The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities have funded three new collaborative PhD projects designed to perfectly balance research and practice, commencing in September 2023. ‘Singing in balance: tuning and supporting socio-musical dynamics in group singing’ comprises interlinked doctoral projects supervised by a network of academic and partner organisations: Prof. Renee Timmers (University of Sheffield) with Mir Jansen (Arts in Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals); Dr Freya Bailes (University of Leeds) with Kate Wareham (Choir with No Name); Prof. Helena Daffern (University of York) with Emma Baylin (Shared Harmonies).
Freya Bailes
Craig Robertson speaks at forum for Music and Mental Health
Craig Robertson, one the directors for the Music for Healthy Lives Research and Practice Network, was invited to participate on a panel at a forum for Music and Mental Health, hosted by the School of Music at the University of Manchester. The event featured presentations and music by composer, visual artist and filmmaker Jim Aitchison (Falmouth University), whose video composition Contrapunctus focuses on mental-health issues, and composer Maria Palapanidou. In both cases, the artists explored how their creativity was in part inspired by mental health issues. Craig acted as a respondent as did drummer and director of the Kaleidoscope Orchestra, Steve Pycroft. The focus was very much on the mental health of the musicians and composers and ways people deal with mental health issues. There were many students in attendance at this online event, and many were concerned about how professional and artistic pressures affected the mental health of practitioners. Craig provided an alternative sociological perspective about the societal systems that have emerged over the centuries to form the professional musician class and the problems that have developed alongside that and noted how music can be and has been used for promoting good mental health when used in other less strenuous contexts such as community music and music therapy. Participants were encouraged to explore the Music for Healthy Lives Research and Practice Network and the work of its members and look out for an upcoming seminar series on Music and Prevention: Self-Care, which will be advertised on the network in due course.
Good wishes from the Music for Healthy Lives Research & Practice Network
Network event: Evaluating the impact of music
Evaluating the Impact of Music
30th April 2019
We look forward to hosting a network event dedicated to ‘evaluating the impact of music’.
Guest speakers include Angela Harrison, Commissioner for Public Relations at the World Federation of Music Therapy, and Simon Glenister, Director at Noise Solution.
All welcome. Please book your place via Eventbrite.
4.30-6.30pm | School of Music, University of Leeds