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Music education advocates - my latest Music Education Works enews is out, summarising the latest research evidence of the impact of music education + a digest of podcasts.

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Music learning and school-aged children’s and adolescents’ wellbeing: A scoping review Researchers from the Edith Cowan University in Australia, conducted a systematic review of music learning and wellbeing literature to offer a new perspective on learning music as a wellbeing strate…

Latest research: A systematic review of music learning and wellbeing studies. 423 sources analysed - all except one, reported that learning music benefited student wellbeing.

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Learning to play a musical instrument at age 10-14 is likely to improve cognition A study in Italy by a group of academics found that instrumental music training might influence behavioural and cognitive maturation during the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Latest research: Learning to play a musical instrument at age 10-14 is likely to improve cognition

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The Music Education Works website has been running for 10 years now. So we're looking for your views by Fri 28 Feb.

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The Music Education Works website has been running for 10 years now.

So we're looking for your views and feedback. How often do use it? How much would you miss it if it wasn't here? What should do next ...? Thank you for any feedback& insights 🙏

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This quote was taken from Dr. Collins' inspiring words during 'Conversations with Dr Anita Collins on Advancing Music Education' with the amazing team at Mozart's Sister, highlighting the transformative power of music learning. 🎻✨

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🎶 What happens inside our brains when we make music together? A lot more than you might think!

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Impact of music learning on university students’ psychological well-being Research from China suggests that policy makers should integrate music education into academic settings to improve self-esteem and wellbeing.

Latest research: Researchers at Zhengzhou Normal University, China find music education mitigates the detrimental effects of academic life on psychological well-being musiceducationworks.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/i...

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Researchers from the Department of Music at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland studied the claim that music education can create social benefits in the school environment, and found a positive correlation.

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New piece of research from the University of Sussex, on the correlation between academic achievement and uptake of music; and a new study from NorthwesternUniversity looking into singing and wellbeing for young people musiceducationworks.wordpress.com

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Did you know we also group research into categories for ease of use? Our newest category combines research into music education and neurodivergence: musiceducationworks.wordpress.com/category/3-b...

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Latest research on the Music Education Works website:

📆 Study tracking the long-term impact (from age 6-13) of early musical ability.

🕹️Research confirming skill transfer from music to inhibition control (ages 3-11).

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This is an incredibly useful paper from the academic journal, Society, for anyone involved in communicating research findings. Author John Simmons says it: "sets out why I believe writing needs to be taken more seriously & used more creatively...in the academic field. rdcu.be/dWPSG

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Find studies on the impact of music education, all in one place & searchable by topic.

Are you a music/neuroscience researcher, with studies you'd like to reach a wider audience? DM us with your links.

Please share: we'd love to reach more music researchers & music ed advocates

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Searching for that music education advocacy news item or report? We also collect, summarise and share those in our news section musiceducationworks.wordpress.com/2022/12/30/a...

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Researchers looking into the impact of music education - we want to hear from you! We will share your research on the Music Education Works website and other channels including this one. Follow us or DM us for our email address.