Lauren Stewart is Reader in Psychology and founding director of the MSc programme in Music, Mind and Brain at Goldsmith, University of London. She studied Physiological Sciences followed by an MSc in Neuroscience, both at Balliol College, before undertaking doctoral studies at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL), followed by postdoctoral research at Newcastle University and Harvard Medical School. Her research on the cognitive neuroscience of music is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and The Leverhulme Trust.