Rate My Professor Mary Broughton

Broughton's professional career encompasses academic appointments at the University of Queensland as Associate Professor and prior postdoctoral research. As a performer, she has collaborated with orchestras including the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and presented nationally and internationally as a chamber and solo musician. She has received research grants such as the 2015 UQ Early Career Researcher Grant for 'Music performance as embodied social communication: Investigating empathy in the relational processing of contemporary classical music performance, using technology' and the 2017-2018 Westerman Open Grant for 'Audience response to contemporary classical music performance'. Notable publications include 'How do music activities affect health and well-being? A scoping review of studies examining psychosocial mechanisms' (2021, Frontiers in Psychology); 'Promoting wellbeing and health through active participation in music and dance: a systematic review' (2020, International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being); 'Affective and cognitive responses to musical performances of early 20th century classical solo piano compositions: the influence of musical expertise and audio-visual perception' (2021, Music Perception); book chapters 'Body movement' (2022, The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance) and 'Building a Profile of Australian Parents’ Musical Beliefs, Values, and Practices' (2023, The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music); and 'An expressive bodily movement repertoire for Marimba performance, revealed through observers' Laban effort-shape analyses, and allied musical features: two case studies' (2016, Frontiers in Psychology). Her contributions advance understanding of music's psychological and social impacts.