Welcome to 4th Joint Seminar on Music, Sport and Health, 13 June, 2025! This annual event is held in the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ and is co-organised with the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences.
This year’s keynote lecture will be given in-person by JYU Visiting Fellow Professor Jasmin Hutchinson, Springfield College, USA.
The goal of JSMSH is to learn about new research and ongoing projects related to music, sport and health, as well as to develop new opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation.
Programme (updated)
10:00 Coffee / tea / snacks
10:15 Opening words Geoff Luck
Session 1 (Mostly) Completed or Ongoing Research
10:20 How Do Music and Personalised Systems Influence Exercise Adherence? Insights from Two Meta-Analyses. Andrew Danso, Geoff Luck
10:40 Effects of music performance anxiety on perceived performance quality. Kaisu Tanskanen
11:00 Music is a Valuable but Underutilised Resource in the Prevention of Physical Diseases. Hannele Partanen, Emily Carlson, Arja Oikarinen, Andrew Danso
11:20 Group rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease: A case study combining music and physiotherapy. Jaana Ruotsalainen, Emily Carlson, Jaakko Erkkilä
11:40 Potential for change (PΔ): Can new metrics help us understand and predict response to behaviour change interventions? Keegan Knittle, Dan Phipps, Gjalt-Jorn Peters, Robert Tobias, Matti Heino, Nelli Hankonen
12:00 LUNCH
Keynote
13:00 Designing the Exercise Experience: Harnessing Music for Motivation and Movement. Jasmin Hutchinson, Springfield College, USA
13:40 Coffee / tea / snacks
Session 2 (Mostly) New Directions
14:00 Affect and Exercise Adherence: An Integrative Framework for Aerial Yoga. Deniz Duman, Annika Tammela, Nandhini Natarajan, Andrew Danso
14:20 Finnish Mental Healthcare Practitioners’ Capabilities, Opportunities and Motivations for Employing Physical Activity Behaviour Change Interventions: A Research Proposal. Lasse Eini
14:40 How do musical and sports engagement at home and in non-formal contexts associate with children’s development? Alicia Lucendo-Noriega, Arja Sääkslahti, Joshua S. Bamford, Tanja Linnavalli
15:00 Motivation as a mechanism underlying Effects of music-based movement. Rebecca Schaefer
15:20 What are the effects of music on climbing? Dana Swarbrick, Ulysse Côté-Allard, Lionel Reveret
15:40 Embodied Approaches to Preventing Musicians’ Musculoskeletal Disorders: An Integrative
Literature Review. Marc Thompson, Andrew Danso
16:00 Closing words and end of seminar. Geoff Luck
Registration
JSMSH4 will be a physical event. All presenters must attend and present their work in Jyväskylä.
Registration is now open! Please register below. The event is free of charge.
For more information, contact Geoff Luck (geoff.luck@jyu.fi) or Andrew Danso (andrew.a.dansoadu@jyu.fi).
Looking forward to seeing you on 13th June!
Geoff & Andy
