About me
I am a music psychology researcher with a passion for supporting musicians’ health and wellbeing. I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Music physiology and Musicians’ Medicine (IMMM) at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, where I conduct research on musicians’ performance-related pain. I am also an adjunct researcher at the Sydney Music, Mind, and Body lab at the University of Sydney.
I initially trained as a classical pianist and completed a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before completing an MA in Psychology of Music at the University of Sheffield and a PhD at the Royal Northern College of Music, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
I am passionate about making research findings accessible to musicians, teachers, and clinicans. I am currently the organiser of Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) journal club. During my time as a PhD student, I also co-led Flourish, a funded project that aimed to communicate research findings from performance science to music students in interesting and engaging ways.
If I’m not doing research or playing the piano, I like to climb, hike, cook, eat food, and pat cute dogs.
Research interests
My research interests broadly lie in the fields of musicians’ health and performance psychology, but I am interested in any research that involves finding ways to support musicians better. Specific areas of interest include:
- Musicians’ performance-related pain
- Effective music practice
- Self-regulated learning
- Music performance anxiety
- Scale development, validation, and cross-cultural adaptation
- Intervention development and testing
- Use of technology to support musicians
Current projects
- Developing and evaluating a mobile app (mHealth) intervention for the prevention and management of musicians’ playing-related pain (crescendo)
- Longitudinal study of factors associated with performance-related pain among tertiary music students
- Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the German Musicians’ Health Literacy Questionnaire (MHL-Q19)
Previous projects
- Developing and evaluating an online intervention to help conservatoire piano students practise effectively (Check out the intervention here!)
- Developing a mobile app to monitor musicians’ practice (PracLog)
- Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure self-regulated learning in music practice