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Centre for Music and Science

 
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All known cultures have music, and all cultures expect their members to be able to be able to make sense of their music by making music or listening to it. In the CMS we explore musicality as a fundamental human capacity. We investigate the full range of musical behaviour from private listening to interacting with others, whether in expert performance or just having fun. Music is not just sound: it is dynamic pattern in embodied minds, movement, and social interactions; it is shaped by biology and the cultures that we inhabit. In the CMS we study music from all these perspectives; we aim to identify its relationships with other domains of human life, particularly speech and language.

How to Apply
We welcome applications from potential MPhil, PhD and Postdoctoral students interested in our research areas, and from visiting scholars and visiting students whose work directly links with ours. Instructions for how to apply are here.

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Latest news

Lottie Anstee receives PhD scholarship from Goldsmiths

21 February 2024

We are very pleased to hear that Lottie Anstee, former undergraduate student at the Centre for Music and Science, has just received a PhD scholarship from Goldsmiths, University of London. Lottie will be starting the PhD in September, working with Lauren Stewart and Katie Rose Sanfilippo. The project concerns developing a...

Xiaoxuan Wang secures PhD position at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at EPFL, Switzerland

2 February 2024

We are delighted for Xiaoxuan Wang, MPhil student at our Centre for Music and Science in 2022-23, who has just accepted a PhD position at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) at EPFL, Switzerland. The DCML is run by Martin Rohrmeier, himself an alumnus of the Centre for Music and Science. The current plan is to...