Professor John Sloboda is Emeritus Professor at the Guildhall School, where he was founder of its Institute for Social Impact Research in the Performing Arts. He was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project "Music for Social Impact: Practitioners' contexts, work, and beliefs" from 2020-2023, and from 2009-2019 led Guildhall School's "Understanding Audiences" research programme. He is Emeritus Professor at Keele and was a staff member of the School of Psychology at Keele from 1974-2008, where he was Director of its Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development, founded in 1991. John is internationally known for his work on the psychology of music. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has been President of both the Psychology and General Sections of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. He served a 3-year term as founding President of www.simm-platform.eu, an international platform for research into the Social Impact of Making Music. He was the recipient of the 1998 British Psychological Society's Presidents Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge, and in 2004 he was elected to Fellowship of the British Academy. In 2018, he was awarded an OBE for his services to psychology and music. His books include Handbook of Music and Emotion (co-edited with Patrik Juslin), and Exploring the Musical Mind, both published by Oxford University Press. He continues a close association with Guildhall School, where he is currently co-supervising three doctoral students.
CORRELATES OF COMMITMENT AND JUDGED SELF COMPETENCE AMONG SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUSIC PRACTITIONERS
Sloboda, J. (2022). CORRELATES OF COMMITMENT AND JUDGED SELF COMPETENCE AMONG SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUSIC PRACTITIONERS. Poster session presented at Society for Music Education and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), London, United Kingdom.
2022
View OutputMusic for Social Impact: an overview of context, policy and activity in four countries, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, and the UK
Sloboda, J., Westerlund, H., Baker, G., Bisschop, A. D., Zapata Restrepo, G. P., Gibson, J., Karttunen, S., Van Zilj, A., Castro, J., Rojas, H. S., & Mazzola, A. (2020). Music for Social Impact: an overview of context, policy and activity in four countries, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, and the UK. Finnish Journal of Music Education, 23(1-2).
2020
View OutputThe SIMM research landscape: An analysis of research presented at SIMM events in 2017, 2018, 2019 : [closing address]
Sloboda, J. (2019). The SIMM research landscape: An analysis of research presented at SIMM events in 2017, 2018, 2019 : [closing address]. Paper presented at The 4th SIMMposium, Bogota, Colombia.
2019
View OutputThe audience as artist? The audience’s experience of participatory music
Sloboda, J., & Toelle, J. (2019). The audience as artist? The audience’s experience of participatory music. Musicae Scientiae.
2019
View Output"Classical music borrowing from other arts: new strategies for audience building through performance" In Music, Speech, and Mind
Sloboda, J., Ford, B., & Correra, A. F. (Ed.) (2019). "Classical music borrowing from other arts: new strategies for audience building through performance" In Music, Speech, and Mind. Brazilian Association of Cognition and Musical Arts.
2019
View Output25 years of ESCOM: achievements and challenges
Sloboda, J., & Ginsborg, J. (2018). 25 years of ESCOM: achievements and challenges. Musicae Scientiae.
2018
View OutputThe improvisational state of mind: a multidisciplinary study of an improvisatory approach to classical music repertoire performance
Sloboda, J., & Dolan, D. (2018). The improvisational state of mind: a multidisciplinary study of an improvisatory approach to classical music repertoire performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.
2018
View OutputClassical musicians borrowing from other arts: new strategies for audience building through performance
Sloboda, J., & Ford, B. (2018). Classical musicians borrowing from other arts: new strategies for audience building through performance. Music, Sound, and Mind.
2018
View OutputAudience reactions to repeating a piece on a concert programme
Sloboda, J., Halpern, A., Chan, C., & Ilensiefen, D. (2017). Audience reactions to repeating a piece on a concert programme. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 14(2), 135-152.
2017
View OutputConservatoires in society: Institutional challenges and possibilities for change
Tregear, P., Johansen, G., Jorgensen, H., Sloboda, J., Tulve, H., & Wistreich, R. (2016). Conservatoires in society: Institutional challenges and possibilities for change. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 15(3-4), 276-292.
2016
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