Music

Dr Katie Overy

Music

School of Arts, Culture & Environment

University of Edinburgh
Alison House
12 Nicolson Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9DF

Room: 307

Email: K.Overy@ed.ac.uk

Phone: +44 131 650 8248

Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology

Co-Director of the IMHSD

Programme Director: MSc in Music in the Community

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, she has helped to establish the new Institute for Music in Human and Social Development.

EU PF7 People - Marie Curie Actions – ITN (Co-PI)

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (PI)

The Wellcome Trust (Co-PI)

Edinburgh University CHSS Knowledge Transfer Grant (PI)

Scottish Funding Council (Consultant)

Chest, Heart and Stroke, Scotland (PI)

The Grammy Foundation (Co-PI)

Royal Society of Edinburgh (Consultant)

British Dyslexia Association Music Committee

Scottish Music Therapy Trust

• The cognitive neuroscience of music
• The psychology of music
• Music in education
• Music and dyslexia