Career
He is currently Company-Director of ORG"s Every Casualty programme. He is also one of the founders of the Iraq Body Count Project. He was Professor of Psychology at Keele University, United Kingdom until 2008, where he now has emeritus status.
His academic work has been in music psychology - a subdiscipline which draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and academic musicians.
His research interests have focused on the psychological aspects of the study of music performance, the emotional response to music, the functions of music in everyday life, and learning and skill acquisition in music More recently, he has researched the changing nature of the British anti-war movement.
In 2009 he joined the part-time staff of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as Research Professor, where he currently directs their Understanding Audiences research programme. From 1975 to 1995 he was the founding Director of the Keele Bach Choir, a "town and gown" choir based on the Keele University campus.