Anglia Ruskin University

Director

Professor Helen Odell-Miller

Professor Helen Odell-Miller's work as a clinician and researcher focuses on the field of Adult Mental Health, and her research areas include Music Therapy and Dementia, Music Therapy and Links with Diagnosis in Adult Mental Health, Music Therapy and Personality Disorders, Arts Therapies and Mental Health, Supervision in Music Therapy. She is an Advisor to the British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), and a founder of the European Music Therapy Council. Until Sept 2006 she was Research Lead for the Allied Health Professions in The Cambridge and Peterborough Mental Health NHS Trust, and a Clinical Research specialist there. She was also a member of the Nuffield working group on the Arts Therapies and the Arts for Health Agenda, and author of the Scoping paper 'Artists and Arts Therapists' which was used to advise the government on these areas. She is currently advising The Royal College of Psychiatrists on developing music therapy education for Psychiatrists.

Professor Tony Wigram 1953 - 2011

For biographical details please see Professor Wigram's obituary on the news pages.

Dr Amelia Oldfield

Dr Amelia Oldfield's empirical research centres upon Learning Disabilities, Child Development and Child and Family Psychiatry. From 2001-3 she was 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. The work from that project resulted in two sole-authored books published in 2006. She is an Advisor to the British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), and an International expert in research, invited to the Berlin Symposium in August 2007, for example which is the leading research symposium in the world for music therapy. Amelia's work is also known and referred to by other professional groups such as psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, as reflected in the CRASH International symposium on Music Therapy and Autism which she led in conjunction with Cambridge University in May 2006.

Eleanor Richards

Eleanor Richards is an expert in Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis and Music Therapy. Her research expertise is also in the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and attachment theory. Her publications include a seminal book on music therapy and group -work. She has been the scientific co-ordinator of the Anglia Ruskin University Music Therapy National conferences, and has presented papers in Canada, Australia and Greece as an invited presenter. She is co-editor of the book Music Therapy Supervision with Dr Helen Odell-Miller which will be published by Routledge in 2008.

Helen Loth

Helen Loth has specialised in aspects of music therapy in the adult mental health settings of Forensic Psychiatry and in Eating Disorders. She has contributed chapters to two books on these subjects and presented several papers at conferences across Europe. Her research projects include a study of the assessment criteria for music therapy training applicants. She has a particular research interest and expertise in the use of multi-cultural music in music therapy and is currently researching the therapeutic aspects of the Indonesian gamelan playing.