Research Supervisors

Research interests: Music Psychology, music making/listening and wellbeing, voice teaching and expertise, classical voice, music theatre voice, vocal pedagogy, vocal performance.

Research Interests: Music education, music psychology, the wider benefits of sustained education in and through music, instrumental music teaching/learning, lifelong learning, music and special needs, ADHD, community music, music performance and performing arts.

Research Interests: Composition, experimental music , group dynamics in ensemble performance, practice-based research, research project design

Research interests: Popular Music Pedagogy. Group Teaching, Pedagogical Strategies

Research Interests: Singing habilitation, singing rehabilitation, voice rehabilitation, voice therapy, singing voice therapy, singing-informed voice therapy, Neurologic Music Therapy, functional, structural, and neurogenic voice disorders, oral-nasal balance, velopharyngeal dysfunction, hypernasality, hyponasality, resonance.

Research interests: The application of psychological theory to vocal performance, psychological features of voice disorders and voice difficulties, use of psychological skills in voice teaching and pedagogy, use of psychological principles in voice rehabilitation, experimental psychology and quantitative methods.

Research interests: Applied vocal acoustics, articulatory phonetics, habilitation for the aging elite singer, historical voice pedagogy, the low male voice (LMV), the male expanding voice, motor learning theory, queer and trans voice pedagogy, sung Russian, world lyric dictions.

Research interests: neuroscience of vocalization.

Research interests: Singing for mental health and trauma, chronic pain, respiratory health and multiple sclerosis.

Research interests: As the human voice is the primary sound source for speech, song, and the expression of emotions, Michel's research interests connect with much of the breadth of communicative behaviour. Indicative areas include singing, vocal imitation, stammering/stuttering, speech prosody, vocal attractiveness, cues to deception, ASMR, and misophonia.

Research interests: vocal pedagogy, girl's changing voice and breathing and support for singing and speaking.

Research interests: Voice disorders, how they impact singers, how to actively participate in the treatment, rehabilitation, and retraining of the voice. 

Research interests: Gender Studies, IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility), Social Justice Advocacy, Women’s Empowerment, Contemporary Classical, Indie & Folk Music, Psychoacoustics, Neuroscience & Singing, Musical & Academic Collaboration

Research interests: Arts and health, particularly the potential value of group singing for health and wellbeing.

Research interests: Manual therapy in speech-language pathology, voice intervention, laryngeal disorders, breathing disorders, oral motor dysfunction, and related communities.

Research interests: Gender Affirming Voice/Gender Affirming Surgery, Motor Learning, Mental Practice, Gender Studies in Vocal Music, Vocal Anatomy & Physiology, Voice Science, Vocal Pedagogy, Music Education, Singing Voice Rehabilitation, Neuroscience of Singing, Technology in Voice Pedagogy, Historical Vocal Pedagogy, Culturally Responsive Voice Pedagogy, Cultural Influences on Vocal Styles, Inclusive Vocal Pedagogy 

Research interests: prosody and phonetics, social aspects of the performing voice, vocal education (speech and singing), the multimodal use of voice and body in performance, phonetics and phonology of natural conversation.

Research interests: Cognitive and emotional influences in vocal production with a personal interest in functional dysphonia, influence of the voice on the sense of self, use of psychophysiological tools such as electroencephalogram, heart-rate related measures, respiratory measures, electromyography, and skin conductance measures that integrate with classic acoustic and aerodynamic voice measures.

Research Interests: Voice pedagogy, voice acoustics, voice physiology, psychology of performance, motor learning, vocal literature

Research interests: The History of Voice Pedagogy, Vocal Traditions, Voice and Identity, and Practitioner Research in Voice Studies. For seven years, Rockford was the editor of the academic journal Voice and Speech Review.

Research interests: Voice for transgender singers, classical, musical theatre, contemporary styles, voice pedagogy, voice science.

Research interests: physiology and acoustics of vocal technique and voice rehabilitation.

Research interest: mindfulness and singing voice; mindfulness and voice disorders; influence of interoception on vocal behavior; qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies; mindfulness, voice, and neurodivergence; mindfulness and music performance anxiety (MPA)

Research interests: Vocal functionality and organology of voice, application of accent breathing for singers, use of vibratory devices on the larynx to aid laryngeal release and relaxation, examination to changes in vibrato over different vowel sounds, examination of a singer’s feedback system, vocal care and rehabilitation.