Rosie Perkins
- Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science
Royal College of Music, London
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Recent Research
Perkins R (Ed) (2024)
Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing
Perkins R, Spiro N, and Waddell G (2023)
Online songwriting reduces loneliness and postnatal depression and enhances social connectedness in perinatal mothers: randomised controlled trial
Perkins R, Kaye SL, Zammit BB, Mason-Bertrand A, Spiro N, and Williamon A (2022)
How arts engagement supported social connectedness during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: findings from the HEartS Survey,
Perkins R, Mason-Bertrand A, Tymoszuk U, Spiro N, Gee K, and Williamon A (2021)
Arts engagement supports social connectedness in adulthood: findings from the HEartS Survey
Perkins R, Mason-Bertrand A, Fancourt D, Baxter L, and Williamon A (2020)
How participatory music engagement supports mental wellbeing: a meta-ethnography
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Rosie Perkins is Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science at the Royal College of Music, London (RCM). Rosie’s research investigates two broad areas within music and mental health: how music and the arts support societal wellbeing and how to enhance musicians’ wellbeing and career development. Rosie has particular interest in music and parental mental health, founding and co-leading the Music and Parental Wellbeing Alliance which fosters novel, international, and interdisciplinary collaborations to explore the role of music in supporting parental wellbeing.
Rosie’s work has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, British Academy, Dutch Research Council, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and has featured in a wide range of international journals and press. Rosie has authored or edited three books: Performing Music Research: Methods in Music Education, Psychology, and Performance Science (OUP 2021 with Williamon, Ginsborg, and Waddell), Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing (OUP 2024), and Inside the Contemporary Conservatoire: Critical Perspectives from the Royal College of Music, London (Routledge 2025, with Lawson and Salazar). Alongside her research, Rosie co-founded and directs the RCM’s MSc in Performance Science programme, which uses social science methods to explore performance, including the roles of the arts in health and wellbeing.
Rosie is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London and a Fellow of AdvanceHE (FHEA). In 2019, she was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music (HonRCM).