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.

(2024) PI; NIHR Global Health Research Group in Community Health Intervention through Musical Engagement

(2022) Co PI; Baring Foundation; Perinatal Mental Health with Yaram Arts

(2021) PI; Goldsmiths Strategic Fund; Investigating the potential of a community based music intervention to support maternal mental health in South Africa, a scoping study

(2020) Co-I; Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fund; Promoting awareness of Perinatal Depression in The Gambia

(2020) PhD supervisor; Economic and Social Research Council; Is Song a Superstimulus for Language Learning (Alice Bowmer)

(2017) PI; GCRF Medical Research Council/ Arts and Humanities Research Council; Developing a Community-Based Singing Intervention for Perinatal Mental Health in the Gambia 

(2012) Co PI; British Academy; Investigating Links between Music and Vocal Emotions

(2011) PI; Leverhulme Trust; Investigating Involuntary Cognition through Musical Imagery 

CHIME Project for Perinatal Mental Health