Dr Michelle Phillips
@michelle-phillips.bsky.social
🎵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
Www.WhyHumansNeedMusic.com
🧬 Research: audiences, live music, music & Parkinson’s, music & neuroscience
🎓PhD Uni of Cambridge
📊Accountant 🎷Saxophonist
Www.WhyHumansNeedMusic.com
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!
Our @rncmlive.bsky.social students rocked the stage with their music!
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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!
Our @rncmlive.bsky.social students rocked the stage with their music!
“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!
Awesome performances & a wonderful chance for our incredible students to work with this musical legend!
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“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!
Awesome performances & a wonderful chance for our incredible students to work with this musical legend!
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...
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
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...
Excited about tomorrow when John Adams visits us for 2 performances of his music @rncmlive.bsky.social
www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...
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
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
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
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
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
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
🧠 🎵 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
🧠 🎵 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
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Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower
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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Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower
Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower
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
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
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
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
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/...
#PPI #Parkinsons
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 24, 2025 at 8:58 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/...
#PPI #Parkinsons
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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!
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
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!
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!
🥇 🏆 🎵 💡 🧬
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
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
🥇 🏆 🎵 💡 🧬
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
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
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! 🏆🥇💪
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
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! 🏆🥇💪
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! 🏆🥇💪
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
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
Revelling in a holiday that includes the celebration of all things Disney, film and music #DisneyWorldOrlando #DisneyHollywoodStudios #DisneySoul 🐭 🎵 🎥
July 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Revelling in a holiday that includes the celebration of all things Disney, film and music #DisneyWorldOrlando #DisneyHollywoodStudios #DisneySoul 🐭 🎵 🎥
Thanks BBC Songs of Praise for featuring our music & neuroscience work on your ‘Power of Music’ show today.
It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)
It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)
June 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thanks BBC Songs of Praise for featuring our music & neuroscience work on your ‘Power of Music’ show today.
It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)
It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)
📺 🎵 This Sunday 1.15pm, our music & neuroscience research will be on BBC Songs of Praise 🎵 📺
This is a collaborative project put together with these amazing researchers:
Ana Marta Pacheco Aguiar
Dan Baczkowski
Stephen Ball
Sam Roberts
Dr Jason Taylor
Aestus String Quartet
@rncmlive.bsky.social
This is a collaborative project put together with these amazing researchers:
Ana Marta Pacheco Aguiar
Dan Baczkowski
Stephen Ball
Sam Roberts
Dr Jason Taylor
Aestus String Quartet
@rncmlive.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
📺 🎵 This Sunday 1.15pm, our music & neuroscience research will be on BBC Songs of Praise 🎵 📺
This is a collaborative project put together with these amazing researchers:
Ana Marta Pacheco Aguiar
Dan Baczkowski
Stephen Ball
Sam Roberts
Dr Jason Taylor
Aestus String Quartet
@rncmlive.bsky.social
This is a collaborative project put together with these amazing researchers:
Ana Marta Pacheco Aguiar
Dan Baczkowski
Stephen Ball
Sam Roberts
Dr Jason Taylor
Aestus String Quartet
@rncmlive.bsky.social
Fab evening at the Sage summer party at Natural History Museum London
Champagne, live jazz, and lots of fascinating people. Brill welcome: “Education and scholarship are tools to shape a better world.”
Loving being joint Editor in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music with Nikki Moran 🥂 🎵 📕 🦕
Champagne, live jazz, and lots of fascinating people. Brill welcome: “Education and scholarship are tools to shape a better world.”
Loving being joint Editor in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music with Nikki Moran 🥂 🎵 📕 🦕
June 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Fab evening at the Sage summer party at Natural History Museum London
Champagne, live jazz, and lots of fascinating people. Brill welcome: “Education and scholarship are tools to shape a better world.”
Loving being joint Editor in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music with Nikki Moran 🥂 🎵 📕 🦕
Champagne, live jazz, and lots of fascinating people. Brill welcome: “Education and scholarship are tools to shape a better world.”
Loving being joint Editor in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music with Nikki Moran 🥂 🎵 📕 🦕
Fab fun day filming with BBC Songs of Praise. They’re covering our music & neuroscience work, & our brain data visualisation of how we respond to live performance. It’ll be part of their ‘Power of Music’ show, probably going out on Sunday 22nd June. @canadianjason.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Fab fun day filming with BBC Songs of Praise. They’re covering our music & neuroscience work, & our brain data visualisation of how we respond to live performance. It’ll be part of their ‘Power of Music’ show, probably going out on Sunday 22nd June. @canadianjason.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social
Stimulating article in today’s @theguardian.com, ‘how to be a better person’, on ‘moral ambition’: “the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your working life to the great challenges of our time […] It’s the longing to make a difference,& to build a legacy that truly matters.”
April 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Stimulating article in today’s @theguardian.com, ‘how to be a better person’, on ‘moral ambition’: “the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your working life to the great challenges of our time […] It’s the longing to make a difference,& to build a legacy that truly matters.”
What an absolute honour & joy to be part of this A list conference chair team for the SEMPRE 2025 annual conference at our RNCM.
@musojane.bsky.social
@alexlamont.bsky.social
Thanks all for a stimulating 2 days!
#SEMPRE
@journals.sagepub.com
@rncmlive.bsky.social
www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
@musojane.bsky.social
@alexlamont.bsky.social
Thanks all for a stimulating 2 days!
#SEMPRE
@journals.sagepub.com
@rncmlive.bsky.social
www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
April 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What an absolute honour & joy to be part of this A list conference chair team for the SEMPRE 2025 annual conference at our RNCM.
@musojane.bsky.social
@alexlamont.bsky.social
Thanks all for a stimulating 2 days!
#SEMPRE
@journals.sagepub.com
@rncmlive.bsky.social
www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
@musojane.bsky.social
@alexlamont.bsky.social
Thanks all for a stimulating 2 days!
#SEMPRE
@journals.sagepub.com
@rncmlive.bsky.social
www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...
Thank you Queen's University Belfast for inviting me to talk today on ‘Living with Parkinson’s: How can music help?’
I feel honoured to work on this, with colleagues at Royal Northern College of Music, collaborators in the UK @beamlab.bsky.social &
Lucerne, & people living with Parkinson’s
I feel honoured to work on this, with colleagues at Royal Northern College of Music, collaborators in the UK @beamlab.bsky.social &
Lucerne, & people living with Parkinson’s
March 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Thank you Queen's University Belfast for inviting me to talk today on ‘Living with Parkinson’s: How can music help?’
I feel honoured to work on this, with colleagues at Royal Northern College of Music, collaborators in the UK @beamlab.bsky.social &
Lucerne, & people living with Parkinson’s
I feel honoured to work on this, with colleagues at Royal Northern College of Music, collaborators in the UK @beamlab.bsky.social &
Lucerne, & people living with Parkinson’s
Spent the weekend with my Equinox Sax friends and legends recording our music thanks to a team of wonderful Tonmeister sound engineers!
We owe so much to the legacy of the incredible Jean-Marie Londeix, very sad to hear that he has passed away. Thank you, Monsieur Londeix 🎷
www.equinoxsax.org.uk
We owe so much to the legacy of the incredible Jean-Marie Londeix, very sad to hear that he has passed away. Thank you, Monsieur Londeix 🎷
www.equinoxsax.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Spent the weekend with my Equinox Sax friends and legends recording our music thanks to a team of wonderful Tonmeister sound engineers!
We owe so much to the legacy of the incredible Jean-Marie Londeix, very sad to hear that he has passed away. Thank you, Monsieur Londeix 🎷
www.equinoxsax.org.uk
We owe so much to the legacy of the incredible Jean-Marie Londeix, very sad to hear that he has passed away. Thank you, Monsieur Londeix 🎷
www.equinoxsax.org.uk
Thanks BBC Radio 5 Live @bbc5live.bsky.social for coverage (around 8.30am today) of the music for Parkinson’s project, when we invited 7 RNCM composers to work with people with Parkinson’s to create new music
February 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thanks BBC Radio 5 Live @bbc5live.bsky.social for coverage (around 8.30am today) of the music for Parkinson’s project, when we invited 7 RNCM composers to work with people with Parkinson’s to create new music
Really proud of bringing together our wonderful Royal Northern College of Music composers and people living with Parkinson’s to make new music.
We had a wonderful concert premiering the 7 new pieces of music last night, and we’re really grateful to BBC North West for covering this project! 🎵 📺
We had a wonderful concert premiering the 7 new pieces of music last night, and we’re really grateful to BBC North West for covering this project! 🎵 📺
January 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Really proud of bringing together our wonderful Royal Northern College of Music composers and people living with Parkinson’s to make new music.
We had a wonderful concert premiering the 7 new pieces of music last night, and we’re really grateful to BBC North West for covering this project! 🎵 📺
We had a wonderful concert premiering the 7 new pieces of music last night, and we’re really grateful to BBC North West for covering this project! 🎵 📺
At the BBC today to record an interview for Tom Service’s Radio 3 show tomorrow (Sat) 9am, on music & health. I discuss my work with collaborators on music & Parkinson’s and our 30th Jan event 6-7pm premiering 7 new pieces of music written with people with Parkinson’s: www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...
January 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
At the BBC today to record an interview for Tom Service’s Radio 3 show tomorrow (Sat) 9am, on music & health. I discuss my work with collaborators on music & Parkinson’s and our 30th Jan event 6-7pm premiering 7 new pieces of music written with people with Parkinson’s: www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...