meet Rosie Perkins
Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science
Rosie Perkins is Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science at the Royal College of Music London (RCM). Part of the Centre for Performance Science, Rosie is a leading researcher in the area of music and mental health, where her research investigates two broad and intersecting areas: how music and the arts support individual and societal wellbeing, and how to optimise musicians’ wellbeing and career development. Rosie has particular interest in how music can support parental wellbeing; she is co-founder and chair of the Music and Parental Wellbeing Alliance and published an edited volume on Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing with Oxford University Press in 2024.
Rosie’s research has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, British Academy, Dutch Research Council, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and has featured in a wide range of international journals and press. Rosie is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London and a Fellow of AdvanceHE (FHEA) and the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH). In 2019, Rosie was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music (HonRCM), and in 2025, she became an Affiliate Researcher with the Jameel Arts and Health Lab.