Dr Michelle Phillips
🎵Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology & Head of Enterprise, Royal Northern College of Music UK
🧬 Research: audiences, live music, music & Parkinson’s, music & neuroscience
🎓PhD Uni of Cambridge
📊Accountant 🎷Saxophonist
Www.WhyHumansNeedMusic.com
- Stimulating week on this BPM Rehab research project with DJ Mark One, Dr Penny Trayner & Charlotte Naylor The project explores how immersive training environments influence DJ education for individuals with neurodisability or neurodivergent profiles @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsStudy from MUSICOTAS: www.jyu.fi/en/projects/..., with @dana-and-monsters.bsky.social , @pattinijhuis.bsky.social, @js.bamford.id.au , lead by Martin Hartmann. Consortium with @vtt.fi
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsNews page from our university about a group interview study we just launched! Feel free to share. We are looking for people based in Finland, fluent in English, 18+. www.jyu.fi/en/news/what... #musicresearch #musicscience
- Soooooooo honoured and over the moon to be a finalist in the Northern Power Women Awards! Here’s to all the inspiring powerful Northern women in my life! 😍 💪
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsWe’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
- Over the moon to win the Alan Turning Award at last night’s ’I Love Manchester’ ceremony, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals & organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking’ 😃 🏆 Our @rncmlive.bsky.social students rocked the stage with their music!
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsFully funded #PhD at RNCM alert! RNCM + partners in the the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College are offering 30 AHRC studentships exploring care, creativity & community💡 💰 £20,780 stipend + fees covered 📅 EOI: 1 Dec 2025 👉 rncm.ac.uk/news #DoctoralFunding #MusicResearch
- “Manchester has been a musical explosion!” -John Adams after the concert ‘Hallé Chamber Series: John Adams Chamber Symphony’ just now at our @rncmlive.bsky.social with Hallé & RNCM musicians Awesome performances & a wonderful chance for our incredible students to work with this musical legend!
- What a special opportunity tonight - to see & hear John Adams conducting his music with the awesome Halle orchestra at the wonderful @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social! Excited about tomorrow when John Adams visits us for 2 performances of his music @rncmlive.bsky.social www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...
- Great to deliver this KTP50 talk today! Thanks Sinead (MMU), Clare (Uni of Manc Innovation Factory) & Paul (Uni of Salford) It’s been fab to work on our CCF RED TTO project funded by Research England on IP, commercialisation & consultancy @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social #KTP2025
- 🧠 🎵 🪩 New blog post by me & Jason Taylor: 🪩 🎵 🧠 @canadianjason.bsky.social www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/self-es... We had the utter joy of seeing @selfesteem.music-social.com ‘s ‘A Complicated Woman’ show-Great to see what we know from our research on live music in action! #AComplicatedWoman
- What a wonderful talk this was - utterly stimulating, & so relevant & important to everything we do at @rncmlive.bsky.social. And a brill evening in great company, thanks Ian and David (you were with us in spirit, Katya!). Fab to round off with whiskey with Ian & Jason @canadianjason.bsky.social
- At 4.15pm today, Professor Ian Cross, Dr David Duncan, and Katya Ness will share their Leverhulme-funded Score Design for Music Reading project with us at the RNCM (@rncmlive.bsky.social) in our Research Forum. You can join us for this too – details in the link below. www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...
- 🧠 🎵 Great to talk to John Pienaar on Times Radio today about this amazing story of Denise, who played her clarinet while undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery to help with her Parkinson’s symptoms: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🎵 🧠 @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Michelle Phillips🌟 We’re hiring! 🌟 Are you interested in memory, cognitive training, & healthy ageing? We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ814/r... 👉 0.5 FTE (2.5 days/week), 4 months (likely from 01/26) 👉 Annual salary £32,080 to £33,002 (pro-rata) 👉 Based in Sheffield, UK
- 🎵 ☠️ New blog: Music in Traitors Mansion ☠️ 🎵 “As we romp merrily through this awesome series, we have a rich chance to acknowledge & celebrate what music does for us, & for everyone who’s Faithful to this bananas & mesmerising show” #CelebrityTraitors www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/music-i...
- 🏆 😃 🏆 Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsPlease spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood. If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...
- Incredible Music, Movement, Mood & Parkinson’s symposium at @hslu-luzern.bsky.social Switzerland, led by the magnificent Prof Dawn Rose. Here, Jane talked about our concerts in Lucerne & @rncmlive.bsky.social Very proud to have been invited to be part of the final panel! @beamlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsWe’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsVanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!
- Chuffed that our music and Parkinson’s paper on ‘The Use of Music Among Swiss People with Parkinson’s: A Mixed Methods Survey and Comparison to the UK Findings’ led by the wonderful Prof Dawn Rose and with lots of fab collaborators, is now out! #PPI #Parkinsons journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsSome photos of @kateywarran.bsky.social speaking at The Royal Institution @rigb.org alongside @michelle-phillips.bsky.social @rosielperkins.bsky.social & Ming Hsu for the ABRSM symposium
- Bucket list moment! 🪣 🤩 Tonight I presented at The Royal Institution in London! I was hosting a panel for an ABRSM Music, Health and Wellbeing symposium - what an honour to be asked! I’m buzzing! Now returning to Manchester to continue week 1 of our new @rncmlive.bsky.social academic year!
- 🥇 🏆 🎵 💡 🧬 Honoured to be shortlisted for the I Love Manchester ‘Alan Turing Award’, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals and organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking.’ Voting is open here until 3rd October 2025 ilovemanchester.com/awards
- We won! Total joy to work with Suneel Kunamaneni (Uni of Manchester), Ambarin Asad (Uni of Salford) & Catherine Brentnall (Manchester Met Uni) to run an entrepreneurship event for students from all 4 institutions Our paper won Best in Track at the International Enterprise Ed Conference 2025! 🏆🥇💪
- Absolutely glorious time at International Enterprise Educators Conference 2025! #EEUK #IEEC2025 Great to catch up with fab friends & present two papers with collaborators: first on our Manchester Unhackathon, & second on our EEUK Impact Award funded project on music enterprise education in schools
- 🎵☀️New blog: A summer of music☀️🎵 www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/a-summe... From #Oasis gigs enjoyed from my garden, to music & our football champions, #DannyElfman’s music for Universal’s new #EpicUniverse theme park, the Proms, #TaylorSwift & #FreakierFriday -what a glorious summer of music!
- Reposted by Dr Michelle Phillips2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsDo you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance. #FanStudies #AudienceResearch
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsWe’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsAre you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle Phillips🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Revelling in a holiday that includes the celebration of all things Disney, film and music #DisneyWorldOrlando #DisneyHollywoodStudios #DisneySoul 🐭 🎵 🎥
- Excited to get stuck into this year’s #BookerPrize2025, although, like others, I’m disappointed that Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’ didn’t make it 📖
- We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
- Reposted by Dr Michelle Phillips❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy? The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications. Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
- Yes! “Research excellence looks different in different contexts ..A specialist arts institution may demonstrate world-leading innovation through creative practice that doesn’t align neatly with standard research output categories” Really nice, thanks @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/ref-pa...
- Thanks BBC Songs of Praise for featuring our music & neuroscience work on your ‘Power of Music’ show today. It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)
- It was SO cool to be part of a panel in a flipping planetarium! Bucket list complete!! 😂 🪣 @jodrellbank.bsky.social
- What an honour to be part of this panel on ‘The Science and Politics of Togetherness in Music Cultures’ tonight at Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social. Thanks @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social and everyone involved in this wonderful event! @rncmlive.bsky.social
- Our final panel of the research conference 'Neither Factory Records Nor Madchester' with @manmetuni.bsky.social here at @jodrellbank.bsky.social focusses on the science and politics of togetherness in music cultures chaired by Roddy Hawkins
- 📺 🎵 This Sunday 1.15pm, our music & neuroscience research will be on BBC Songs of Praise 🎵 📺 This is a collaborative project put together with these amazing researchers: Ana Marta Pacheco Aguiar Dan Baczkowski Stephen Ball Sam Roberts Dr Jason Taylor Aestus String Quartet @rncmlive.bsky.social
- “higher education needs to develop a much better account of how the knowledge that students engage with through their degrees prepares them to make important contributions to society…Our role is to support society & students to understand the power of this knowledge & what it can do in the world.”👍
- New Post: How should higher education respond to calls to be relevant? www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/16/h...
- Fab evening at the Sage summer party at Natural History Museum London Champagne, live jazz, and lots of fascinating people. Brill welcome: “Education and scholarship are tools to shape a better world.” Loving being joint Editor in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music with Nikki Moran 🥂 🎵 📕 🦕
- It was a joy & honour to be part of this enterprise & entrepreneurship podcast, & to share all we do at our @rncmlive.bsky.social Thanks @advancehe.bsky.social and Stuart Norton for the invite, and thanks to inspiring fellow guests Alison Price @enterpriseev.bsky.social, Lisa McMullan & Leigh Seer
- Chatting all things #EntEd with great colleagues @michelle-phillips.bsky.social Lisa McMullan Leigh Seer & hosted by @advancehe.bsky.social ‘s Stuart Norton open.spotify.com/episode/7cEB... @enterpriseev.bsky.social
- 📢 New blog by me & Sarah Walters 📢 @mssarahwalters.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social BRITAIN’S GOT A LOT OF TALENT, BUT MAKING MUSIC IS OUR SUPERPOWER SKILL How BGT (live final tomorrow), shows us the vital role of music in our lives 🎵 #BGT @itv.com www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/britain...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsCome postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !
- Fab fun day filming with BBC Songs of Praise. They’re covering our music & neuroscience work, & our brain data visualisation of how we respond to live performance. It’ll be part of their ‘Power of Music’ show, probably going out on Sunday 22nd June. @canadianjason.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social
- What a great way to spend an afternoon! Thanks for the invite @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social. Stimulating discussion on audiences, AI, innovation, tech, sound, + the important role that universities play, & the exciting creativity powerhouse that Greater Manchester is! 🎵 💡 💪 @rncmlive.bsky.social
- Thank you to our expert panel Prof Ricardo Climent, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, Dr @michelle-phillips.bsky.social, @lizzycscott.bsky.social, Pete Woodbridge and Rob Oldfield (Salsa Sound)👏
- Reposted by Dr Michelle Phillips🚨 Two open faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology (incl. visual perception) at University of Southern Denmark! 🚨 #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence #compneurosky
- Really looking forward to being on the panel for this! @rncmlive.bsky.social
- LAST CHANCE📣 'Creativity + AI: Music' takes place on Monday, 12 May, at Sister Together with @digitaluom.bsky.social & @ticmcr.bsky.social join us to discuss use & challenges of AI in the music industry 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1300495660...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsHuge thanks to Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social for hosting us and opening the IP Beyond Music event last week at the Royal Northern College of Music @rncmlive.bsky.social. Get the event highlights and our summary of the discussions and advice here: lnkd.in/evCGzysP
- Thanks to UoM Innovation Factory & all who came to this, hosted at our @rncmlive.bsky.social for World IP Day Fab chance to share RNCM research & great to hear Russells lawyers & keynote Andy Penaluna,Advisor to Universities IP Steering Committee Thanks for inviting me to do the opening welcome! 🎵
- Thanks to UoM Innovation Factory & all who came to this, hosted at our @rncmlive.bsky.social for World IP Day Fab chance to share RNCM research & great to hear Russells lawyers & keynote Andy Penaluna,Advisor to Universities IP Steering Committee Thanks for inviting me to do the opening welcome! 🎵
- 🎶 Work with music + IP? From AI to composition, tech to new methods – this event’s for you! 🗓 Tues 29 Apr @ 1–5pm 📍 RNCM Lecture Theatre Open to staff + students: @uniofmanchester.bsky.social, @rncmlive.bsky.social, @salforduni.bsky.social + @manmetuni.bsky.social. Insights+Celebration! REGISTER👇
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsCalling student members, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty in #musicscience 📣 Our Early Career Researchers’ Group (ECRG) is being established to provide support, networking, and mentorship across institutions and countries. Join up below!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsWe're hoping to get in touch with some of our past music psychology MA graduates who have studied with us part-time or by distance learning to help us with a small piece of research. We know there are loads of you, so if you're out there in the blue skies, give us a follow so we can find you! 👋
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsNew job in the Department of Psychology at Durham University, UK 🔹️ Successful applicants normally within 8 years of completing PhD or close to submitting 🔹️ 36 month contract 🔹️ Closing date: 22nd May 2025 🔹️ More info: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychJobs
- Stimulating article in today’s @theguardian.com, ‘how to be a better person’, on ‘moral ambition’: “the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your working life to the great challenges of our time […] It’s the longing to make a difference,& to build a legacy that truly matters.”
- What an absolute honour & joy to be part of this A list conference chair team for the SEMPRE 2025 annual conference at our RNCM. @musojane.bsky.social @alexlamont.bsky.social Thanks all for a stimulating 2 days! #SEMPRE @journals.sagepub.com @rncmlive.bsky.social www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle Phillips"If you want politicians to understand the music industry, they need to see the numbers." Our annual Creators' Survey is open NOW - help us show the true economic value of UK music. surveyd.bilendi.com/survey/selfs...
- 📢 Research Associate job! 📢 Deadline: 15th April 2025 27 month Research Associate post with Arts Council England funded Creative Health GM Place Partnership & Civic University Board (CUB): GM Unis incl RNCM, + Greater Manchester Combined Authority.🎵 🧬 🎭 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- “Higher education generates significant positive externalities – benefits that extend beyond the individual student to society at large. Knowledge spillovers, regional economic development, civic engagement, and cultural enrichment represent value that market signals alone fail to capture.” 🙌
- Last chance to register for our SEMPRE conference 9-10 April at our RNCM! sempre.org.uk/conference/s... You can join us in person if you book by the end of tomorrow (Tue 25th March), or bookings will remain open for online attendance (£50 for the whole two days - bargain!).
- 📣 SEMPRE conference 9-10 April 2025, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK 📣 Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2025 Keynotes: Karen Burland & Daniel Müllensiefen Please do join us, and please share with any colleagues who you think may be interested! sempre.org.uk/conferences/...
- Reposted by Dr Michelle PhillipsI'm happy to announce a Ph.D. position open working with Letty Koopman & me at the SNA cluster in Groningen! Application deadline is March 31st. The project will develop multiplex network models that estimate & adjust for measure biases related to friendship. Please share! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
- Thank you Queen's University Belfast for inviting me to talk today on ‘Living with Parkinson’s: How can music help?’ I feel honoured to work on this, with colleagues at Royal Northern College of Music, collaborators in the UK @beamlab.bsky.social & Lucerne, & people living with Parkinson’s
- Really looking forward to this! Do come and join us, the full programme is now available and it’s going to be a wonderful two days! Registration is open! sempre.org.uk/conference/s...
- The next SEMPRE spring conference will be held at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK, on 9 and 10 April 2025. Abstracts for this conference just be submitted by 31st January 2025. www.sempre.org.uk/conferences/...
