David Hargreaves

David Hargreaves retired in August 2017 from his positions as Professor of Education and Froebel Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, London. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology at Curtin University, Western Australia.

He was Editor of Psychology of Music 1989–96, Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 1994–6, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His books, in psychology, education, the arts, and music have been translated into 16 languages. These include the recently-published Handbook of Musical Identities (co-edited with Raymond MacDonald and Dorothy Miell, Oxford UP, 2017), and The Psychology of Musical Development, co-authored with Alexandra Lamont, which is scheduled for publication by Cambridge UP in June 2017. This is a complete rethink and rewrite, 31 years later, of David’s book The Developmental Psychology of Music (1986).

David has appeared on BBC TV and radio as a jazz pianist and composer, and is organist on his local church circuit in Cambridgeshire. In 2004 he was awarded an honorary D.Phil. by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This was the first time such an award had been made by the University in the field of music education and was in recognition of his ‘most important contribution towards the creation of a research department of music education’ in the School of Music and Music Education in the University of Gothenburg.