BA, LGSM, RMTh, MPhil, PhD

Deputy Head of the Department of Music and Performing Arts
Professor of Music Therapy


Room: Hel 256

Email: helen.odell-miller@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2045
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2045


Helen Odell-Miller's research activity

Helen Odell-Miller is a co-founder of the MA Music Therapy course at Anglia Ruskin University, and Director of the Music for Health Research Centre. Before joining Anglia Ruskin in 1994 she worked as a music therapist for over 15 years in the field of mental health, latterly as manager of the Arts Therapies services in mental health NHS and Foundation Trusts in Cambridge, where she still holds an honorary contract. She gained degrees at Nottingham University, City University, and Aalborg University, Denmark where she is now on the Advisory Board on the International PhD programme. She is a co-instigator of the NHS career structure in the UK for music therapists and a member of the Allied Health Professions Advisory Board.

She combines her academic role at Anglia Ruskin with teaching on the MA Music Therapy, active involvement in the departmental management including the development of The Music Therapy Clinic, new courses in the department, and music therapy clinical work.

Helen has published and lectured widely, and has been a keynote speaker at several national and international conferences in Europe, Australia and the USA. She has recently published the book Supervision of Music Therapy as a co-editor. She is an Advisor to the Association of Professional Music Therapists, and a founder of the European Music Therapy Council. She is currently actively involved in music performance as a singer in Cambridge Voices.

Her research areas include:

• Music Therapy and Dementia
• Music Therapy and Links with Diagnosis in Adult Mental Health
• Music Therapy and Personality Disorders
• Psychoanalytically Informed Music Therapy
• Arts Therapies and Mental Health

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