Call for Papers: SEMPRE conference at Royal Northern College of Music, 9-10 April 2025
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.
The theme of the conference is Intersections between music psychology and education. The keynote speakers will be Professor Karen Burland and Professor Daniel Müllensiefen.
Abstracts are invited for individual oral presentations (papers), posters and symposia. Only one first-authored submission should be made in each category.
Individual papers will be 15 minutes long. They can be given in person or remotely via video conference. Posters can only be given in person. Abstracts for papers and posters should be no more than 200 words and structured, setting out the context, aims, methods, results / findings and implications of the research (citations and references should not be included).
Symposia should consist of 3 to 5 linked papers, an introduction and a concluding panel discussion, with a time limit for the whole symposium of 1 hour 40 minutes. The majority of papers within a symposium should be given in person.
Abstracts for symposia should include a rationale for the symposium (no more than 200 words) followed by an abstract for each of the papers included in the symposium.
Abstracts must be submitted via https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76889/submitter.
Deadlines:
· Abstract submission: 31 January 2025
· Acceptances to authors: 11 February 2025
· Applications for conference awards to SEMPRE: 14 February 2025
· Registration: 28 February 2025
· Submission of video presentations: 14 March 2025.
The Aubrey Hickman Award is offered biennially to a postgraduate researcher or early career researcher (see http://www.sempre.org.uk/awardshickman for more information). Abstracts for this award (2000-3000 words) must be submitted to SEMPRE@hull.ac.uk by 17 January 2025.
Please send any queries to SEMPRE2025@rncm.ac.uk.
All the best,
Jane Ginsborg, Alex Lamont and Michelle Phillips
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.
The theme of the conference is Intersections between music psychology and education. The keynote speakers will be Professor Karen Burland and Professor Daniel Müllensiefen.
Abstracts are invited for individual oral presentations (papers), posters and symposia. Only one first-authored submission should be made in each category.
Individual papers will be 15 minutes long. They can be given in person or remotely via video conference. Posters can only be given in person. Abstracts for papers and posters should be no more than 200 words and structured, setting out the context, aims, methods, results / findings and implications of the research (citations and references should not be included).
Symposia should consist of 3 to 5 linked papers, an introduction and a concluding panel discussion, with a time limit for the whole symposium of 1 hour 40 minutes. The majority of papers within a symposium should be given in person.
Abstracts for symposia should include a rationale for the symposium (no more than 200 words) followed by an abstract for each of the papers included in the symposium.
Abstracts must be submitted via https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76889/submitter.
Deadlines:
· Abstract submission: 31 January 2025
· Acceptances to authors: 11 February 2025
· Applications for conference awards to SEMPRE: 14 February 2025
· Registration: 28 February 2025
· Submission of video presentations: 14 March 2025.
The Aubrey Hickman Award is offered biennially to a postgraduate researcher or early career researcher (see http://www.sempre.org.uk/awardshickman for more information). Abstracts for this award (2000-3000 words) must be submitted to SEMPRE@hull.ac.uk by 17 January 2025.
Please send any queries to SEMPRE2025@rncm.ac.uk.
All the best,
Jane Ginsborg, Alex Lamont and Michelle Phillips
