International Health Humanities Network Membership

Hilary Moss is Senior Lecturer and Course Co-ordinator of the MA in Music Therapy at the World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland and previously the Director of the National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin. She completed her PhD in 2014 on Aesthetic Deprivation: the role of the arts for older people in hospital at Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine in 2014. Post doctoral research includes a large survey of the perceptions of the health and well-being benefits of choir singing (over 1700 participants); a study on music therapy and spirituality and the role of the curator in hospital.  She is a practicing Musician and Music Therapist and has an MBA in Health Service Management. Her research interests include arts therapies; singing and health; health humanities and inter-disciplinary research.  She is founder and Chair of the Arts and Health Research Cluster at UL as well as a collaborator on a research project exploring Dementia Friendly Hospital Design. She is representative on the European Music Therapy Confederation and member of the Health Research Institute at UL and the Irish Humanities Alliance (http://www.irishhumanities.com/). For more information see http://www.ul.ie/research/content/dr-hilary-moss