Nashra Ahmad
| Biography | Nashra Ahmad is a Music Cognition and Psychology researcher, currently pursuing PhD at Durham University supported by the Durham Doctoral Studentship. She completed her Masters in Cognitive Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar in 2021, and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (first class honours) from Aligarh Muslim University in 2018. Her predoctoral work (2021- 2022) included studying perception and pupil dilation responses to consonant and dissonant intervals among Indian participants. She is currently working on rhythm perception and entrainment for her PhD, focusing on learning processes of isochronous and non-isochronous North-Indian (Hindustani) Classical Rhythms. She has presented her work at various international conferences and published her interdisciplinary work in collaboration with renowned researchers. At Durham University, she is an active member of the Music and Science Lab and an editorial assistant of DURMS. Nashra is also an educator who has taught guitar and basic music theory at the elementary to middle school level in India. She is currently a Foundation Teaching Fellow for the foundation year in Psychology at Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD), Durham University. She enjoys playing the guitar, singing, landscape painting, and sculpting. |
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| Research Interests | Rhythm Perception Pattern Recognition Music and Entrainment Music and Sensorimotor Synchronisation Consonance and Dissonance Perception |
| Teaching and Learning | Foundation Teaching Fellow, DCAD (2023-2025) Graduate Teaching Assistant, Music and Science (2024) |