Dr Nicola Dibben - Teaching
Dr Dibben is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Since taking an MEd in teaching and learning Dr Dibben has researched teaching practices, focusing on improving assessment practices, curriculum design and strategies for widening participation. Her article on teaching and learning and social responsibility (2004) was in the "Top 10" of the most accessed online-articles for the journal “Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”.
Current undergraduate teaching includes modules on Sound and Science, and Contemporary Popular Music, plus dissertation supervision and teaching on a wide range of topics. At graduate level she teaches on the department’s three Masters programmes in Psychology of Music.
PhD supervision
Dr Dibben supervises doctoral students in music cognition and emotion, uses of music in daily life, cognition of musical structure, gender, and popular music. Applications for doctoral study in the following areas are particularly encouraged: auditory perception of the virtual sound world of recordings (space, place, and sound sources); applied music psychology: music and mood regulation, emotional experiences with music, commercial applications of music listening (in advertising, consumer behaviour...); music listening and subjectivity.
Students who have completed PhDs with Dr Dibben include the following:
- Christos Stavrinides (jointly supervised by Dr Annette Davison): Representations of gender in Greek film music, 2011.
- Anneli Beronius Haake: Music in the workplace, 2011.
- Tim Robinson (jointly supervised by Dr Stephanie Pitts): How popular musicians teach, 2011.
- Metaxia Pavlakou (jointly supervised by Dr Nick Fox): Sing, sing out!: an investigation of the impact of amateur group singing on people with eating disorders, 2010.
- Ruth Herbert (jointly supervised by Prof Eric Clarke): Range of consciousness within everyday music listening experiences: absorption, dissociation and the trancing process 2009.
- Carola Darwin: The "I" of the other: opera and gender in Vienna, 2009.
- Noola Griffiths (previously supervised by Prof. Jane Davidson): The effect of concert dress and physical appearance on perceptions of female solo performers, 2005.
- Angelo Martingo: Music as postmodern thought: a critical examination of George Crumb's Makrokosmos I, 2004.