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Arild Stenberg is Senior Research Associate for the Leverhulme-funded project Score design for music reading: Cognitive and artistic perspectives. Arild previously completed his PhD at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, in 2019, supervised by Prof. Cross (music) and Prof. Sarah Hawkins (linguistics).

David Duncan is a research assistant on the Leverhulme-funded project Score Design for Music Reading, led by Ian Cross and Arild Stenberg. Since his PhD in composition (University of Glasgow) he has worked in music publishing and education. As an editor at Edition Peters, he prepared many contemporary pieces for performance, including works by James Dillon and Anders Hillborg, and he designed and edited an activity book for children based on the works of John Cage, Everything We Do is Music. After leaving Edition Peters he managed the publishing output of the London College of Music, where he played an active part in diversifying graded music curriculums, and he has recently worked in as a syllabus manager at RSL Awards, developing new vocational qualifications for schools and colleges. He is particularly passionate about widening access to music education.

Harin Lee is a multidisciplinary researcher combining large-scale data analysis with cross-cultural experiments to study the psychological foundations of music cognition and musical diversity worldwide. His research includes field experiments with Tsimané villagers in the Bolivian Amazon and developing human-in-the-loop online paradigms to investigate cultural evolution in artificial worlds. Currently a Junior Research Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge, he earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Previously, he worked at the music streaming company Deezer in Paris and co-founded ‘aiar', an art-science collective that integrates real-time brain imaging into live performances at venues such as Berghain in Berlin.

 

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2026 SEMPRE PGR/ECR Conference – Call for submissions

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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...