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Professor Hilary Moss and a team of researchers have established sustained community engaged practice and research programmes in four communities in Ireland. In all four projects, MA Music Therapy students visit the sites weekly to develop their knowledge and understanding through clinical placements. Community partners supervise these students on placement. In each setting, a PhD student is engaged in long term relationships with community partners, who support creation of the research, research design, data collection and dissemination of results. In all settings, there is community service delivery of music therapy to people who need access to services to support their health and wellbeing but also rigorous research projects which are internationally unique. These projects are all offering (1) an essential music therapy service, designed and requested by community partners (2) key teaching and learning for UL students and (3) internationally significant research programmes.
At Croom Hospital, Miriam Cano Esteller is currently testing whether music therapy can alleviate pain and distress in the operating theatre, during minimally invasive procedures delivered under local anaesthetic, while Dr Katie Fitzpatrick supervises PhD and MA researchers and delivers the only music therapy service in a pain clinic in Ireland (developed through collaboration between UL and UHL). At Corpus Christi School, Sarah Alley provides a flexible music therapy service including community choirs and family therapy, whilst undertaking an ethnographic 3-year PhD study of how music supports the mental health of children with trauma. In Cork, Hannah Healy delivered a music therapy pilot for children experiencing grief, in collaboration with parents and local schools and is completing PhD research in this emerging field. And at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, James Burns completed his PhD research exploring the role of music therapy in supporting language rehabilitation in children with acquired brain injury. His work was conducted in close collaboration with speech and language therapists and forms part of a sustained community engaged research and practice programme between Rebecca O鈥機onnor, Creative Arts Therapy Lead, and Professor Hilary Moss 九色视频.
Project Partners: Corpus Christi School, Moyross; Croom Hospital UHL; National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dublin and Dillons Cross Project, Cork.
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