If you're an academic I highly recommend reading this very, very comprehensive review. It cites over 100 studies incl some I didn't know: eg that women are required to re-write their journal submissions so much more than men that it add an avg of 6 months to their submissions 😱

Happy #WomenInScienceDay Ladies 😌💅 #AcademicChatter

Poor guy was so sick this week-- I was getting ready to say goodbye, but he has rallied back amazingly and I'm so grateful! Please enjoy the miraculous Smokey in all his fluffy splendor.

Required listening: the latest episode of The Cut to hear Angela Chen talk about asexuality and relationships beyond romantic and platonic ones. I'm so excited for all of the good that this will do for asexuality! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Look what came in the post today! New textbook by Aaron Williamon, Jane Ginsborg, Prof Rosie Perkins, and George Waddell that gets into the weeds of how to understand and conduct music performance research. 🎉

Excited to work with George Waddell Neta Spiro HappityApp Sunita Sharma to investigate how online songwriting can support new mums experiencing loneliness. Thank you Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network!

Dentist: "you have great teeth." Me thinking to myself: *say something normal!* Me: "thanks, I grew them myself." Dentist: "..." Me: "..." Me: *you'll get 'em next time, kiddo.*

This resonates juuuuust a smidge too well with me.

The FIT MUSICIAN survey in collaboration with Health, Economic, Social Impacts of the ARTs Centre for Performance Science Royal College of Music is out! We would love to hear from you if you are a professional classical performing instrumentalist. You can take the survey here 👇 Please feel free 2 share and retweet! imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5y…

I am currently recruiting participants for my doctoral #research! If you are a #woman or #nonbinary femme in higher #music education in the UK, please consider taking part in this interview study. Tell your friends! (And acquaintances! Nemeses? You decide.)

Research Spotlight ✨💡✨ Investigating women's perceptions of position and power in UK conservatoires "Are you currently enrolled in a UK music conservatoire? Do you identify as a woman or nonbinary femme? We want to hear from you!" Contact Sasha Kaye for further information!

If you identify as a woman or nonbinary femme, please consider taking part in this interview study! Your participation will let researchers better understand what it's like to be a conservatoire student in the UK. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Music Studies Mimì Harmer 🌿 Donne Foundation

Doing a PhD that borrows from gender studies and sociology when your background is in psychology means spending a lot of time searching for "sociological equivalent of [psych phenomenon]". I can see the thing! I just don't know the discipline-specific way to describe the thing!

New study from our network members Prof Rosie Perkins Urszula Tymoszuk Aaron Williamon Neta Spiro 4 overarching themes characterise how arts engagement might facilitate feelings of #socialconnectedness: social opportunities, sharing, commonality & belonging, collective understanding.

🌟Last call for participants! You are still eligible to participate if you have just graduated. I look forward to speaking with you!

Ahead of #WomensDay, I *will* find a more professional/less self-flagelating equivalent of, "I think I am making a reasonable request, I swear I'm not trying to be difficult, but I can apologise for my existence if that's preferable" for this work email! (Suggestions welcome.)

Calling #women and nonbinary #femmes in UK #conservatoires! I'm researching how gender shapes conservatoire life and you can help. Learn more about the Conservatoires Gender Diary (Gen-D) Study and check your eligibility at genderdiarystudy.co.uk

Help researchers understand how #gender shapes academic and musical progression in UK #conservatoires. Learn more about the Conservatoires Gender Diary (Gen-D) Study at genderdiarystudy.co.uk This study has been reviewed and approved by CUK Ethics Committee.

New Centre for Performance Science Royal College of Music research out today in Public Health showing how arts engagement supported social connections in the first year of the pandemic. Free to access at doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe… With Sasha Kaye Dr Berenice Beverley Zammit Adele Mason-Bertrand Neta Spiro Aaron Williamon

Gender shapes our world in day-to-day life. Help me better understand how women and nonbinary femmes experience gender in UK conservatoires, and what that means for their academic and musical progression. Read more and consider joining at genderdiarystudy.co.uk