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Professor Emery Schubert

Professor Emery Schubert

Professor

PhD (Music)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

.Research expertise includes:

  • Emotion in music;
  • Empirical aesthetics;
  • Music health and wellbeing;
  • Continuous response to music and dance;
  • Cognitive modelling of aesthetic experience;
  • Creativity
  • Statistical analysis techniques applied to questions concerning empirical aesthetics

 

Teaching experience in nearly all music related courses.

Considerable Honours and postgraduate research supervision experience.

 
Phone
+61 2 9385 6808
E-mail
e.schubert@unsw.edu.au
Location
101, Level 1 Robert Webster

Over 20 years of successful grant income exceeding AUD$5m, mostly from various Australian Research Council schemes, and all collaborative in nature.

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  • Humanities, Arts & Literature - Individual Leader in Field of Music and Musicology (The Australian’s Research magazine) - twice (2020 and 2022)
  • Stanford’s World’s Top 2% Researchers (2023)
  • Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Award (UNSW Australia) - twice
  • ARC Future Fellowship (4 years)
  • ARC Australian Research Fellowship (5 years)
  • 10th Anniversary Award, European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
  • UNSW Vice-Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship (3 awarded out of 132 applicants) (3 years)
  • Thesis writing award for best PhD thesis in the Faculty ($10,000 cash prize).
  • Alumni Award for Achievement, University of New South Wales, Alumni Association 

For convenient access to research outputs, please see this link to Google Scholar.

Or visit ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-8083.

 

 

Sample research activity...

https://research.unsw.edu.au/projects/fine-tuning-emotion-music

https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/arts-media/our-research/research-hubs-networks/empirical-musicology

 

My Research Supervision

In 2024 I supervised 3 postgraduate students and 4 honours across a range of interdisciplinary topics, including music, emotion and wellbeing.

If you are interested honours or postgraduate research in music psychology or a related area, and have sufficient qualifications, you are warmly invited to contact me.  Scholarships may also be available.

My Teaching

In recent years:
MUSC3102 - Psychology of Music

GENT0508 - Music on My Mind: Psychology and music

HUMS1009 - Sounds Good: Music, Pleasure and Well-being

MUSC2001- Good Sounds Feel Better: Music and Musicians for Wellbeing and Healthcare Settings

MUSC1604 - Western Music: a Panorama

MUSC3807 - MusiCultures

MUSC2113 - The Function of Music in Film (until 2023)

MUSC3162 - Twentieth Century Music

Guest lectures in Performance Laboratory classes

 

Other courses convened or taught include:

MUSC4706 Music Ensembles

MUSC2332 - Electronic Music

MUSC1603 - Materials and Structures 2

MUSC5138 - Method and Techniques (no longer available)

University of New South Wales Orchestra (replaced by MUSC4706 Music Ensembles)