Renee Timmers is Professor of Psychology of Music at The University of Sheffield, where she directs the Music, Mind, Machine research centre. Her research uses interdisciplinary methods to investigate expression, emotion and wellbeing in and through music with a specific focus on music as a multisensory experience. She served on the editorial board of several journals, including acting as Co-Editor of Empirical Musicology Review and Associate Editor of Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain. She is currently President of the European Society of the Cognitive Sciences of Music in which capacity she promotes inclusive and climate friendly international knowledge dissemination.
Freya Bailes is an Associate Professor in Music Psychology at the University of Leeds. She is a founder and co-director of the 'Music for Healthy Lives Research & Practice network'. Freya has held research positions in Australia, France, and the USA. Her interests include cognitive and social processes in performance, mental representations in musical creativity, cognition and perception of musical structures, musical imagery, and music and wellbeing.
Helena Daffern is an Associate Professor in Audio and Music Technology in the AudioLab, Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of York. She received a BA (Hons.) degree in Music, an M.A. degree in Music, and PhD in Music Technology, all from the University of York, UK, before completing postgraduate training as a classical singer at Trinity College of Music, London. Her research utilises interdisciplinary approaches with virtual reality technology to investigate voice science and acoustics, particularly singing performance, vocal pedagogy, choral singing and singing for health and wellbeing.