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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m very excited to have taken up this role, and what a wonderful first week it’s been!

Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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! ⛪️ 🔔 🏆

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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! 🍾

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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!

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

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

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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

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

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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

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Margarida Baltazar @margarida-baltazar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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MUSICOTAS 2025-2029

Musical Sharing In Copresent Time And Space

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Margarida Baltazar @margarida-baltazar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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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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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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! 😍 💪

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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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/...

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PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities - Durham University

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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!

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RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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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News - Royal Northern College of Music

Keep up to date with the latest news and announcements from the Royal Northern College of Music.

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

“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!

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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...

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🧠 🎵 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

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Claudia von Bastian @cvonbastian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🌟 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

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

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Assistant - Cognitive Ability & Plasticity Lab opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🎵 ☠️ 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...

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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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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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...

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

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Tessa Dekker @tessamdekker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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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Research Assistant at UCL

Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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!

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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/...

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PATHS Research Group @paths-research.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Bucket list moment! 🪣 🤩 Tonight I presented at The Royal Institution in London! I was hosting a panel for an ABRSM Music, Health and Wellbeing symposium - what an honour to be asked! I’m buzzing! Now returning to Manchester to continue week 1 of our new @rncmlive.bsky.social academic year!

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🥇 🏆 🎵 💡 🧬 Honoured to be shortlisted for the I Love Manchester ‘Alan Turing Award’, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals and organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking.’ Voting is open here until 3rd October 2025 ilovemanchester.com/awards

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We won! Total joy to work with Suneel Kunamaneni (Uni of Manchester), Ambarin Asad (Uni of Salford) & Catherine Brentnall (Manchester Met Uni) to run an entrepreneurship event for students from all 4 institutions Our paper won Best in Track at the International Enterprise Ed Conference 2025! 🏆🥇💪

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Absolutely glorious time at International Enterprise Educators Conference 2025! #EEUK #IEEC2025 Great to catch up with fab friends & present two papers with collaborators: first on our Manchester Unhackathon, & second on our EEUK Impact Award funded project on music enterprise education in schools

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🎵☀️New blog: A summer of music☀️🎵 www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/a-summe... From #Oasis gigs enjoyed from my garden, to music & our football champions, #DannyElfman’s music for Universal’s new #EpicUniverse theme park, the Proms, #TaylorSwift & #FreakierFriday -what a glorious summer of music!

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A summer of music

‘Summer’, wrote Harper Lee in her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, ‘was our best season.’ There’s certainly a nostalgic quality to our summer memories – formed during those warm, drawn-out evening...

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Jobs - The University of York

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Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance. #FanStudies #AudienceResearch

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TV Survey

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation

Job Offer from August 11, 2025

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

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SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Revelling in a holiday that includes the celebration of all things Disney, film and music #DisneyWorldOrlando #DisneyHollywoodStudios #DisneySoul 🐭 🎵 🎥

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Excited to get stuck into this year’s #BookerPrize2025, although, like others, I’m disappointed that Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’ didn’t make it 📖

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 08/07/2025

❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy? The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications. Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Yes! “Research excellence looks different in different contexts ..A specialist arts institution may demonstrate world-leading innovation through creative practice that doesn’t align neatly with standard research output categories” Really nice, thanks @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/ref-pa...

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REF panels must reflect the diversity of the UK higher education sector

The composition of REF panels is a litmus test for how seriously the sector takes its commitments to diversity, argue Louise Bracken, Elizabeth Stokoe, Nick Brook, and Rachel Woolley The composition o...

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thanks BBC Songs of Praise for featuring our music & neuroscience work on your ‘Power of Music’ show today. It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It was SO cool to be part of a panel in a flipping planetarium! Bucket list complete!! 😂 🪣 @jodrellbank.bsky.social

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

What an honour to be part of this panel on ‘The Science and Politics of Togetherness in Music Cultures’ tonight at Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social. Thanks @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social and everyone involved in this wonderful event! @rncmlive.bsky.social

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

📺 🎵 This Sunday 1.15pm, our music & neuroscience research will be on BBC Songs of Praise 🎵 📺 This is a collaborative project put together with these amazing researchers: Ana Marta Pacheco Aguiar Dan Baczkowski Stephen Ball Sam Roberts Dr Jason Taylor Aestus String Quartet @rncmlive.bsky.social

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Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“higher education needs to develop a much better account of how the knowledge that students engage with through their degrees prepares them to make important contributions to society…Our role is to support society & students to understand the power of this knowledge & what it can do in the world.”👍

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