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Centre for Music and Science

 
Ian Cross is Emeritus Professor of Music & Science, having retired in 2021 as Director of the Centre for Music and Science where he led a lively group of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in exploring music, its materials and its effects from a wide range of scientific perspectives. His early research helped set the agenda for the study of music cognition; he has since published widely in the field of music and science, from the psychoacoustics of violins to the evolutionary roots of musicality.
Sarah Hawkins is Emeritus Professor of Speech and Music Science and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. She has broad interests in how humans communicate using sound-based systems. Her particular specialism is in the acoustics and perception of speech. Her early research studied timing and rhythm in children’s speech, subsequently turning to exploration of subtle differences in acoustic-phonetic patterns that systematically reflect distinctions in linguistic structure, and of how listeners use these subtle cues to understand natural and synthetic speech. These interests have been subsequently extended to the study of musical interaction and performance, as well as speech.

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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...