sempre50: SEMPRE 50th Anniversary Conference Senate House, University of London London, UK, September 2-3, 2022

SEMPRE was founded in 1972, growing out of the Reading Conferences on Research in Music Education that were started in 1966 by Arnold Bentley. Today, the charitable object of the Society is to ‘advance education and research concerning the psychology of music and music education for the benefit of people throughout the world'. This is achieved in three main ways: through publications (SEMPRE produces three journals in partnership with Sage Publications, Psychology of Music, Research Studies in Music Education and Music and Science, and a book series, SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music, with Routledge); through awards that variously support early career researchers, travel in pursuit of defined research objectives, initiatives that cross disciplinary boundaries and attendance at conferences, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award; and conferences, both organised by the Society itself and in association with sister organisations all over the world.

SEMPRE's 50th Anniversary Conference will celebrate the field of the psychology of music and music education and will take place in September 2022. The conference will incorporate keynote addresses, presentations by SEMPRE 50th Anniversary Award holders and the winner of the Aubrey Hickman Award, panel discussions, spoken papers and poster sessions. Contributions are welcome from all areas of music psychology and music education.

Key Dates

• 13 June 2022: Deadline for abstracts and Aubrey Hickmann Award Applications
• 10 July 2022: Decisions to be communicated to applicants
• 31 July 2022: Deadline for registration (presenters)
• August 2022: Programme released
• 31 August 2022: Registration deadline for online viewing (not presenters)
• 2-3rd September 2022: Conference

Keynote presenters

• [TBC]

SEMPRE 50th Anniversary Award Holder presenters

• Graziela Bortz
• Anja Feneberg
• Caroline Waddington-Jones
• Leonardo Bonetti
• Sarah Hennessy
• Emily Carlson
• Elaine King
• Hannah Marsden

Proposals

Proposals are invited in the following categories (details of durations for spoken presentations and compositions are given below):

• Research paper: full-length spoken presentation (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion);
• Research poster and statement: Electronic submission plus short presentation (details TBC)

Submissions

Please submit an abstract of your proposed presentation via EasyChair (200 words, with a maximum of 300 words with references). All abstracts should fully and clearly describe the topic of the presentation and should include the following information: title, background, research questions, aims, summary of content and significance.

Aubrey Hickman Award

SEMPRE's 2022 Aubrey Hickman Award will be given at this conference in recognition of a paper by a postgraduate researcher or early career researcher (defined as being within two years of having been awarded their doctorate), that offers a significant and previously unpublished contribution to the knowledge and understanding of music education or music psychology. Applicants should submit an extended abstract of 2000-3000 words via EasyChair in addition to the 200 word abstract outlined above. Further details will be available via the conference website.