Rate My Professor Helen Mitchell

Helen Mitchell's research specializations include music education, music psychology, systematic musicology, singing, voice, voice quality, voice training, sound spectrography, experiential learning, and active learning. She led the project 'Redefining tacit knowledge in music performance evaluation' with the University of Wollongong, funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching. As Chief Investigator, she contributes to 'Bel Canto Rediscovered 1700-1800' and 'The Shock of the Old' on historical performance practices. Key publications include '“We hear with our eyes!” Unlocking tacit knowledge about multisensory music performing' (2024), 'The mock concert: How early-career performers decipher and develop stage mastery' (2025), 'Performance as theater: Expert pianists’ awareness of sight and sound in the concert' (2023), 'Rent-a-crowd! Understanding how applause magnitude impacts music performance appraisal' (2023), 'Orchestrating gender equality: How Australian female musicians navigate bias and achieve career success' (2023), 'NeuroMusic: protocol for a randomised-controlled trial of keyboard and singing music training programmes for older adults with mild cognitive impairment' (2025), and 'The associations between playing a musical instrument and grey matter in older adults at risk for dementia' (2025). Her work has over 340 citations. She engages in public lectures like 'Music on your mind' on music and dementia prevention.