Prof Lauren Stewart’s undergraduate degree was in Physiological Sciences at Balliol College Oxford, where she also studied for an MSc in Neuroscience. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL), followed by postdoctoral positions at Newcastle University and a travelling fellowship to Harvard Medical School. Prior to starting at Roehampton, she was at Goldsmiths, University of London where she founded the MSc programme in the Music, Mind and Brain lab. Her research has focused on topics including congenital amusia, musical training as a model of plasticity, and spontaneous musical imagery while her current projects focus on the application of participatory music-based interventions to support perinatal mental health, particularly in the Global South.