Yiting Cheah

Research Associate in Applied Psychology of Music - University of Liverpool - Department of Music

(2025-01)

Research Associate in Architecture - Manchester Metropolitan University - School of Architecture

(2025-01 - 2026-12)

Lecturer in Psychology - HELP University Malaysia

(2018-01 - 2019-12)

Research Associate - University of Liverpool - Department of Music

(2025-01 - 2026-12)

MUSIC.ME Feasibility trial - Co-creation Workshops, Longitudinal Survey, Umbrella Review

• Organise co-creation workshops exploring the use of personalised music listening web app for mood regulation among young people.
• Implement longitudinal research protocols to evaluate the effectiveness of a digital music-listening intervention in regulating anxiety and depressive symptoms.
• Create public outreach materials to upskill stakeholder's understanding of the app.

Research Associate - Manchester Metropolitan University

(2025-01 - 2025-12)

Designing for neurodiversity - Scoping Review, Qualitative Data Analysis

• Lead a scoping review on the related topic, including developing effective Booleans, article screening, qualitative analysis of published data, create interactive data visualisation and writing-up the article for publication.
• Support the PI in organising Co-Production Workshops.
• Present research outputs at co-creation workshop and international conference.

Research Assistant - University of Liverpool

(2023-01 - 2023-12)

Music listening during long-distance driving - Questionnaire/Survey

• Develop questionnaires investigating U.K. truck drivers' music-listening habits (or other forms of media consumption) while driving.

Principal Investigator - University of Liverpool

(2022-01 - 2023-12)

Instrumental background music preserves task endurance and facilitates cognitive performance: Insights from ego depletion - Behavioural Experiment in Music Cognition

• Design and implement behavioural experiments investigating background music's impact on cognitive endurance and performance.
• Develop experimental paradigms combining reading comprehension tasks, Stroop tasks, and working memory measures.
• Implement virtual and in-person experiments using Qualtrics, PsychoPy and Pavlovia.
• Perform quantitative analyses using mixed-model ANOVA.

Principal Investigator - University of Liverpool

(2021-01 - 2022-12)

Help me study! Students' music listening habits while studying - Mobile Experience Sampling Study in Music Listening Habits

• Design experience sampling protocol and test materials on a mobile experience sampling app for music listening – MuPsych.
• Perform quantitative analyses using t-tests, chi-square and dominance analysis.

Principal Investigator - University of Liverpool

(2020-01 - 2021-12)

Background music and cognitive task performance: A systematic review of task, music and population impact - PRISMA Systematic Review

• Conduct an extensive systematic review with the PRISMA and SWiM protocol.
• Publish a protocol on data collection, extraction and dissemination standards.
• Develop a comprehensive quality assessment tool for future quality assessments in reviews and empirical research in music listening and cognitive performance.
• Conduct quantitative data synthesis using sign test.

Research Assistant - University of Leeds

(2016-01 - 2016-12)

Hearing aids for music - Quantitative Data Analysis

• Perform data entry and data cleaning.
• Perform data analysis using chi-square analysis.

Ph.D. - Applied Psychology of Music - University of Liverpool (2024-12)

MA - Applied Psychology of Music - University of Leeds (2016-12)

BSc (Hons) - Psychology - Northumbria University Newcastle (2015-12)