Fwd: [cfp] Interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on musical care

[sent on behalf of the Musical Care International Network]

We are delighted to report that a call for papers for the Special Collection "Interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on musical care" is up on the Music & Science journal website:

https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-special_collection_interdisciplinary?journalCode=mns

 The final deadline for submissions is 8 September 2025, but papers are welcome at any time before that date.

How did we get here?

 

The idea for this collection came from the Network's Research and Funding group meeting in January 2024 where the need for routes to submission were discussed and the idea of a special issue raised. Since then, the three of us applied to the journal Music & Science to guest edit a special collection on the topic. This journal seemed an appropriate home for this collection as the Network and the Journal share much in their respective goals, including our emphasis on interdisciplinary work and of communication among researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in order to understand music and the roles it can play in our lives. The application was immediately successful, so we formulated a call for papers about which we consulted with the Network's Research and Funding group.

 

What do I need to know now?

 

As a first step, do take a look at the call

https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-special_collection_interdisciplinary?journalCode=mns

 

As with any submission to a peer-reviewed journal, if you'd like to submit, please familiarise yourself with the journal's submission guidelines: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/music-science/journal202491#submission-guidelines.

 Submissions will need to fit with the quality and scope criteria of the journal. Some papers may not fit – if that's the case, that may indicate we need another special collection/issue in another journal but in the meantime, we can suggest alternative journals to submit to.

 

The journal charges an article processing charge (APC) of 854 USD. If you work at a university, you can check whether the university has an arrangement with the publisher with respect to the APC. If you don't work at a university or if your institution does not have such an arrangement, a fee waiver might be an option (https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/gold-open-access-article-processing-charge-waivers). 

Finally, all members of SEMPRE get a 50% discount (https://sempre.org.uk/membership).

 

How can I be involved?

 

We have designed the call to reflect the Network's values and scope and we do hope you will consider submitting your research. The collection will be guest edited by us and (conflicts of interest permitting) we hope to draw on your expertise during the review process. Moreover, if you would be open to mentoring someone in the Network as they work up their paper, please let us know.

 

The call is not exclusive to Network members, do pass the link along to anyone who might be interested. It would be particularly helpful if you have links to organisations who can share the link with their members.

 

Whether you end up being an author, reviewer, mentor, and/or reader of the final papers, we hope you find this initiative helpful.

 

Warm regards,

Musical Care International Network

Fwd: AHRC PhD studentship: Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870

Dear all,

 

Matt Ingleby and I have secured a fully-funded, 4-year PhD studentship with the Museum of the Home on music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780-1870.

 

Please do share with anyone you think might be interested:

 

Alastair (and Matt)

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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship

Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870

 

Queen Mary University of London with the Museum of the Home

 

The deadline for applications is: 1700 BST, Friday 23 May 2025

Interviews will be held during the week commencing: Monday 2 June 2025

 

Queen Mary University of London and the Museum of the Home are pleased to announce the availability of a fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from October 2025 under the AHRC's Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) scheme. The studentship is funded for four years full-time, or up to eight years part-time.

 

Project overview and key aims

This project will explore the significance of music to lived experiences in non-elite English homes from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on examples of different types of home from working-class cottages to petit-bourgeois households, lodging houses and institutional homes, it aims to provide understanding of the role played by music in relation to three key areas of domestic experience: (i) how music was entwined with embodied domestic practices and how it shaped expressive responses, emotional capacities and movement within the home; (ii) how music enabled and sustained familial relationships and other domestic social interactions; and (iii) how music connected homes to the places around them, and the commercial, social, cultural and political networks of the wider world.

 

Alongside a PhD thesis presenting original new research on a neglected area of historical and musicological investigation, the findings of the project will contribute to the Museum of the Home's redisplay of its eighteenth and earlier nineteenth-century period rooms. The production of musical soundtracks for museum visitors and the organisation of a 'Festival-Symposium' on 'Music in the Home', with contributions from researchers, curators and musicians, will be additional outputs.

 

This project will be jointly supervised by Alastair Owens (Professor of Historical Geography), and Matthew Ingleby (Lecturer in Victorian Literature) at Queen Mary; and, at the Museum of the Home, by Louis Platman (Curator and Research Manager) and Gaynor Tutani (Creative Programming Officer).

 

Click here for further details and the application process.

 

For enquiries, or an informal discussion, please contact Alastair Owens (a.j.owens@qmul.ac.uk)

 

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Professor Alastair Owens

Professor of Historical Geography and Director of Education

Chair of Trustees, The Geographical Association

 

School of Geography | Queen Mary University of London | Mile End Road | London | E1 4NS | UK

How to contact me:

Telephone: 0776 560 1782 | Email: a.j.owens@qmul.ac.uk | Using Microsoft Teams? Click here to chat with me |X: @AlastairHackney |Bluesky: @alastairhackney.bsky.social

 

Recent work:

Artists, other creative practitioners and COVID-19: personal experiences and policy reflections (Report, 2022)

At home in London during COVID-19: policy recommendations and key findings (Report, 2022)

Anglicanism, race and the inner city: parochial domesticity and anti-racism in the long 1980s (History Workshop Journal 94, 2022)

Working better together: geographers and collaboration (Teaching Geography 48, 2023)

 

Fwd: Research Fellow in Advanced Audio Systems (deadline 29 April 2025)

Please see a 3-year Research Fellow opportunity below. Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested. Thank you!

Best regards,
   Enzo

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RESEARCH FELLOW IN ADVANCED AUDIO SYSTEMS
University of Surrey (UK)
Post Type: in-person, full time
Location: Guildford (35 minutes by fast train from London)
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum, Fixed Term (- May 2028)
Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Tuesday 29 April 2025
Supervisors: Prof Philip Jackson and Prof Enzo De Sena


An exciting opportunity to join the CoSTAR National Lab's audio team to pioneer future tools, interaction, immersive technologies and AI for the creative industries.

THE ROLE

The Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI) is a core partner leading AI research and development for the new CoSTAR National Lab for R&D in Creative Technology. The CoSTAR National Lab, led by Royal Holloway, University of London, is a £51m investment by the UK Government in applied research to ensure that the UK's screen and performance industries have the research infrastructure and innovation skills to compete globally.

The aim of CoSTAR is to put the UK at the forefront of applied research in advanced technologies for the creative sector. PAI will lead the CoSTAR Creative AI research and development to realise the next generation of AI-enabled storytelling experiences and technologies. This builds on Surrey's track-record of over 35 years of fundamental advances in AI research in computer vision and spatial audio leading to ground-breaking technologies for the creative industries. 

The post will advance knowledge in the use of audio systems for virtual production and contribute to both research publication and novel demonstration of creative technology as part of the CoSTAR National Lab.  The post will initially be offered for a fixed-term of 3 years, which may be extended for the duration of the partnership.

This position is based at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, which forms the core foundational AI expertise of PAI. CVSSP is ranked first in the UK for computer vision and recognised worldwide for pioneering new technologies in audio and vision. The centre leads ground-breaking research in audio-visual AI and machine perception for the benefit of people and society through technological innovations in healthcare, security, entertainment, robotics and communications. Over the past three decades, CVSSP has pioneered advances in 3D and 4D computer vision and spatial audio which have enabled award-winning technologies for content production in TV, film, games and immersive entertainment.

ABOUT YOU

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Research Fellow to seed collaborations and lead R&D activities at the forefront of audio technology for virtual production. The role gives equal emphasis to research outputs and creative industry impact. The successful applicant should be qualified to PhD level in a technical research area, and have relevant experience in more than one of the following:

- Audio production workflows (e.g., DAWs and plugins for audio effects)
- Immersive audio formats (e.g., ambisonics, binaural and object-based audio)
- Programming (e.g., real-time audio, games engine, machine learning toolboxes, git)
- Physical acoustics (e.g., sound properties, room modes and reverberation)
- Participatory research methods (e.g., formal listening tests, statistics and ethics)
- Practical experience (e.g., acoustical measurements, listening tests, practical demonstrations, performance capture, musical training)


Applicants should have excellent software engineering and technical writing skills, alongside motivation to work with others to develop and deploy tools for the creative industries.  Professional communication and collaboration skills are essential.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ourselves into one of the best universities in the world, which we are achieving through the talents and endeavour of every employee. Our culture empowers people to collaboratively achieve this aim and to make a real difference. The University has a world-class research profile and an enterprising spirit, located in one of the safest counties in England, nestled within the Surrey Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and yet only 35 minutes from central London by train.

We can offer a generous renumeration package, which includes relocation assistance where appropriate, an attractive research environment, well-equipped laboratories, the latest computing facilities and access to a variety of staff development opportunities.

HOW TO APPLY

Informal enquiries by email are welcomed either to Professor Philip Jackson (p.jackson@surrey.ac.uk) or Professor Enzo De Sena (e.desena@surrey.ac.uk).

To apply please apply via our website: https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=018925 . Applications submitted via email will not be considered.

Interviews are expected to be held w/c 5th May.

The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all.  We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community.  Therefore we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.


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Enzo De Sena
Professor (Full Professor)
Director, Institute of Sound Recording
Department of Music & Media
University of Surrey
Stag Hill, University Campus, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK

Office: 08aBC03
Email: e.desena@surrey.ac.uk
URL: desena.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enzodesena

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Fwd: Music & Science special issue on music and hearing loss - Call for submissions

Dear all,

 

The interdisciplinary, open access online journal Music & Science has just released a special issue on music and hearing loss.

 

Music and hearing loss

 

Description

It is estimated that by 2050, 2.5 billion people will be living with hearing loss* (WHO, 2024). Hearing loss is a major barrier for accessing music, which can impact negatively on music perception and appreciation and lead to a reduction in musical activities and associated reduction in quality of life. This special collection is focused on scientific research which seeks to understand how hearing loss affects music experiences (perception, listening, performance) and how these can be improved for people with all levels of hearing. This might include approaches to hearing conservation, technical improvements to hearing devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, and audiological practice. It might also include alternative approaches to traditional rehabilitation such as vibrotactile perception and other promising augmentation strategies.

 

We invite submissions from a wide range of disciplinary areas such as music and creative practice, psychology, audiology, acoustics, psychoacoustics, engineering, computer science. 

 

Topics may include (but not be limited to):

·         Hearing conservation and hearing protection devices 

·         Hearing aids for music: user experiences, technological innovation, application design 

·         Cochlear implants for music: user experiences, technological innovation, sound coding strategies

·         Deep learning and signal processing for hearing devices for music

·         Music augmentation strategies (e.g. vibrotactile, personalised listening) 

·         Audiological/hearing therapy practice 

·         Music-based aural rehabilitation strategies 

·         Music perception and hearing loss 

·         Creative practice for those with hearing loss

 

The Special Collection welcomes the full range of paper types (including empirical research articles, theoretical papers, position papers, discussions, and reviews).

 

*Please note: We are using 'hearing loss' as the term most commonly used in scientific research papers which address the impact of different levels of hearing on music experience. We appreciate the complexity and diversity of terminology and philosophical perspectives on this matter, and that different terms are preferred and commonly used. Given variations in terminology use (e.g. 'hearing impairment', 'deaf', 'hard of hearing', 'hearing difference'), we ask that authors use their preferred terms, along with any relevant critique of terminology.

 

You can find out more, including the submission guidelines here: https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-music_and_hearing_loss/mns

 

Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2025

 

Editorial team:

Alinka Greasley, Scott Bannister, Kai Siedenburg, Kate Gfeller, Gerardo Roa Dabike

 

Please contact me or one of the editorial team if you have any questions.

 

Best wishes,

Alinka

 

Prof. Alinka Greasley

Professor of Music Psychology

Director of Research and Innovation

School of Music | University of Leeds | Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Email: a.e.greasley@leeds.ac.uk