Volume 5 (1) 2013 – Conference report
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) 40th Anniversary Conference
Robert Fulford
(pp.75-78)
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) 40th Anniversary Conference
14-15 September 2012
Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom
Biography
Robert Fulford is a PhD student in Music Psychology at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK. He previously studied Music with Education and Educational Psychology at the University of Cambridge. His current research focuses on interactive performance for musicians with a hearing impairment and is part of an AHRC-funded collaboration with the Acoustics Research Unit, University of Liverpool. He researches topics relating to music and deafness including cross-modal perception and communication in music and music perception using hearing aid technology. He is co-leader of the North-West Deaf Youth Orchestra run by the charity Music and the Deaf and is a British Sign Language user.