PhD Student
ORCID: 0009-0003-3742-5707
Research Interests
- Virtual group singing
- Music technology (VR)
- Music & wellbeing
- Social psychology
- Identity
- Mood & affect regulation
- Phenomenology
- Aesthetics
Biography
Dana L. C. Greaves (she/her) is a PhD student who joined the AudioLab in October, 2023. She graduated from the University of Leeds in 2023 where she completed her MA in Music Psychology and holds a BA in Jazz and Contemporary Popular Music (Vocal Performance Major) from MacEwan University in her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is grateful to be funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) through WRoCAH (White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities). Currently, she is working on a mixed-methods randomised control trial examining the psychosocial effects of singing in VR. This study has been funded by the Society of Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE). Her previous research has focused on gendered experiences in music, anger processing and mood/affect regulation, personality and identity, aesthetics in music, and social psychology.
Outside of the lab, she has worked as a professional gigging and recording musician for over a decade and loves to play video games and Dungeons and Dragons.