Part-time MA in Music Therapy
(Community Music Therapy / Nordoff-Robbins)
This programme is the first part-time training programme from Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, and also the first training to focus on the emerging approach of Community Music Therapy, and how this interfaces with the established practice and training tradition of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
The MA programme is presented by Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy (London), Nordoff-Robbins North West (Manchester) and in collaboration with the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, validated by City University London.
The programme has been specifically designed to interface with the developing Nordoff-Robbins regional services, which have been located in areas of the UK where music therapy provision is currently low. It has also been specifically designed to provide a part-time training to people unable to access the current full-time programmes mostly located in the London and South-East area.
The programme offers an innovative part-time practice-based professional training for musicians wanting to develop their therapeutic skills (for example, outreach musicians, community musicians and music teachers). The developing approach of Community Music Therapy is discussed here in a recent article by Gary Ansdell (Director of Education, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy) in LINK Magazine.
The part-time delivery of the programme will allow students to pursue a limited amount of other professional activity during the training period.
The programme will run for 5 semesters (30 months), with a requirement that students:
- Spend a day a week (9am-5pm) on a supervised ‘placement residence’ (the first of which will be in the Manchester area)
- Attend a 7 hour on-site training session one day per week (from 1-8pm) at the Royal Northern College of Music, organised by Nordoff-Robbins
- Pursue an e-learning programme of private study and musical skills practice of at least 8 hours per week.
Key features of the programme
- A series of three placement residences on which students will spend 1 day per week. The 3 placements will involve contrasting clinical populations (with children and adults) and varying organisational contexts. These placement residences will give students a chance to become involved with the life of each placement community.
- This placement learning is complemented by a structured taught programme of lectures, workshops and seminars delivered at the training base on a second day per week at the training base at the Royal Northern College of Music.
- There will also be five residential weekends across the programme, and two residential weeks.
- Students’ personal and professional development will be supported by a range of individual and group supervision, mentoring, professional support and personal development components.
- The programme requires private study and skills practice for 8 hours per week. The programme’s e-learning dimension will provide a range of specially-designed course material to help students organise and access their own learning needs.
Graduates of the programme will be eligible to apply for registration for the protected title ‘music therapist’ with the Health Professions Council.
For more detailed information about the programme download the Guide for Applicants.
To apply please download and complete the Application Form, emailing it to matraining@nordoff-robbins.org.uk as soon as possible.
Further inquiries: matraining@nordoff-robbins.org.uk
