Doctoral Researcher - Interdisciplinary Music Research (MUSICOTAS Project)
About this role
The Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä is currently seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher for a 3-year position within the research project Musical Sharing in Copresent Time and Space (MUSICOTAS, https://www.jyu.fi/en/projects/musicotas-2025-2029). The contract begins on September 1st, 2026. The position focuses on doctoral studies and research within an interdisciplinary consortium exploring musical experiences across different performance contexts. The fixed-term position is for completing doctoral studies.
About the position
The project examines how music is shared and experienced in contemporary contexts such as live concerts, livestreams, and prerecorded performances, and how these experiences shape behavioural, physiological, emotional and social responses among performers and audiences. The doctoral researcher will join the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain and the MUSICOTAS consortium (Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä; VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland).
The position focuses particularly on understanding how musical experiences emerge through interaction between music, bodies, and social environments. The doctoral researcher will contribute to studies investigating how different performance and listening contexts influence movement, cardiac activity, rhythmic-social synchrony, affective states, and enjoyment among both musicians and audiences.
The researcher will work closely with the MUSICOTAS research team and contribute to data collection and analysis across multiple settings. The project uses participatory and multimodal research methods, including focus group interviews, live concert experiments, and concert showings. The doctoral researcher will be expected to conduct rigorous research focusing on quantitative approaches, contribute to the development of methods for data processing and synchrony analysis across bodily modalities, publish findin