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Dr Michelle Phillips
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🎵Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology & Head of Enterprise, Royal Northern College of Music UK
🧬 Research: audiences, live music, music & Parkinson’s, music & neuroscience
🎓PhD Uni of Cambridge
📊Accountant 🎷Saxophonist

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Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower
Over the moon to win the Alan Turning Award at last night’s ’I Love Manchester’ ceremony, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals & organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking’ 😃 🏆

Our @rncmlive.bsky.social students rocked the stage with their music!
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Fully funded #PhD at RNCM alert!
RNCM + partners in the the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College are offering 30 AHRC studentships exploring care, creativity & community💡
💰 £20,780 stipend + fees covered
📅 EOI: 1 Dec 2025
👉 rncm.ac.uk/news
#DoctoralFunding #MusicResearch
News - Royal Northern College of Music
Keep up to date with the latest news and announcements from the Royal Northern College of Music.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“Manchester has been a musical explosion!” -John Adams after the concert ‘Hallé Chamber Series: John Adams Chamber Symphony’ just now at our @rncmlive.bsky.social with Hallé & RNCM musicians

Awesome performances & a wonderful chance for our incredible students to work with this musical legend!
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What a special opportunity tonight - to see & hear John Adams conducting his music with the awesome Halle orchestra at the wonderful @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social!

Excited about tomorrow when John Adams visits us for 2 performances of his music @rncmlive.bsky.social

www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...
October 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Great to deliver this KTP50 talk today! Thanks Sinead (MMU), Clare (Uni of Manc Innovation Factory) & Paul (Uni of Salford)

It’s been fab to work on our CCF RED TTO project funded by Research England on IP, commercialisation &
consultancy
@rncmlive.bsky.social
@rncmresearch.bsky.social
#KTP2025
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🧠 🎵 🪩 New blog post by me & Jason Taylor: 🪩 🎵 🧠 @canadianjason.bsky.social

www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/self-es...

We had the utter joy of seeing @selfesteem.music-social.com ‘s ‘A Complicated Woman’ show-Great to see what we know from our research on live music in action!

#AComplicatedWoman
Self Esteem and the power of live music (by Michelle Phillips and Jason Taylor)
“All the days you get to have are big”So broadcast the poster that many of us left gig venues around the UK with recently - a reminder of the joy of each day, and of living life to the full. But it’s ...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What a wonderful talk this was - utterly stimulating, & so relevant & important to everything we do at @rncmlive.bsky.social. And a brill evening in great company, thanks Ian and David (you were with us in spirit, Katya!). Fab to round off with whiskey with Ian & Jason @canadianjason.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
🧠 🎵 Great to talk to John Pienaar on Times Radio today about this amazing story of Denise, who played her clarinet while undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery to help with her Parkinson’s symptoms: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🎵 🧠 @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🌟 We’re hiring! 🌟 Are you interested in memory, cognitive training, & healthy ageing? We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ814/r...
👉 0.5 FTE (2.5 days/week), 4 months (likely from 01/26)
👉 Annual salary £32,080 to £33,002 (pro-rata)
👉 Based in Sheffield, UK
Research Assistant - Cognitive Ability & Plasticity Lab at University of Sheffield
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Assistant - Cognitive Ability & Plasticity Lab opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🎵 ☠️ New blog: Music in Traitors Mansion ☠️ 🎵

“As we romp merrily through this awesome series, we have a rich chance to acknowledge & celebrate what music does for us, & for everyone who’s Faithful to this bananas & mesmerising show”

#CelebrityTraitors

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Music in Traitors Mansion
It’s finally here, and it’s bigger than ever - Celebrity Traitors. And all of the rumours about the A-list line up of players were true. What a show we’re in for!The first two episodes, broadcast this...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower
October 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...
Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
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October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Incredible Music, Movement, Mood & Parkinson’s symposium at @hslu-luzern.bsky.social Switzerland, led by the magnificent Prof Dawn Rose.

Here, Jane talked about our concerts in Lucerne & @rncmlive.bsky.social

Very proud to have been invited to be part of the final panel! @beamlab.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence
Research Assistant at UCL
Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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September 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).

📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025

👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418

Please share!
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Chuffed that our music and Parkinson’s paper on ‘The Use of Music Among Swiss People with Parkinson’s: A Mixed Methods Survey and Comparison to the UK Findings’ led by the wonderful Prof Dawn Rose and with lots of fab collaborators, is now out!

#PPI #Parkinsons

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Some photos of @kateywarran.bsky.social speaking at The Royal Institution @rigb.org alongside @michelle-phillips.bsky.social @rosielperkins.bsky.social & Ming Hsu for the ABRSM symposium
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Bucket list moment! 🪣 🤩

Tonight I presented at The Royal Institution in London! I was hosting a panel for an ABRSM Music, Health and Wellbeing symposium - what an honour to be asked! I’m buzzing!

Now returning to Manchester to continue week 1 of our new @rncmlive.bsky.social academic year!
September 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Honoured to be shortlisted for the I Love Manchester ‘Alan Turing Award’, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals and organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking.’

Voting is open here until 3rd October 2025 ilovemanchester.com/awards
September 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We won!

Total joy to work with
Suneel Kunamaneni (Uni of Manchester), Ambarin Asad (Uni of Salford) & Catherine Brentnall (Manchester Met Uni) to run an entrepreneurship event for students from all 4 institutions

Our paper won Best in Track at the International Enterprise Ed Conference 2025! 🏆🥇💪
September 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Absolutely glorious time at International Enterprise Educators Conference 2025! #EEUK #IEEC2025

Great to catch up with fab friends & present two papers with collaborators: first on our Manchester Unhackathon, & second on our EEUK Impact Award funded project on music enterprise education in schools
September 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🎵☀️New blog: A summer of music☀️🎵

www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/a-summe...

From #Oasis gigs enjoyed from my garden, to music & our football champions, #DannyElfman’s music for Universal’s new #EpicUniverse theme park, the Proms, #TaylorSwift & #FreakierFriday -what a glorious summer of music!
A summer of music
‘Summer’, wrote Harper Lee in her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, ‘was our best season.’ There’s certainly a nostalgic quality to our summer memories – formed during those warm, drawn-out evening...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
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July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance.
#FanStudies #AudienceResearch
TV Survey
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August 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9

@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social

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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation
Job Offer from August 11, 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM