Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- Mental Health And Well-Being at 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Virtual (USA), 2021)
- 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (Online, 2021)
- ICMI 2018: 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, by Invitation (Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2018)
- AVEC 2017: 7th Annual Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (Mountain View, CA, USA, 2017 - 2019)
- INTERSPEECH 2017: International Conference of the Speech Communication Association, by Invitation (Stockholm, Sweden, 2017)
- ESCOM 2017: International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive (Ghent, Belgium, 2017)
- INTERSPEECH 2016: 17th International Conference of the Speech Communication Association (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016)
- ACM Multimedia 2015: Emotional and Social Signals in Multimedia, by Invitation (Brisbane, Australia, 2015)
- 1st International Workshop on Personality and Affect in Multimedia Retrieval at ACII 2015: International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, by Invitation (Xi’an, China, 2015)
- ACM Multimedia 2014: Emotional and Social Signals in Multimedia, by Invitation (Orlando, Florida, USA, 2014)
- 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (Brisbane, Australia, 2012)
- SBCM 2011: 13th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, by Invitation (Vitória, ES., Brazil, 2011)
- CogSci 2011: 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, by Invitation (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2011)
- CIM10: International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (Nature versus Culture) (Sheffield, UK, 2010)
- ICMC 2005: International Computer Music Conference, by Invitation (Barcelona, Spain, 2009 - 2005)
- SBCM 2005: 10th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, by Invitation (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2005 - 2006)
- ISMIR 2005: 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (London, UK, 2005)
Editorships
- Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain (Special Issue: Interactions between Emotion and Cognition in Music) (Invited Guest Editor)
- Frontiers (Human-Media Interaction section) (Associate Editor, 2015 - 2019)
Event Roles
- Decolonising Music Research at 7th meeting of the Northern Network for Empirical Music Research (NEMuR), by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Durham, 2022)
- 6th meeting of the Northern Network for Empirical Music Research (NEMuR) (Workshop, Liverpool, 2022)
- Music Interventions in Care at NHS R&D Northwest Provocations Seminar Series, by Invitation (Workshop, Online, 2022)
- Composition based activities for people living with dementia (Workshop, Liverpool, 2022)
- Turtle Song @ Liverpool (2022) (Performance, Liverpool, 2022)
- Music listening for depression (invited lecture), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Porto, Portugal)
- Interface Soudscapes @Open Circuit Festival (Exhibition, University of Liverprool, 2019)
- CREATIVE ARTS FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS (Workshop, THE QUAKER MEETING HOUSE, 22 SCHOOL LANE, LIVERPOOL L1 3BT, 2018)
- PlatFORM @Tate Liverpool (Exhibition, Tate Liverpool, 2018)
- Mental Health in Context Group Seminar Series at Music in Healthcare (invited research seminar), by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Liverpool, UK, 2018)
- Music, Mind and Brain Master's at Music, Speech and Emotion (invited lecture), by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, London, UK, 2018 - present)
- Music and Emotion (invited lecture), by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Ormskirk, UK, 2017 - present)
- 17th International Conference on International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017) at Workshop on Conversational Interruptions in Human-Agent Interactions (Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017)
- Music and Emotion (invited lecture), by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Ormskirk, UK, 2017)
Grant Application Assessments
- External Post-submission ()
- External Post-submission (Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), 2018 - present)
- External Post-submission (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), 2016 - present)
- External Post-submission (2016 - present)
- External Post-submission (2014 - present)
- External Post-submission (2014 - present)
Internal Administrative or Committee Roles
- Head of Research Governance (School / Institute, 2023 - present)
- Member of the Central University Research Ethics Committee (University, 2016 - present)
Media Appearances
- Interface Sounscapes, Crafts Magazine
- Music and Mood, Scouse Science podcast (Invited, March 2022)
- Hand Held to Super Scale: Building with Ceramics, ICON (October 2019)
- MUSIC.ME, RTP Tec Net (Invited, July 2020)
Organisations I have been associated with
- VIBE Music Therapy (2019 - present)
Professional Body Memberships
- Higher Education Academy (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2019 - present)
- (Member, 2015 - 2016)
- (Member, 2015 - 2018)
- (Associate, 2013 - 2015)
- (Member, 2009 - present)
Publication Reviews
- Reviewer, Invited (Psychology of Music, Pre-publication, 2022 - present)
- Reviewer, Invited (Applied Cognitive Psychology, Pre-publication, 2021 - present)
- Reviewer, Invited (Musicae Scientiae: the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Pre-publication, 2021 - present)
- Reviewer, Invited (IEEE: Signal Processing Magazine, Pre-publication, 2021 - present)
- Reviewer, Invited (Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
- Reviewer, Invited (Music Perception, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Psychomusicology: a journal of research in music cognition, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Nature Scientific Reports, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Environment and Behavior, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Behavioural Brain Research, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Acta Psychologica, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Cognition and Emotion, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Frontiers in Neuroscience, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Neural Networks, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Computer Speech and Language, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Neural Computation, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (Neural Computing and Applications, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (IEEE Transactions on Information Systems, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Pre-publication)
- Reviewer, Invited (IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Pre-publication)