked clinically as a music therapist through a non-for-profit organization in various community-based settings, such as adult day-care centers, aged-care facilities, neighborhood houses, and community group homes in Melbourne. Juyoung has also worked with children who have life-threatening illnesses in paediatric hospice. Her research has been published in international and interdisciplinary refereed journals, and Juyoung also regularly presents her work at national and international conferences in the fields of music therapy and intellectual/developmental disability.
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This project is funded by the Australian Research Council (DP140102679); however, the views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Research Council or Universities.
