Chair, Creativity and Wellbeing
The University of Melbourne
Prof Jane W. Davidson, Fellow, Australian Academy for the Humanities, undertakes research in performance, musical development across the lifespan, intercultural engagement and music for wellbeing outcomes.
Roles have included: Editor of Psychology of Music (1997-2001), President of both the Musicological Society of Australia (2010-2011) and Australian Music and Psychology Society (2018-2021), and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2011-2018).
She is currently Deputy Director of the Victorian College of the Arts and Chair of the University of Melbourne’s Creativity and Wellbeing Initiative.
Jane is an opera singer and director who runs the MMus in Opera Performance and has secured grants and awards in Australia and overseas.