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Katie Overy

Senior Lecturer

Email: k.overy@ed.ac.uk

Tel: +44 131 650 8248

Location:

Rm 214, Alison House

Outline Biography

Katie Overy graduated from the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Music in 1995 and went on to study the psychology of music with Eric Clarke at the University of Sheffield. Her doctoral research examined dyslexic children's difficulties with musical timing and the potential of rhythm-based music lessons to support dyslexic children's language and literacy skills.

While writing her doctoral thesis, Katie spent nine months at the Zoltan Kodaly Pedagogical Institute of Music, Hungary, studying the Kodaly approach to music education. Subsequently, she spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher with Gottfried Schlaug at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, learning fMRI techniques and collaborating on various neuroimaging studies of musical processing.

Since returning to Edinburgh University in 2004, she has worked with Nigel Osborne and Peter Nelson to establish the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development and the MSc Programme in Music in the Community.

Administration

Director, Institute for Music in Human and Social Development (IMHSD)

Director, MSc in Music in the Community

Research activity

Selected Grants

2012 Royal Socety of Edinburgh: Small Research Grant
2012 University of Edinburgh CHSS: Challenge Award
2011 EC PF7 People (IEF): 'Music Moves'
2010 EC PF7 People (ITN): 'EBRAMUS: Europe, Brain and Music'
2010 Scottish Arts Council: 'Inspiring Change' Evaluation
2009 EC Comenius Programme: 'European Music Portfolio'
2008 The Grammy Foundation: Music and emotion in individuals with ASD
2008 University of Edinburgh CHSS KT Office: CPD teacher training workshops
2006 AHRC: Essay on the Value of Music Research to Life in the UK
2002 Harold Wingate Foundation: fMRI music research with young children

Public Engagement

2012 Lost and Sound, Independent Documentary Film (Interview)
2011 Twinkle, Twinkle, The Telegraph online (Interview)
2011 Reel Science, Music Neuroscience, Edinburgh International Film Festival (Curator)
2009 Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 (Interview)
2009 In Tune, BBC Radio 3 (Interview)
2008 Mapping The Mind, BBC Radio Scotland (Interview)
2008 Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain, Imagine, BBC 1 (Consultant)
2006 The Colour of Sound, Independent Documentary Film (Consultant)
2006 Times Educational Supplement (Interview)
2004 The Musical Brain, BBC Music Magazine (Interview)
2003 Society for Neuroscience Press Conference (Panel member)
2002 BBC Radio Sheffield (Interview)

External Committees

British Dyslexia Association Music Committee
Scottish Music Therapy Trust

Conference and Workshop Organisation

2013 EBRAMUS Workshop on Music in the Rehabilitation of Memory and Learning, Univ. of Lille
2012 IMHSD Summer Workshop on Hearing, Seeing and Imagining, Herstmonceux Castle
2012 Perspectives on Rhythm and Timing (PoRT), University of Glasgow
2012 Approaches to Rhythm and Timing in Scotland Today (ARTiST), University of Edinburgh
2011 The Neurosciences and Music IV: Learning and Memory, University of Edinburgh
2010 IMHSD Summer Workshop on Music, Pattern and Mathematics, Herstmonceux Castle
2010 Robert Schumann: the Man, the Mind, the Music, London
2009 The Nash Ensemble and the Musical Brain, London
2008 IMHSD Conference: Dance, Timing and Musical Gesture, University of Edinburgh
2007 IMHSD Summer Workshop on Music, Language and Movement, Herstmonceux Castle
2006 Music and Disability, St. Cecilia's Hall, University of Edinburgh
2006 IMHSD Conference: Rhythm, Time and Temporal Organisation, University of Edinburgh
2005 IMHSD Colloquium: Interactive Minds, University of Edinburgh

Publications

Publications list for Katie Overy

Supervision

Projects supervised by Katie Overy

Teaching

Undergraduate

The Kodaly Approach to Music Education (Course Organiser)
Music and Ideas (Contributer)
Music in the Community (Contributer)
Research Methods (Contributer)

Postgraduate

Music, Mind and Body A: Physiology and Neuroscience (Course Organiser)
Music, Mind and Body B: Psychology and Sociology (Course Organiser)
Creative and Professional Development A (Course Organiser)
Creative and Professional Develpment B (Course Organiser)
Research Methods B (Course Organiser)
Summer Project and Dissertation (Course Organiser)
ECA PG Research Methods (Contributer)

This article was published on Oct 30, 2012