Small Grants - Projects we have funded

May 2023

• Jane Brackley: "Music therapy in Education and Adolescent Identity Formation: The Impact and Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma".
• Victoria Kammin: "Understanding Child and Parent Experience of receiving Music Therapy in a Children's Hospice setting: a qualitative study of child and parent experiences and perspectives".
• Gillian O'Dempsey: "A child rights informed inquiry into children's experiences of music therapy in mainstream primary schools".
• Leanne O'Keeffe: "The Effect of Music Therapy on Behavious that Challenge for Children with Dravet Syndrome".

December 2022

• ARRIMT: "Designing a research project as part of the Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy (ARRIMT): An international collaboration among music therapy service users, practitioners and researchers". Report due end of April 2024.
• Emma Maclean: "Creating conditions to co-shape meaningful personalised measures in the arts therapies in statutory community mental health services: Arts-based transformational action research".
• Joon Oh: "Music Therapy with Young People from Multicultural Backgrounds: A mixed-methods exploration of the experience through the lens of person-centred practice framework".
• Joanna Turner: "Siblings, silence, and sounds: Exploring the impact of music therapy on a child with selective mutism, when in the therapy with a sibling".
• Tina Warnock: "How can the use of non-verbal interplay in music therapy support the development of vocal communication in verbal and non-verbal autistic children?" (report expected end of 2024)

May 2022

• Hilary Davies/Beth Pickard: "Understanding the Lived Experiences of Disabled Music Therapists and Disabled Music Therapy Students in the UK"
• Vicky Kammin: "Experiences of Music Therapy in Paediatric Palliative Care from multiple stakeholder perspectives"

December 2021

• Joon Oh: "Music therapy with young people from multicultural backgrounds in South Korea: A mixed-methods exploration of the experience through the lens of person-centred practice famework" - Interim Report. 
• Tara Roman: "What is important about music therapy for children and young people with complex disabilities?  How do children and young people with complex disabilities and music therapists work together in music therapy?" - Interim Report.

May 2021

• Jane Brackley

December 2020

• Paul Fernie: "Music Production and Mobile Technology in Music Therapy Practice" - Interim report
• Victoria Kammin: "Experiences of Music Therapy in Paediatric Palliative Care from multiple stakeholder perspectives"
• Joon Oh: Development and Application of Music Therapy Programme for Multicultural Youth 

May 2020 Small Grants Call

• Joanna Parsons: "Health Musicking Practices in a Mainstream School"

December 2019 Small Grants Call

• Gemma Lenton-Smith: "The Role of Music Therapy for Children in a Primary Mainstream School Setting.  A Practitioner Case Study Exploration."
• Giorgos Tsiris (St Columba's Hospice): (Report awaited - Covid delays)
• Helen Wallace: (Report awaited - Covid delays - expected October 2024)
• Tina Warnock: "How can the use of non-verbal vocal interplay in music therapy support the development of vocal communication in verbal and non-verbal autistic children?"

May 2019 Small Grants Call

• Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy (ARRIMT): (Report awaited - Covid delays)
• Laura Cook: "The musical experiences of people with aphasia: A phenomenological thematic analysis"
• Joanna Parsons: "Community Music Therapy and School Environments:  Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship"
• Catherine Richards: "Specialist Music Workshops for People Living with Dementia and their Relatives/Carers - an Evaluation"
• Dr Julie Sutton: "Towards a Theory of Improvisation for UK Music Therapy"

December 2018 Small Grants Call

• Luke Annesley: "Development of categories for parent evaluation of children's music therapy in an NHS community setting."
• Elizabeth Coombes: "The singing unit - can a music therapy workshop in a neonatal unit incease parents' ability bond with their babies and reduce anxiety? A mixed methods pilot study undertaken by Elizabeth Coombes"
• Nicky Haire: Investigating humour in music therapy
• Maren Metell: "Co-musicking with neurodiverse families in a music café.  Making music, sharing experiences, learning together."
• Charlotte Miller: "Intergenerational Music Making"
• Emma Windle: "A Survey of Preferences for the Arts Therapies"
• Juliet Wood: Music therapy with girls with autism.  A new understanding and its implications for music therapy clinical work and service development
• Stuart Wood: Aeriel: Online

May 2018 Small Grants Call

• Philippa Derrington & Others: Improvisation in music therapy: conversations, methods and meaning
• Zsuzsa Foldes: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging and music: an experimental research with the acoustic environment"
• Joanna Parsons: See May 2019 Report
• Giorgos Tsiris: Trends, patterns and gaps in music therapy and spitituality: A systematic review of the research literature

December 2017 Small Grants Call

• Panayotis Ntourntoufis: Presentation of two papers at the BAMT Conference
  • "Towards a National Baseline for Clinical Work With Psychosis. Using a controlled audit of hospital episodes statistics to show the efficacy of long-term music psychotherapy."
  • "Practical quantitative evaluation of music therapy with young adults with complex conditions."
• Irene Pujol Torras: "The use of group vocal improvisation as a music therapy technique in a mental health setting"
• Maya Sherwin: The role of traditional Amazonian songs as theraputic tools in psycho-emotional healing: A phenomonological study of musical experiences during the ceremonial practice of traditional medicine at Takiwasi

May 2017 Small Grants Call

• Claire Flower: Music Therapy with Children and Parents in a Child Development Service: A Qualitative Study of the Dynamics of Expertise
• Veronic Austin: An investigation in the assessment and evaluation procedures of individual music therapy for young people with intellectual disability in special schools

December 2016 Small Grants Call

• Phoene Cave: The Lung Cycle
• Giorgos Tsiris: Evaluating Nordoff Robbins music therapy services in the UK: Exploring the qpplicability and transferability of impact areas
• John Strange: Improvised Music to Support Intensive Interaction for Children with Complex Needs: A feasibility study of brief adjunctive music therapy

May 2016 Small Grants Call

• Jessica Atkinson: Does working with carers affect music therapists' concept and practice of therapy?
• Elizabeth Denton-Reed: Music Therapy with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Students: A Service Evaluation
• Claire Flower: Music Therapy with Children and Parents in a Child Development Service: A Qualitative Study of the Dynamics of Expertise

December 2015 Small Grants Call

• Irene Pujol-Torras: Exploration of the use of Group Vocal Improvisation (GVI) as a Music Therapy technique in a Mental Health setting.
• Giorgos Tsiris: Performing spirituality in music therapy: Towards action, context and the everyday
• Stella Jean Dickinson: To enable time off clinical work over six weeks for focused writing of a post-doctoral music therapy manual that is based on ten years of research and development in secure hospital settings.  Title: "The clinician's guide to forensic music therapy".

May 2015 Small Grants Call

• Claire Flower: 'Music Therapy with Children and Parents in a Child Development Service: A Qualitative Study of the Dynamics of Expertise.':  The study has involved running multiple focus groups with three different cohorts of participants: parents whose children are currently having music therapy, music therapists within the Child Development Service (CDS), and a cross-disciplinary group of staff within the CDS.  The small grant has funded research time during the recruitment and data collection periods of the study, enabling these phases of activity to be completed within the planned timeframe.
• Ntourntoufis Panayotis: The main aim of our research at the Gordon Hospital is to show that music psychotherapy can reduce hospital readmission rates of patients with the above diagnoses, therefore saving the NHS money and improving both the quality of life and the life expectancy of these 'career patients' (report awaited).

Lisa Margetts: "Psychodynamic Music Therapy and the work of classroom practitioners with children with complex needs in Belarus"