Nordoff Robbins

Research projects

Research projects within Nordoff Robbins and in cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary collaborations, form a crucial part of the Research Department’s activities. Click on the links below to download more information.

Project 1:

Music Therapy and Dementia Care
Project Title: Music Therapy in Dementia Care: Profiling, Stabilising and Evaluating Practice – Pilot Phase
Date: June 2009 – ongoing
Research team: NRDF (Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy and Dementia Practitioner-Research Forum)
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Project 2:

Music Therapy and Adults with Learning Disabilities
Project Title: Why Music? Investigating how music-centred music therapy meets the psychosocial needs of adults with Learning Disabilities and working towards a practice-based discourse (Pilot Study)
Date: June 2009 - ongoing
Research Team: Nordoff Robbins London Centre Saturday team
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Project 3:

Nordoff Robbins and Exeter University Collaborative Research Project
Project Title: Music and health in everyday life: Community music therapy with people in challenging healthcare environments
Date: May 2006 – ongoing
Research Team: Dr Gary Ansdell (Nordoff Robbins); Prof Tia DeNora (Dept of Sociology, University of Exeter); Prof Mercédès Pavlicevic (Nordoff Robbins); Rob Symanek (ethnomusicologist); Sarah Wilson (CNWL Mental Health Trust & SMART)
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Project 4:

International Music Therapy Collaborative Research Project
Project Title: Music and Health in Late Modernity: Resource-oriented Music Therapy and Community Music Therapy [Research Council of Norway Project 158700/530]
Dates: 2003-07
Research Team: Norway (Prof Brynjulf Stige, Dept of Music Therapy, University of Bergen), Israel (Dr Cochavit Elefant), South Africa (Prof Mercédès Pavlicevic, Dept of Music Therapy, University of Pretoria), UK (Dr Gary Ansdell, Nordoff Robbins).
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This collaborative project led to the publication of Where Music Helps: Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection (2010).

Project 5:

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Project in Adult Mental Health
Project Title: Dialogical singing as ‘musical companionship’: An exploration of the creative co-modulation of affect in music therapy with people living with psychosis
Dates: 2003-07
Research Team: Prof Jane Davidson (University of Sheffield); Dr Wendy Magee; Dr John Meehan (Consultant Psychiatrist); Simon Procter (Nordoff Robbins)
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Project 6:

Interdisciplinary Research Project between Nordoff Robbins and South Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Centre
Project Title: Music Therapy in Mental Health: Qualitative Outcomes
Dates: completed 2005
Research Team: Dr Gary Ansdell (Nordoff Robbins) and Dr John Meehan (Consultant Psychiatrist)
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Project 7:

Parents and Children
Project Title: Parents and children: A team research investigation of parental involvement in their children’s music therapy
Dates: completed 2004
Research Team: Nordoff Robbins London Centre Saturday team
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Project 8:

Nordoff Robbins, St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School, and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea LEA Collaborative Research Project
Project Title: Music therapy for inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream primary education: an evaluation of a pilot project
Dates: 2002-03
Research Team: Simon Procter (Nordoff Robbins) and Harriet Crawford (Nordoff Robbins)
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