John Sloboda

John Sloboda is Emeritus Professor at Keele, honorary Professor of Music at Royal Holloway University, London, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. He has been a member of the School of Psychology at Keele since 1974 and was Director of its Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development founded in 1991. John Sloboda is internationally known for his work on the psychology of music. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and was President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, where he serves on the editorial board of it's journal, Musicae Scientiae. He was recipient of the 1998 British Psychological Society's Presidents Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge, and in 2004 was elected to Fellowship of the British Academy. He is author of over 150 publications in the field of music psychology.

His books include "The Musical Mind", "Psychology for Musicians", and (with Patrik N Juslin) "Handbook of Music and Emotion".

For more information, please visit prof. Sloboda's website