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Music Therapy restores hope
MA Music Therapy graduate Emily Corke reports on the positive effects of therapeutic arts sessions with a group of young Indian girls."After my MA training at Anglia Ruskin University in 2012 I started clinical work as a qualified music therapist in January 2013. I dived into the deep end, to Kolkata, with a group of arts professionals called Talitha Arts, to run a 2-week intensive course of therapeutic arts sessions with girls aged 8-18, all of whom had survived sexual abuse and human trafficking."
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The Tony Wigram Music Therapy Charity Visiting Fellow Lecture
Music, Music Therapy and Mental Health
Date: Tuesday 12 March 2013
Time: 18.30
Venue: Nordoff Robbins London, 2 Lissenden Gardens, London NW5 1PQ.
Speaker: Professor Dr Denise Grocke
The need to adopt an eclectic attitude to music therapy will be demonstrated by reference to clinical improvisation, receptive music therapy and songwriting - all of which were embraced and researched by Professor Dr Tony Wigram.
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Book launch sees first for Music Therapy
A new publication co-edited by Helen Odell-Miller, Professor of Music Therapy, was launched on 25 January 2013. Forensic Music Therapy - A Treatment for Men and Women in Secure Hospital Settings, edited by Stella Compton Dickinson, Helen Odell-Miller and John Adlam and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, demonstrates diverse and innovative approaches to music therapy...More details
Music therapy benefits youth at risk
The first-ever study to show the quantitative benefits of music therapy for teenagers at secondary school was discussed at the Music Therapy and Dramatherapy with Children in Educational and other Settings conference on our Cambridge campus in November 2012.More details
Music Therapy and Dramatherapy with Children in Educational and other Settings
Dates: 30 November - 1 December 2012Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Keynote Speakers: Clare Flower, Dr Phil Jones
Music Therapy and Dramatherapy with Children in Educational and other Settings is one of the first conferences to bring together music therapists and dramatherapists interested in working with children.
For more information visit the Department of Music and Performing Arts website.
Professor Odell-Miller to speak at NHS conference
Professor Helen Odell-Miller, Director of the Music for Health Research Centre, will be one of the Principal Speakers at an upcoming day-conference organised by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in conjunction with the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.More details...
New Music Therapy Book Collaboration
A new jointly edited book Music Therapy in Schools - Working with Children of All Ages in Mainstream and Special Education (published by Jessica Kingsley) shows how Anglia Ruskin's Music Therapy department continues to lead the field. The book demonstrates the variety of work taking place in different educational settings across the UK, helping children and young people of all abilities.More details...
RIP Professor Anthony Wigram (1953-2011)
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Tony Wigram, who died after a year's courageous battle against cancer.Tony was born in London in 1953 and, after attending St Lawrence College, completed a music degree at Bristol University. He qualified as a music therapist in 1974 from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also completed a degree in Psychology from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University, and later gained his Doctorate in Psychology at St. Georges Medical School, London University.
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Professor Odell-Miller presents keynote speech at International Arts Therapy conference
Helen Odell-Miller, Professor of Music Therapy and Director of the Music for Health Research Centre, presented the keynote speech at this year's International Centre for Research in Arts Therapies (ICRA) conference.The event, which took place on 13 July 2011 at Conway Hall, London, was attended by over 100 doctors, arts therapists and other professionals from around the world.
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Anglia Ruskin to establish UK's largest university-based Music Therapy centre
Anglia Ruskin University will establish the largest Music Therapy centre in a UK university thanks to the generosity of one of its honorary award holders.The donation from emerging markets expert Dr Jerome Booth is worth more than £1 million, taking into account the government's matched funding scheme, and will double the space available for research, training and practice.
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Amelia Oldfield at the TEDx conference
On 1 October 2010 Amelia Oldfield, MHRC researcher and Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy, was one of the speakers at the TEDx Mediterranean 2010 event.TED is a non profit organization devoted to 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. From its beginnings as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support these world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. In this spirit, the TEDx program was created - a series of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Tedx Mediterranean took place in Cannes with 300 invited delegates from around the world.
Music of Music Therapy Conference a great success
The Department of Music and Performing Arts in collaboration with the Music for Health Research Centre hosted a major conference on 26-27 February to discuss the specific nature of music within music therapy, a discipline that is now accepted and trusted to improve the physical and emotional well-being of a variety of individuals today.It featured...
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Music for Health director published on Voices website
Professor Helen Odell-Miller's article Update on Music Therapy in the United Kingdom was recently published on the Voices website, making the United Kingdom their Country of the Month for March 2009.The article explores different approaches to Music Therapy, training opportunities, professional requirements and the future of the industry within the UK.
The Music of Music Therapy Conference
Date: Friday 26 - Saturday 27 February 2010The Music Therapy Team at Anglia Ruskin University is pleased to announce a conference hosted by the Department of Music and Performing Arts.
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