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Dr

Margaret Osborne

Lecturer In Music (Performance Science)
Melbourne Conservatorium Of Music
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Music & performing arts
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academic
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Dr

Margaret Osborne

 
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Fine Arts And Music
 
Primary Interest
Performance anxiety
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Dr Margaret Osborne is a Lecturer in Music (Performance Science) in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, and Teaching Specialist in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at The University of Melbourne. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Sydney in which she investigated the phenomenology and treatment of music performance anxiety in adolescents.

Margaret is also a registered psychologist and occupational rehabilitation counsellor, and past-President of the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare.

Margaret’s work specialises in performance science and psychology. As a result of her research and professional practice, Margaret is passionate about assisting people to manage anxiety, build confidence, enhance performance, and develop emotional resilience. She works with Professor Gary McPherson and colleagues at the University of New South Wales, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Royal College of Music on an ARC Discovery Project which examines motivation and practice quality in musicians who are undertaking advanced training in music performance. In addition, she conducts her own research and teaching in psychological strategies to manage performance anxiety and enhance performance potential in musicians and athletes. In 2016 she helped establish IgniteLab, a careers and entrepreneurship initiative which supports Melbourne Conservatorium of Music students to build 21st century careers.

Key research questions:

  • How can performance psychology support the optimal training and execution of performance skills?
  • How can we improve the health and well-being of musicians?
  • How can we integrate theoretical and therapeutic research in the cognitive, behavioural and neuroscientific domains to formulate best-practice methods to reduce debilitating anxiety and maximise performance potential?
For a list of publications, papers and talks search for "Margaret S. Osborne" on Researchgate.net.

Projects

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Maximising performance potential.

2012 - 2012
Completed

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Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Examining a Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention for Music Performance Anxiety in Student Vocalists

Laura K Clarke, Margaret S Osborne, John A Baranoff

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Psychology

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a distressing and persistent anxious apprehension related to musical performance. The experienc..

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Using a microanalysis intervention to examine shifts in musicians' self-regulated learning

Margaret S Osborne, Gary E McPherson, Peter Miksza, Paul Evans

Journal article  |  2020  |  Psychology of Music

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of using a self-directed practice diary on conservatory pianists’ self-regula..

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Evaluating practice strategies, behavior and learning progress in elite performers: An exploratory study

Adina Mornell, Margaret S Osborne, Gary E McPherson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Musicae Scientiae

Typical musicians devote most of their time to blocks of physical practice and mistake-avoidance, as opposed to mental preparation..

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Emotion Goals in Music Performance Anxiety

Margaret S Osborne, Brendan Munzel, Katharine H Greenaway

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Psychology

Performance anxiety can be debilitating, and so researchers and laypeople alike tend to assume that it is desirable to downregulat..

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Entering the live-streaming void and emerging victorious: teaching performance psychology under pressure

Margaret Osborne

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal on Innovations in Online Education

In 2019, the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music trialed a hybrid instruction method combining face-to-face teaching with simultaneo..

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Precompetitive appraisal, performance anxiety and confidence in conservatorium musicians: A case for coping

Margaret S Osborne, Gary E McPherson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Psychology of Music

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Applying self-regulated learning microanalysis to study musicians’ practice

G McPherson, M Osborne, P Evans, P Miksza

Journal article  |  2019  |  Psychology of Music

This article describes the development of a music practice microanalysis protocol that is based on the three-phase model of self-r..

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Enabling performance careers: Training for excellence in the context of arts entrepreneurship education

M OSBORNE

Presentation  |  2016

Invited paper presented at Art in Motion 2016: Training for Excellence, 24-25 June 2016 The creative industries have undergone sy..

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Exploring the academic and psychosocial impact of El Sistema-inspired music programs within two low socio-economic schools

Margaret S Osborne, Gary E McPherson, Robert Faulkner, Jane W Davidson, Margaret S Barrett

Journal article  |  2016  |  MUSIC EDUCATION RESEARCH

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Engagement and skill development through an innovative classroom music program

James Richmond, Neil M McLachlan, Mary Ainley, Margaret Osborne

Journal article  |  2016  |  International Journal of Music Education

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Keyword Analysis

Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Arts and Leisure
Psychology
Expanding Knowledge
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Specialist Studies in Education
Education Systems
Anthropology
Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

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Music performance anxiety ... and how to beat it

Margaret Osborne

September 21, 2016

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Credentials

Positions

Positions

Lecturer In Music (Performance Science)

Melbourne Conservatorium Of Music

Lecturer In Psychology

Melbourne School Of Psychological Sciences

Registered Practitioner

Career Industry Council of Australia

Masorc

Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors

Maps

Australian Psychological Society

Maacbt

Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy

Education

Education

Graduate Certificate in University Teaching

University of Melbourne

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PSYCHOLOGY)

University of Sydney

BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY (HONOURS)

Macquarie University

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