Jane Davidson is Professor of Creative and Performing Arts (Music) at

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and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Early life

She began her academic career in 1991, initially as a postdoctoral research fellow at

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, Staffordshire, then as lecturer in music at

City University, London City, University of London, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City Univ ...

. From 1995 to 2006 she worked through the ranks from lecturer to full professor at the University of Sheffield. In the UK, she also taught on a sessional basis at the

Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...

in London. She moved to Australia as the inaugural Callaway/Tunley Chair of Music at the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...

(UWA) and worked there from 2006 to 2013.

Later career

Jane has a number of study interests: artistic development, arts and health, performance practices, emotion and expression in performance, and vocal studies. She has published extensively, researching in the disciplines of music psychology and education, and works in the history of emotions. She has been the successful recipient of research grants internationally, and is a frequent reviewer for academic funding bodies and publishers. She was Editor of ''

Psychology of Music ''Psychology of Music'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of music psychology. The editor-in-chief is Alexandra Lamont (Keele University). It was established in 1973 and is published by SAGE Publications on be ...

'' (1997-2001); Vice-President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (2003-2006); and President of the Musicological Society of Australia (2010 and 2011). She also completed service working as a member of the Research Evaluation Committee for Excellence in Research in Australia (ERA) for both the trial evaluation in 2009 and main assessment in 2012. As a practitioner, she has worked as an opera singer and music theatre director. She continued her practical work in voice at UWA, coordinating the voice department and offering a range of repertoire classes and staged productions. She currently supervises postgraduate singers, alongside a range of performers, teachers, and scholars in the fields of music psychology and musicology. She was elected a Fellow of the

Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australia ...

in 2021.

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