Dr Antonia Ivaldi

Lecturer in Psychology
PhD (Keele), MSc (Keele), BSc Hons (Derby), C.Psychol. Photograph of Dr Antonia Ivaldi.

Contact

Email: ani@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628467

Responsibilities

Director of Learning and Teaching
PS11420 Module Convenor

Teaching Areas

Teaching topics include social psychology and qualitative research methods.

Research

Dr Ivaldi’s research interests are in the fields of music psychology and social interaction, in particular, analysing talk in musical contexts.  Previous topics of interest have included adolescents’ musical engagement, role models, and musical identities.

Additional Interests

Dr Ivaldi is an Associate Editor for the online journal Music Performance Research, and was Chair of the Music, Identity and Social Interaction Conference held at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.  Antonia is also a Chartered Psychologist.

Staff Publications

Ivaldi, A. (forthcoming 2010). Routes to adolescent musical expertise. In I. Deliège and J. Davidson (Eds), Music and the mind: Investigating the functions and processes of music (a book in honour of John Sloboda). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ivaldi, A. & O’Neill, S.A. (2010). Adolescents' attainability and aspiration beliefs for famous musician role models. Music Education Research, 12 (2), 167-185.

Ivaldi, A. & O’Neill, S.A. (2009). Talking ‘privilege’: Barriers to musical attainment in adolescents’ talk of musical role models. British Journal of Music Education, 26 (1), 43-56.

Ivaldi, A. & O'Neill, S.A. (2008). Adolescents’ musical role models: Whom do they admire and why? Psychology of Music, 36 (4), 395-415.

O'Neill, S.A., Ivaldi, A., & Fox, C. (2002). Gendered discourses in musically 'talented' adolescent females' construction of self. Feminism and Psychology, 12 (2), 153-159.

Sloboda, J.A., O'Neill, S.A., & Ivaldi, A. (2000). Functions of music in everyday life: An exploratory study using the Experience Sampling Method. Musicae Scientiae, 5, 9-32

Conferences

Ivaldi, A. (February 2010). Teacher evaluations and student responses in instrumental music lessons. Music, Identity and Social Interaction Conference. Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.

Ivaldi, A. (August 2009). Constructing positive and negative assessments in instrumental lesson interactions  7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). Helsinki, Finland.

Ivaldi, A., & Moran, K. (November 2007). ‘School kills music’: Enhancing interest in secondary school music listening tasks.  Training Teachers Conference. Padova, Italy.

Ivaldi, A. (August 2006). Analysing music and social interaction: How adolescents talk about musical role models. 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy. [Travel grant awarded by the British Academy].

Smith, N., Beckhelling, J., Ivaldi, A., Kellard, K., Sandu, A. & Tarrant, C. (2006), Evidence based review on mobility: Choices and barriers for different social groups, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/scienceresearch/social/evidence_base_review_on_mobility [Accessed April 2010].

Ivaldi, A., & O'Neill, S.A. (2004). Why adolescents admire famous musical role models: Implications for aspirations, expectations and identity. In S.D. Lipscomb, R.Ashley, R.O. Gjerdingen & P.Webster (Eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Evanston, IL. Adelaide: Causal Productions.

Ivaldi, A., & O'Neill, S.A. (2002). The influence of role models for adolescents' involvement and aspirations in music. In C. Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson, E. Schubert, J.Renwick (Eds.). Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney. Adelaide: Causal Productions.

Ivaldi, A., & O'Neill, S.A. (2000). Motivation and identity in music performance: An exploratory study. In S.A.O'Neill (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, University of Keele, Keele, UK.

Book reviews

Ivaldi, A. (2008). [Review of the book The child as musician]. British Journal of Music Education, 25 (1).