Psychology of Music Master of Arts - MArt (Hons)

Explore fundamental questions about music and its central place in our lives on the longest established music psychology programme in the UK. Our interdisciplinary approach offers a unique perspective on music and rigorous research training with professional applications.

Course description\
Dive into the key debates in music psychology, master advanced research techniques, and explore how music shapes everyday human experience. You’ll build a solid grounding in core areas including the cognition and neuroscience of music, music education, music therapy and wellbeing, performance science, and the role of music in both daily and exceptional life. Our widely published staff will guide and support you as you develop your specific interests and professional priorities, culminating in an original research dissertation. For your final project, you can pursue a topic of your choice or tackle a real-world problem directly alongside an external industry partner or practitioner.

Throughout your studies, you’ll engage with a remarkable range of cutting-edge specialisms. These span everything from music and dementia, technology, and AI to innovations in classical audience experiences and the socio-musical dynamics of group singing for human flourishing. Embedded within the regional music network, the course connects you directly with partners across music education, health, wellbeing, and industry. Along the way, you’ll acquire a versatile set of employable skills including:

* data management and analysis

* laboratory, interview, and observational techniques

* evaluation methods for the impacts of creative arts interventions

Joining our school means becoming part of a vibrant academic community made up of students from music, psychology, and other related backgrounds. You’ll have regular opportunities to participate in events hosted by our internationally recognised research centres: Muses, Mind, Machine, the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC), and the Harmonic Health Hub. By fostering interdisciplinary research, industry collaborations, and consultancy projects, these centres offer invaluable real-world insights that will help shape your future career.

Accreditation\
We are an All-Steinway School.

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