Projects
Our department’s strategy is to foster research collaborations with other researchers and research communities – both nationally and internationally. This is a rich source of mutual education and has fostered important networking for Nordoff-Robbins in research and educational domains. Through the academic seminars organised during the life of these collaborative projects we contribute significantly to the research education of the music therapy and health profession communities in locations around the world.
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Project 1
Project Title: Music and Health in Late Modernity: Resource-oriented Music Therapy and Community Music Therapy [Research Council of Norway Project 158700/530]
International Research Collaboration (2003-7) + Sub-Projects1A and 1B -
Project 2
Project Title: Music and Health in Everyday Life: Community Music Therapy with people in challenging healthcare environments
Nordoff-Robbins & University of Exeter (2005-ongoing)
+ Pilot Projects 2A+2B -
Project 3
Project Title: Dialogical singing as ‘musical companionship’: An exploration of the creative co-modulation of affect in music therapy with people living with psychosis
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Project in Adult Mental Health (2003-7) -
Project 4
Project Title: Music therapy for inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream primary education: an evaluation of a pilot project
Outreach Research Project: collaboration between Nordoff-Robbins, St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School & the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea LEA. (2002-3) -
Project 5
Project Title: Parents & Children: a team research investigation of parental involvement in their children’s music therapy
Team Research Project at the Nordoff-Robbins Centre (completed 2004) -
Project 6
Project Title: Music Therapy in Mental Health: Qualitative Outcomes
Interdisciplinary Research Project between Nordoff-Robbins & South Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Centre. (completed 2005)
The Research Department has also been associated with several ongoing music therapy research projects that have been initiated within other organisations, but have been supported at an informal level by the Nordoff-Robbins Research Department.
A good example of such a project is the informal collaboration of four Nordoff-Robbins clinicians (Simon Procter, Orii McDermott, Sarah Wilson and Clare Threlfall) and the occasional input of the Research Dept, in the first major RCT in music therapy during 2005: ‘Music therapy for in-patients with schizophrenia: an exploratory randomised controlled trial’.
The Nordoff-Robbins Research Associate, Simon Procter, has been credited as a co-author of the paper resulting from this research.
Collaboration-associated activity and material:
- Talwar, N.; Crawford, M.J.; Maratos, A.; Nur, U.; McDermott, O. & Procter,S. (2006) ‘Music therapy for in-patients with schizophrenia: an exploratory randomised controlled trial’. British Journal of Psychiatry 189: 405-409
- Planned publication (to be written by Simon Procter in association with the other music therapists) giving a perspective on the music therapists’ involvement with such an experimental design.