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Background and aims of the Society

The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (Sempre) was founded in 1972, growing out of the Reading Conferences on Research in Music Education that were started in 1966 by Arnold Bentley. Originally known as the 'Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education' ('SRPMME'), Sempre remains to this day the only society which embraces research in both music education and music psychology, providing an international forum to encourage the exchange of ideas and to disseminate research findings.

Activities

Sempre is engaged in three main areas of activity:

Publications: Three journals (M&S, PoM, RSME); a major book series (see: Routledge-Sempre Book Series); a conference series
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Conferences

New Joint Editors in Chief, Psychology of Music

We are delighted to announce that Dr Nikki Moran and Dr Michelle Phillips have taken on the role of joint Editors in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music. Dr Moran is currently Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh, and is an interdisciplinary researcher with specialism in music in and as social interaction. She brings together specialist musicological skills and psychological research methods, and her work spans topics including the psychology of musical performance and communication, embodied music cognition, and musical multimedia data capture and analysis. Dr Phillips is currently Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology and Head of Enterprise (Academic) at the Royal Northern College of Music. Her research interests include audience response to live and recorded music, neurological response to music listening and performance, music and time, perception of contemporary music, entrepreneurship, and music and Parkinson's. They assume joint responsibility for the journal from 1 October 2024, supported by an able team of Assistant and Associate Editors and an international Editorial Board.

A warm welcome to the new co-editor of RSME

It is with great pleasure that the SEMPRE Trustees welcome Dr Alexis Kallio, currently Deputy Director (Research) at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University to the newly created post of Co-Editor of our journal Research Studies in Music Education, published by Sage. Alexis joins our established editor, Dr Julie Ballantyne, of the University of Queensland School of Music, to create a new editorial leadership team. We wish them every success in the continued development of one of the world's leading music education journals.

Psychology of Music and the latest impact factor results

Psychology of Music journal cover We are delighted to announce that Psychology of Music has seen an impact factor increase in the recently published impact factor result tables (Source: 2019 Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports [Web of Science Group, 2020]).