Professor Emery Schubert
PhD (Music)
.Research expertise includes:
- Emotion in music;
 - Empirical aesthetics;
 - Music health and wellbeing;
 - Continuous response to music and dance;
 - Cognitive modelling of aesthetic experience;
 - Creativity
 - Statistical analysis techniques applied to questions concerning empirical aesthetics
 
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Teaching experience in nearly all music related courses.
Considerable Honours and postgraduate research supervision experience.
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- Publications
 - Media
 - Grants
 - Awards
 - Research Activities
 - Engagement
 - Teaching and Supervision
 
Over 20 years of successful grant income exceeding AUD$5m, mostly from various Australian Research Council schemes, and all collaborative in nature.
Please seeÌý
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- Humanities, Arts & Literature -ÌýIndividual Leader in Field of Music and Musicology (The Australian’s Research magazine) - twice (2020 and 2022)
 - Stanford’s World’s Top 2% Researchers (2023)
 - Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award (ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Australia) - twice
 - ARC Future Fellowship (4 years)
 - ARC Australian Research Fellowship (5 years)
 - 10th Anniversary Award, European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
 - ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Vice-Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship (3 awarded out of 132 applicants) (3 years)
 - Thesis writing award for best PhD thesis in the Faculty ($10,000 cash prize).
 - Alumni Award for Achievement, University of New South Wales, Alumni AssociationÌý
 
For convenient access to research outputs, please see link to Google Scholar.
Or visit : orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-8083.
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Sample research and media activity...
- Earworms:Ìý/newsroom/news/2023/04/ear-resistible--why-there-are-some-songs-we-simply-can-t-get-out
 - Music and sleep:Ìý
 - Music and acoustics:Ìý
 
Empirical Musicology Laboratory:Ìý/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/arts-media/our-research/research-hubs-networks/empirical-musicology
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My Research Supervision
InÌý2024 I supervised 3 postgraduate students and 4 honours across a range of interdisciplinary topics, including music, emotion and wellbeing.
If you areÌýinterested honours or postgraduate research in music psychology or a related area, and have sufficient qualifications, you are warmly invited to contact me. ÌýScholarships mayÌýalso be available.
My Teaching
In recent years:
MUSC3102 - Psychology of Music
GENT0508 - Music on My Mind: Psychology and music
HUMS1009 - Sounds Good: Music, Pleasure and Well-being
MUSC2001- Good Sounds Feel Better: Music and Musicians for Wellbeing and Healthcare Settings
MUSC1604 - Western Music: a Panorama
MUSC3807 - MusiCultures
MUSC2113 - The Function of Music in Film (until 2023)
MUSC3162 -ÌýTwentieth Century Music
Guest lectures in Performance Laboratory classes
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Other courses convened or taught include:
MUSC4706 Music Ensembles
MUSC2332 - Electronic Music
MUSC1603 - Materials and Structures 2
MUSC5138 - Method and Techniques (no longer available)
University of New South Wales Orchestra (replaced by MUSC4706 Music Ensembles)