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We are very pleased to hear that Maddie Jones, who did an undergraduate dissertation project at the CMS analysing the relationship between music listening and mood, has been awarded a full PhD scholarship to study at Bristol University, in the School of Psychological Science. She will be supervised by Professor Claire Haworth and Dr Oliver Davis, with a project titled 'Mood Music: Exploring causal relationships between the music we listen to and our mental health'.

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2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference – Call for submissions

14 October 2025

The 2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference will take place on 16 April 2026 at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge . It will be hosted by the Centre for Music and Science (University of Cambridge) and the Music, Mind and Brain group (Goldsmiths College, University of London). The remit of the conference is music...

Harin Lee wins best student paper award at ISMIR 2025

2 October 2025

We're really proud of Harin Lee for winning best student paper award at ISMIR 2025! The paper is entitled " GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition ", and presents a methodology for automatically collecting music emotion descriptors across diverse languages. Harin will be joining us later this...

2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference - Save the date!

22 September 2025

The 2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference will be held on Thursday 16th April 2026 for postgraduate and early career researchers (PGRs/ECRs) in the fields of music psychology and music education. It will be jointly hosted by the Centre for Music and Science (University of Cambridge) and the Music, Mind and Brain group (Goldsmiths...