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Amos Chiya, DM, PhD, is a creative strategist and systematic musicologist specialising in human-cultural geography as well as music cognition and perception. His transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research investigates how cultural hybridity, community exchanges, artistic interventions, and foundations of musical experience such as acoustics, physiology, and psychology contribute to sustainable development and regional revitalization. In addition, he also explores how the performing arts intersect with environmental law and governance to foster innovative, transdisciplinary responses to socio-environmental challenges, how performance-based techniques and musical experience shape learning and enhance cognitive development, and how cultural consonance and intercultural theory is used as a cross-cultural management strategy. 

Chiya is currently a lecturer in Japan and Singapore where he teaches research methods, AI ethics, sustainable development, critical thinking, ethnomusicology, sociomusicology, and also designs curriculum for music education as well as performing arts programmes. He received his PhD from the TAOYAKA program (2022-2025) with an interdisciplinary focus on cultural and human geography, sustainability and regional revitalization, arts and event management, and sociomusicology at Hiroshima University, where he was also Teaching Fellow, Next-Generation Research Fellow, Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, and a dual postdoctoral-level fellow and researcher in applied linguistics and public health. Having read environmental law under a mentorship with Emeritus Prof. Koh Kheng Lian (National University of Singapore), Chiya served as the Representative for Music and Culture for the Environment on the International Council of Environmental Law from 2020 to 2025.

Research interests:

  • Music Cognition and Perception
  • Performance Physiology
  • Cultural Hybridity
  • Human Geography
  • Arts, Cultural, and Event Management
  • Sustainability Studies
  • Sociomusicology
  • Cross-cultural Management
  • Environmental Governance