Date: Tuesday 4 September 2012
Time: 18.30
Venue: LAB 026

The new academic year will be ushered in with the Inaugural Professorial Lecture of Professor Helen Odell-Miller (Professor of Music Therapy) entitled Music Therapy and Mental Health: methods, outcomes and challenges for the future.

Helen Odell-Miller is also an honorary music therapist at the Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust. She has worked as a clinician, researcher and manager specialising in adult mental health. She has published and lectured internationally and led research projects looking at clinical outcomes in dementia, and arts therapies in the adult mental health field. She is a board member of the International Centre for Research in the Arts Therapies, the Professional Advisory Board for Allied Health Professions and The Music Therapy Charity.

The lecture will explore the benefits of music therapy for the improvement of psychological and mental well being and will include the speaker's own experience, drawing on audio and visual examples of clinical work and research. Tea and coffee will be available in LAB 026 at 18.00, and a reception will follow the lecture.

All staff are warmly welcome to attend, and are requested to RSVP to Frances Watt by 29 August 2012.

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