Professor Susan Hallam

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, FRSA, AcSS, FHEA
    • Dean of Faculty
    • Professor of Education
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Policy and Society
  • Department:
  • Summary:
    • Susan Hallam has research interests in disaffection from school (behaviour, attendance, exclusion), learning and understanding (studying, homework, practising, the role of feedback), ability grouping, music psychology and music education.
  • Teaching:
  • Research Projects:
    • Promoting social engagement and well-being in older people through community supported participation in musical activities. ESRC/AHRC New Dynamics of Aging Programme Greater London Authority Music Education Audit (2011-2012)Evaluation of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Project rollout: Training KS1 Primary School Teachers (2010-2011)Measuring the impact of 'unlocking potential' pilot on Children, Young People and Families – School Home Support OrganisationMusical Futures: A case study investigation. Paul Hamlyn Foundation
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Research interests: Behaviour, attendance and exclusion, learning, homework, ability grouping, music education, psychology of music

  • Professional Activities:
    • Member of the editorial board of the journal Psychology of Music and the Journal of the Institute for Educational Research
      Member of the Advocacy Committee of the International Society for Music Education Academician of the Social Sciences
      Fellow of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (now Higher Education Academy)
      Former editor of the Psychology of Music
      Former chair of the Psychology of Education Section of the British Psychological Society
      Former Treasurer of the British Educational Research Association
      Associate Fellow of the BPS
      Chartered Psychologist
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Vernon Wall Lecture British Psychological Society Transitions and the development of expertise, BPS Education Section Conference, November, 2009. Keynote speaker at Westminster Briefing Improving Behaviour and Attendance in Schools: Raising the Bar to Deliver Better Standards for All, 13th October 2010, The Commonwealth Club.Keynote speaker at the SEBDA International Conference, 'Transforming Troubled Lives'14th-17th September 2010, Keble College Oxford.
Professor Susan Hallam

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Publications

  • Hallam, S (in press) 'Cultural perceptions of musicality and musical expertise' M. Barrett, A Cultural Psychology for Music Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hallam, S. & Creech, A. (Eds) (2010) Music Education in the 21st Century in the United Kingdom: Achievements, analysis and aspirations. London (Institute of Education, University of London).
  • Hallam, S. (2010) ''Transitions and the development of expertise', Vernon Wall Lecture' Paper presented at British Psychological Society , Leicester
  • Hallam, S (2010) 'Music Education' In P.Juslin and J. Sloboda (eds) , Handbook of Music and Emotion: theory, research, applications. Oxford (Oxford University Press).
  • Hallam, S. (2010) '21st Century conceptions of Musical Ability', Psychology of Music 38(3), 308-330.
  • Hallam, S. (2010) 'The power of music: its impact of the intellectual, personal and social development of children and young people', International Journal of Music Education 38(3), 269-289.
  • Hallam, S., Rogers, L., and Rhamie, J.  (2010) ' Staff perceptions of the success of an alternative curriculum: Skill Force', Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 15(1), 63-74.
  • Hallam, S., Cross, I. & Thaut, M. (eds) (2008) Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hallam, S & Rogers, L. (2008) Improving behaviour and attendance at school. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
  • Hallam, S. (2006) Music Psychology in Education. Institute of Education, University of London .