SEMPRE is pleased to confirm the new Editorial Team for Psychology of Music from 2023 of Professor Alexandra Lamont, Editor in Chief, and her new Assistant Editors, Dr Karen Wise and Dr Katerina Drakoulaki. The journal is moving to a more devolved Action (Associate) Editor system and we now have a new and growing group of Associate Editors who are handling selection of reviewers and recommendations on articles. We look forward to building on the strengths of the journal and thanks are due to the outgoing team of Professor Andrea Creech (Editor) and Dr Paolo Ammirante (Assistant Editor).

Below is more information about the new team:

Alexandra is Professor of Music Psychology at Keele University, where she has worked for the past 21 years. Her background is in music, education, and psychology, and her research interests span a range of methods and topics including musical identity, musical development, everyday engagement with music, music preferences, and music and wellbeing. She has been involved with SEMPRE since 1990 as publicity officer, associate editor, and a Trustee, and served a former term as Editor of Psychology of Music from 2012-2016.

Karen is Research Fellow and Lecturer in Psychology at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. Previously, she was Research Associate in the Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice at the University of Cambridge. She was also Teaching Fellow in Psychology at Keele University, where she was awarded her PhD. Her research interests broadly concern musical performance, development, identity and training in adults, from elite performers to self-identified non-singers. She is also a classical singer and trained at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Katerina is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Linguistics and Music Studies Departments of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Her background is in linguistics, music performance, and speech and language therapy. She trained in classical piano performance at the National Conservatory of Athens, and obtained her MSc in Speech and Language Therapy from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She obtained a PhD from NKUA studying the linguistic, cognitive, and music skills of pre-school children. Her research interests cover connections between music and language, cross-cultural music cognition, disorders in music abilities, music training for skill transfer, and open science and reproducibility practices.

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