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
Teaching experience in nearly all music related courses.
Considerable Honours and postgraduate research supervision experience.
- 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.
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- Humanities, Arts & Literature - Individual Leader in Field of Music and Musicology (The Australian’s Research magazine) - twice (2020 and 2022)
- Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award (UNSW Australia) - twice
- ARC Future Fellowship (4 years)
- ARC Australian Research Fellowship (5 years)
- 10th Anniversary Award, European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
- UNSW 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 Association
My Research Supervision
In 2024 I supervised 3 postgraduate students and 4 honours.
If you are interested honours or postgraduate research in music psychology or a related area, and have sufficient qualifications, you are warmly invited to contact me. Scholarships may also 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 - Twentieth Century Music
Guest lectures in Performance Laboratory classes
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)