In association with the Dept. of Music & Performing Arts,

Anglia Ruskin University

LAB026 Anglia Ruskin University | FREE entry

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14:30-15:15 Prof Helen Odell-Miller:

Improvisation in music therapy for building relationships and expression for people with dementia

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15:30-16:15 Prof Jorg Faschner:

The Neuroscience of music and improvisation

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Professor Helen Odell-Miller was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to music therapy (2016).

Professor Odell-Miller is Professor of Music Therapy and Director of the Music for Health Research Centre at Anglia Ruskin University, which was the first UK university to offer a Masters course on the subject.

Her research and clinical work has contributed to establishing music therapy as a profession.  She has published and lectured widely, and has been a keynote speaker at many national and international conferences.  

Professor Odell-Miller has always maintained her identity as a practising music therapist, whilst at the same time continuing to oversee the development of a pioneering research department that has achieved worldwide impact. 

As well as delivering the first randomised control feasibility trial in music therapy for people with dementia in the UK, she has also conducted significant research in the area of music therapy and adult mental health, most recently with people with personality disorders.  

 

Prof Jörg Fachner is Professor of Music, Health and the Brain. He's a specialist for translational issues of interdisciplinary research topics between medical, humanities and music sciences.  For 20 years Jörg has been working as a professional in the field of music therapy research. He's trained as a social scientist, graduated as an educationalist in music therapy, and received his doctoral degree in medical science in 2001 by studying changes of neural correlates of consciousness (EEG) during music perception.