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Dr Matthew Rodger

Dr Matthew Rodger Lecturer

Email: m.rodger@qub.ac.uk

Address Room 03.535,
David Keir Building
School of Psychology
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast,
BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland,
UK

Telephone +44 (0)28 9097 4177

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I was born in Edinburgh, and grew up in Fife. After completing my MA (Hons.) in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, I moved to Belfast in 2006, where I began studying for my PhD in the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at QUB. During my PhD, which was part of the European SKILLS Integrated Project, I researched the performance body movements made by musicians and their role in musical skill acquisition. After completing my PhD in 2010, I became a researcher on the TEMPUS-G project in the School of Psychology, where I investigated the effects of auditory and visual information on movement for the development of sensory guides to enhance motor performance. In summer 2012, I was appointed as a lecturer in psychology at QUB.

I am involved in teaching on the following courses:

Undergraduate:

  • PSY1001 – Introductory Psychology 1
  • PSY2062 – Conceptual Issues and Psychology for Employability
  • PSY3001 – Thesis

MSc in Psychology of Performance Enhancement in Sport and Health:

  • PSY7071 – Psychology of Movement Performance – Theoretical Issues
  • PSY7072 – Measuring and Evaluating Performance
  • PSY7073 – Psychological Dynamics of Performance (module convenor)
  • PSY7057 – Dissertation
  • Perceptual Guidance of Motor Performance;
  • Timing and Time Perception;
  • Skill Acquisition, particularly for music performance;
  • Ecological Acoustics;
  • Theories of Embodiment.

Bienkiewicz, M., Rodger, M., Young, W., & Craig, C. (in press). Time to get a move on: Overcoming bradykinetic movement in Parkinson's disease with artificial sensory guidance generated from biological motion. Behavioural Brain Research. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.07.003,

Simones, L., Schroeder, F., & Rodger, M. (in press). Categorisations of physical gesture in piano teaching: A preliminary enquiry. Psychology of Music.

Rodger, M., O’Modhrain, S., & Craig, C. (2013). Temporal guidance of musicians' performance movement is an acquired skill. Experimental Brain Research, 226, 221-230. doi: 10.1007/s00221-013-3427-2

Young, W., Rodger, M. & Craig, C. (2013). Perceiving and re-enacting spatio-temporal characteristics of walking sounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 464-476. doi: 10.1037/a0029402

Bienkiewicz, M., Rodger, M., & Craig, C. (2012). Timekeeping strategies operate independently from spatial and accuracy demands in beat-interception movements. Experimental Brain Research, 222, 241-253. doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3211-8

Rodger, M., Craig, C., & O’Modhrain, S. (2012). Expertise is perceived from both sound and body movement in musical performance. Human Movement Science, 31, 1137-1150  doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2012.02.012

Rodger, M. & Craig, C. (2011). Timing movements to interval durations specified by discrete or continuous sounds. Experimental Brain Research, 214, 393-402. doi: 10.1007/s00221-011-2837-2

Rodger, M., Issartel, J., & O’Modhrain, S. (2007). Performer as perceiver: Perceiver as performer. In A. Luciani & C. Cadoz (Eds.), Proceedings of the ENACTIVE’07 Conference (pp. 237-240). Grenoble: ENACTIVE.