• Musicians’ health and wellbeing
• Performance-related pain
• Effective music practice
• Self-regulated learning
• Music performance anxiety
• Scale development and validation
• Intervention development and testing
• Use of technology to support musicians

• Development and testing of an mHealth intervention for prevention and management of performance-related pain

•  Longitudinal study of factors associated with musicians’ performance-related pain

•  Evaluation of an online intervention on effective practice for tertiary piano students

Akiho is a music psychology researcher with a passion for supporting musicians’ health and wellbeing. She initially trained as a classical pianist and completed a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before studying an MA in Psychology of Music at the University of Sheffield and a PhD at the Royal Northern College of Music, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Since 2025, Akiho has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, where she is working on a project that aims to develop and trial a mobile app intervention for musicians’ performance-related pain. Akiho is also the co-leader of Flourish, an AHRC-funded project which aims to communicate research knowledge from performance science to musicians in accessible and engaging ways.