David Hargreaves is Professor of Education and Froebel Research Fellow at Roehampton University, and Visiting Professor at the Inter-University Institute of Macau, and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2004. He has been Editor of Psychology of Music, Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, His books, in psychology, education, the arts, and music have been translated into 15 languages. He has appeared on BBC TV and radio as a jazz pianist and composer, and is organist at his local village church, but really ought to do more jazz playing than he currently has time for. He supports his home League 2 team, Accrington Stanley.

The Social and Applied Psychology of Music, by Adrian North and David Hargreaves (Oxford University Press, 2008), is a comprehensive guide to the topics covered in this talk. David teaches on the Masters’ degree programme in Applied Music Psychology at Roehampton University, which was launched in 2008, and which is growing rapidly, attracting an increasing cohort of students from the UK and overseas.