I completed my honours psychology degree at the University of York where I studied the effect of music in computer games and my MA in the Psychology of Music MA where I investigated music and driving behaviour. In 2004 I was awarded a Studentship to study musical memory, with Profs. Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch. My first postdoc was an ESRC Fellowship where I studied memory in congenital amusia (tone deafness). I spent 2011 – 2013 working as a lecturer, researcher and course director on the MSc in Music, Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths, including as a Leverhulme Associate From 2013 -2014 I was Visiting Professor of Performance Science at the Hochschule Luzern (Switzerland). It was a pleasure to work among the fine researchers at the Hochschule Luzern – Musik. Through to 2021 we worked on a Swiss National Science Foundation grant, looking at the role of critical review in the modern classical music market. In September 2014 I was Visiting Fellow for the School of Advanced Study at the University of London and from 2014 to 2017, I was the Vice Chancellor’s Fellow for Music at the University of Sheffield (UK). In 2017 I was promoted to a full-time Lectureship in Music Psychology. In 2015 I launched Music and Wellbeing at an event lead by Professor Lord Robert Winston and Nordoff Robbins. In that year I was also based at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, with Professor Betsy Marvin including a speaking tour, visiting Bucknell, Buffalo, Tufts, Northwestern and Cornell, amongst others. I took maternity leave from May 2017 – July 2018 and March 2019 – April 2020, and enjoyed the early years of my children’s lives. This marked a turning point in my career/ life goals. From September 2020, I worked as an independent academic, conducting research and writing about music psychology and music wellness. In 2022 I co-founded Audicin, a work productivity star-up company that aims to provide auditory soundtracks for nervous system regulation that boost work performance by effectively alleviating multiple wellbeing issues including stress, anxiety, and insomnia. Our aim is to become a medically registered device for music wellbeing provision across the EU and US.  Personal: I trained in classical guitar although I enjoy learning all instruments. I spend my spare time cooking (I worked as a sous chef to pay for university), dancing (especially salsa. merengue and bachata), and reading biographies and travelogues. I love to travel (in normal times) and I aim to visit as much of the world as possible in my allotted time. I live in Barcelona (Spain) with my dear husband Oscar, my spirited Penelope (born May 2017) and my sweet Antony (born April 2019). Book V.Williamson You Are The Music. How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human Peer reviewed papers (37) Book chapters Conference papers Articles for non-specialist audiences