Musical Imaginations

Edited by David Hargreaves, Professor of Education, Roehampton University, UK, Dorothy Miell, Professor of Social Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Raymond MacDonald, Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation, School of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

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.

Dorothy Miell is Vice Principal at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science within the University. Previously she was Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Sciences at The Open University where she was a member of the multidisciplinary Music Research Group. Starting with her doctoral research on communication patterns in developing relationships she has developed an increasing interest in studying how people collaborate on creative activities, working across boundaries between Music, Education, Social and Developmental Psychology and with colleagues in the UK and internationally. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Thinking Skills and Creativity, Psychology of Music, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Raymond MacDonald is Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Glasgow Caledonian University. After completing his PhD at the University of Glasgow, investigating therapeutic applications of music, he worked as Artistic Director for a music company, Sounds of Progress, specialising in working with people who have special needs. His ongoing research focuses on issues relating to improvisation, musical communication, music therapy, music education and musical identities. He has co-edited two texts with Dorothy Miell and David Hargreaves, Musical Identities (2002) and Musical Communication (2005) and is currently working on two new books, Music Health and Wellbeing and Musical Imaginations. He is currently Editor of the journal Psychology of Music and Associate Editor for The International Journal of Music Education, Jazz Research Journal and Research Studies in Music Education. As a composer and saxophonist he has recorded over 50 CDs and has toured and broadcast worldwide.

Dr Aleksandar Aksentijevic, Department of Psychology, Whitelands College, Roehampton University, UK
Associate Professor Esa Ala-Ruona, Music Therapy Clinic for Research and Training, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Vanya Green Assuied, MA, MT-BC , UCLA Pediatric Pain Program and Chase Child Life Program, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, USA
Professor Margaret Barrett, School of Music, University of Queensland, Australia
David Castle, University of Melbourne and St Vincent's Hospital, Australia
Dr Terry Clark, Royal College of Music, UK
Professor Eric Clarke, Faculty of Music, St Aldates, UK
Dr Lori A. Custodero, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027
Professor Annabel Cohen, Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Professor Nicholas Cook, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Tia De Nora, Department of Sociology & Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK
Professor Jaakko Erkkilä, Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland
Dr Jörg Fachner, Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Professor Göran Folkestad, Musikhögskolan i Malmö, Sweden
Professor Simon Frith, Music, School of Arts, Culture & Environment, University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Dr Vanya Green, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, USA
Professor Denise Grocke, Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor John Gruzelier Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Professor David Hargreaves, Applied Music Research Centre, Roehampton University, UK
Dr Jonathan James Hargreaves, University of York, UK
Dr Juniper Hill, University College, Cork, Ireland and Cambridge University, UK
Dr Karin Johansson, Musikhögskolan i Malmö, Sweden
Dr Shira Lee Katz, 15 Old Landing Road Tiburon, CA 94920 USA
Professor Vladimir Kone?ni Department of Psychology University of California, USA
Professor Karen Littleton, Faculty of Education and Language Studies Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning, UK
Professor Raymond MacDonald, School of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Professor Neil Mercer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Dorothy Miell, College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, USA
Professor Adam Ockelford, Applied Music Research Centre, Roehampton University, Southlands College, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5SL UK
Dr Katie Overy, Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, School of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Marko Punkanen, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Dr Emery Schubert, School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Ian Sutherland, IEDC - Bled School of Management, Slovenia
Dr Mari Tervaniemi, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute for Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland and Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, The School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, UK
Dr Bradley Vines, Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada
Professor Graham Welch, Department of Arts and Humanities Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Professor Tony Wigram, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and PhD Programme in Music Therapy, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, UK
Dr Graeme Wilson, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, UK