Research
Research is a key aspect of the charity’s activity.
The Research Department was established in 2002 to:
- Build a research community for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy through supporting staff, students in clinical training, and research students.
- Design research projects to explore, develop and sustain the viability of music therapy practice in all clinical and psycho-social areas.
- Promote research into Nordoff-Robbins music therapy through academic publications, presentations and professional events.
The newly-established MPhil/PhD Research Degree Programme (validated by City University) offers the first specialist doctoral programme in the UK for music therapy research. The Research Department also provides research education on the two Nordoff-Robbins Masters level training programmes.
Specialist research resources are available within the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre library − which is open to music therapy researchers and students (and which includes access to completed Masters dissertations on a variety of music therapy areas).
Occasional research seminars and symposia are organised by the Research Department to present ongoing research projects to a wider audience, or to address current research-related issues with an invited inter-disciplinary peer-group.
The Research Dept aims to contribute and support the overall academic activity of the charity, which has an acknowledged track-record in both publications and professional-level presentations.
The Research Department is involved in a range of research projects, in the UK and internationally, and is committed to developing a community of enquiry, to help strengthen and expand music therapy research, theory and practice. ‘Presenting the Evidence’ has been an internationally successful publication − written by members of the Research Department to guide practitioners facing the demands of evidence-based practice.
