RMTh, PhD, LGSM

Senior Lecturer - Music Therapy

Office hours: Tuesdays 15.30-17.00

Room: Hel 073

Email: Amelia.Oldfield@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2979
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2979


Amelia Oldfield's research activity

Amelia Oldfield is a practising music therapist who has worked in the fields of Learning Disabilities, Child Development and Child and Family Psychiatry for the past twenty nine years. She currently works at the Croft Unit for Child and Family Psychiatry and at the Child Development Centre, Addenbrookes. Since 1994, she has been a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, teaching on the MA Music Therapy course which she helped set up. In 1985 she completed a three-year research project on music therapy with groups of adults with severe learning difficulties and obtained an MPhil from City University, London for this work. In 2000 she completed a two-year research project on music therapy with mothers and young children. That same year she became a Music Therapy Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, investigating music therapy with children with autistic spectrum disorder. This was a three-year research project funded by the Music Therapy Charity and led to a PhD in 2004.

Amelia Oldfield has recently published three books, two of which are on the interactive music therapy approach that has evolved out of her clinical practice and her PhD research (Jessica Kingsley publishers, 2006). She co-edited her most recent book with the music therapist, Claire Flower (2008). This book gathers together ten different chapters by music therapists working specifically with children and their families. Amelia Oldfield's earlier publication 'Pied Piper, Music Activities to Develop Basic Skills' published by Cambridge University Press has now been translated into Japanese, Greek and Russian, with translations into French and Chinese currently in process. She has also published many chapters and articles on various aspects of music therapy. She has made six music therapy training videos, one of which describes the music therapy training course at Anglia Ruskin University.

Amelia Oldfield is fluent in French and German and has run music therapy workshops and given lectures in France, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria, the USA, Canada and China as well as presenting papers at many international music therapy conferences. Amelia Oldfield is an enthusiastic clarinet player who performs regularly with various chamber music and orchestral ensembles around Cambridge.

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