International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a PhD student in the Institute for Education at Bath Spa University (since October 2016) and a practising community musician and music educator, currently designing my research into improvisation in community music. My interests in this area include ways to explore and understand the significance of such practice, such as for wellbeing and identity, and my methodological interests include narrative, case studies and other approaches to qualitative research. I am experienced in delivering arts & health projects within community music - such as a hospital-based music project and several Singing for Health projects. As a composer, songwriter, improviser, performer and recording artist myself, I am also experienced in informally using music for my own private therapeutic purposes. Reflection on my professional and personal experiences has given me an interest in the ways in which music education, community music, music therapy and everyday uses of music inter-relate.