Small Grants - Projects we have funded

December 2020

• Paul Fernie
• Victoria Kammin
• Joon Oh

May 2020 Small Grants Call

• Joanna Parsons (Report expected December 2022 - Covid delays)

December 2019 Small Grants Call

• Gemma Lenton-Smith: (Report expected July 2022 - Covid delays)
• Giorgos Tsiris (St Columba's Hospice): (Report expected December 2021 - Covid delays)
• Helen Wallace: (Report awaited - Covid delays)
• Tina Warnock: (Report expected July 2021 - Covid delays)

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: (Report awaited - Covid delays)
• Dr Julie Sutton: (Report awaited)

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: (Report awaited - Covid delays)
• 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:

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"