Michelle undertook PhD study in the Centre for Music and Science, under the supervision of Dr. Ian Cross, funded by a Domestic Research Studentship (awarded by the University of Cambridge).
Her research interests include the golden section, music and number, perception of large-scale musical form, prospective and retrospective experience of time (duration) during music listening, and music and dementia. See below for details of papers, posters and conferences.
Michelle is now a lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds College of Music. During 2010 Michelle acted as an expert consultant to the Science Museum (London) for the ‘Who Am I?’ exhibition, and between January and March 2011 she conducted research at the Science Museum as part of the ‘Science Live’ programme.
Michelle also enjoys working on music outreach education projects, and wrote and ran show about music and maths for 350 primary school children entitled ‘Good Vibrations‘, shown as part of the Science Festival at the University of Cambridge in March 2010 and 2011.
Prior to beginning her postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge, Michelle completed a BA(Hons) degree in Music and German, followed by an MA(by research) in German (funded by AHRB, now AHRC), studying the influence of music and music culture on contemporary Austrian fiction.
Michelle plays the tenor and baritone saxophone in the Quadrangle saxophone quartet, and the Equinox saxophone ensemble, with which she performs regularly. She is a chartered accountant, served for three years as a trustee for the charity Ladder to the Moon (which brings interactive theatre and music to older people and dementia patients in care homes in the London area), and currently acts as voluntary accountant for the Cambridge-based charity King’s Junior Voices.