Keynote Presentations:
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Music Therapy Advances in Neuro-disability II: dialogues in
neuroscience, research and clinical practice
International Conference
June 12th & 13th 2015
Venue: The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability,
London, UK
Following the success of the first Music Therapy Advances (MTA) conference in 2013, the
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London will be hosting another MTA conference on
June 12th-13th 2015. This international conference aims to draw leading researchers and
practitioners in music therapy, neuro-rehabilitation, psychology, and neuroscience using
music based interventions to address the needs of those with acquired developmental
and neurodegenerative conditions.
A wealth of quality abstract submissions have been received from an international field,
with a broad focus covering the diversity of current music therapy practice in neurodisability. Topics have included:
- Specialist music therapy techniques designed to improve communication,
mobility and participation in daily activities for those with traumatic brain injuries,
stroke and Parkinson’s disease
- Novel and innovative research methods
- Neuro-scientific explorations of music therapy
- Music therapy with paediatric populations including autistic spectrum disorders
Early bird rate before April 1st: £250
Cost per delegate after April 1st: £300 / Student £200
Friday evening social event: £25, please see separate flyer
FURTHER DETAILS FOR THIS PRESTIGIOUS CONFERENCE CAN ALSO BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE WEBSITE:
www.rhn.org.uk/mta2
Or contact: Phili Denning, E: institute@rhn.org.uk, T: +44 208 780 4500 x 5140
Keynote Presentations:
The "Pop Selfie": Rebuilding fragmented identities through therapeutic songwriting
Associate Professor Felicity Baker, University of Melbourne
Felicity Baker is Associate Professor and Australia Research Council Future Fellow based at the Centre for Music,
Mind and Wellbeing, The University of Melbourne. After training as a music therapist, she established the first music
therapy position in neurorehabilitation in Australia 1992 and currently runs a small practice at Epworth
Rehabilitation Hospital. Over the past 20+ years, she has established herself as a leading scholar in the field of
Neurorehabilitation with special interests in singing to address communication impairments, and in songwriting as a
medium for change in identity. She has authored two books including “Music Therapy in Neurorehabilitation: A
Clinician’s Manual”, and has over 90-refereed publications. She is immediate Past President of the Australian Music
Therapy Association, former Editor of The Australian Journal of Music Therapy, and currently serves as Associate
Editor for the Journal of Music Therapy. Her extensive publication record, editorial appointments, and her many
research endeavours have earned her a prestigious UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2008), an ADC
Australian Leadership Award (2011), and high profile speaker invitations including the Australasian Brain Impairment
Conference (2014), and the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress (2014). Felicity’s current research
focuses on developing models of therapeutic songwriting to address identity post injury with a view to quantify
outcomes and to identify and measure the mechanisms of change.
Biomarkers of the music therapy process and effectiveness in psychiatric and
neurorehabilitation
Professor Jӧrg Fachner, Anglia Ruskin University
Professor Fachner has been working in Germany and Finland before he came to the UK to start a position as a
Professor of Music, Health and the Brain at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Starting at the Chair for
Qualitative Research in Medicine in Germany in the 1990s he worked together with David Aldridge at the Faculty for
Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke. For his PhD in 2001 he researched neural correlates of consciousness during
music listening. Being a musician and connected to the Nordoff/Robbins Music Therapy training offered a profound
insight and study of improvisational procedures and thinking. Working with physiologists situated in the same
building and faculty sparked his idea to combine neuroscience and music research to understand Music Therapy.
Moving to Finland in 2008 he wired 79 depressed clients to an EEG in order study Music Therapy treatment effects
on the electrical current flow of the brain. Results were published in high-ranking journals and several streams of
data were analysed. Biomarkers, especially mobile and telemetric applications that inform about treatment and the
process of doing music therapy are his current focus of research.
Empirical windows to music therapy: promises and limitations of the neuroscience approach
Professor Mari Tervaniemi, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki
Prof. Mari Tervaniemi obtained her PhD in psychology in 1997 (University of Helsinki) and titles of docent in 1999
(University of Helsinki and University of Jyväskylä). In addition to University of Helsinki, she has worked at the
University of Jyväskylä as a professor of psychology (acting professor and permanent part-time professor). She has
also worked in Leipzig as a visiting Marie Curie fellow at the University of Leipzig in close collaboration with the
researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Currently she works as a professor
in psychology at the University of Helsinki. She is the head of Cognitive Brain Research Unit and also the head of
Brain and Music team. Prof. Tervaniemi has published over 140 empirical papers and reviews in peer-reviewed
international journals and several invited book chapters. Her research topics cover auditory neurocognition as well
as the brain basis of musical expertise and music emotions. Of particular interest to her is to apply knowledge
acquired within the framework of basic science into rehabilitation, education, and special education.
For further information, see www.cbru.helsinki.fi/music
Music therapy advances in neuro-disability: to infinity and beyond?
Dr Julian O’Kelly, Research Fellow, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Julian has worked in both palliative care and neuro-rehabilitation as a music therapy clinician, manager,
educationalist and researcher for the last fifteen years and regularly presents at international symposia and
conferences. In addition to his research work, he is an expert panel member in acquired brain injury for the NHS
National AHP Clinical Expert Database, an active member of the Society for Research Rehabilitation, and co-ordinates
the Music Therapy Neurology Jiscmail Internet forum (details: http://goo.gl/MZs8f1). During his recent post as PhD
Mobility Fellow with Aalborg University, he published several peer-reviewed papers from his doctoral research on
music therapy with disorders of consciousness. These papers have garnered considerable interest from health care
and neuroscience professions alike, including invited presentations to symposia in America, Canada and across
Europe.
Music Therapy Advances in Neuro-disability II: dialogues in
neuroscience, research and clinical practice
June 12th & 13th 2015
Programme
FRIDAY 12th JUNE
8.30
Registration and refreshments
9.15
Introduction and speed networking session
9.45
Keynote Presentation – Empirical windows to music therapy: promises and limitations of the
neuroscience approach, Professor Mari Tervaniemi, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University
of Helsinki, Finland
10.45
Morning Refreshments
11.15
12.00
‘Music Therapy research project; interdisciplinary working and family support for prolonged
disorders of consciousness patients; Rebecca O’Connor, Senior Music Therapist, National
Rehabilitation Hospital, Ireland
‘Learning from little ones: exploring evidence-based music therapy practice with paediatric longterm brain injury patients’, Marissa Emple, Elizabeth Seton Paediatric Center, USA
12.45
Lunch with Poster Presentations
13.45
‘The communicative processes of musicians engaged in synchronous play’ Sarah Faber, Music
Therapist, PhD Student, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Pecha Kucha Presentations: Innovations Category
14.30
‘Applying music therapy to develop a voice affected by spasmodic dysphonia’, Melanie Cornell,
Rafael Medical Centre, UK
‘Let’s move together – Group therapy within inpatient paediatric neuro-rehabilitation’, Michelle
Fisher, The Portland Hospital, UK
‘An innovative model; music therapy and interdisciplinary assessment/treatment for prolonged
disorder of consciousness patients’, Rebecca O’Connor & Alison McCann, National Rehabilitation
Hospital, Ireland
‘Music therapy rehabilitation with disorders of consciousness: a neurophysiological and
behavioural case study’ Sophie Rappich, & Julian O’Kelly, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, UK
‘Evaluating music-centred improvisational music therapy services in neuro-disability settings’,
Mercédès Pavlicevic, Giorgio Tsiris & Neta Spiro, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, UK
‘Supporting long term psychological rehabilitation through music therapy in the community: A
service evaluation’, Catherine Watkins, Attune Music Therapy & Michael Tansley-Thomas,
Headway Nottingham, UK
15.15
Afternoon refreshments
15.30
‘Influence of music therapy to improve daily life activities in Parkinson’s Disease patients’ Anna
Bukowska, Music Therapist, PhD Student, University of Physical Education, Poland
16.15 –
17.00
Keynote presentation- Biomarkers of the music therapy process and effectiveness in psychiatric
and neurorehabilitation, Professor Jӧrg Fachner, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
18.00
Social Event – please see separate flyer for details
SATURDAY 13th JUNE
8.30
Registration and Refreshments
9.00
Keynote presentation – The "Pop Selfie": Rebuilding fragmented identities through therapeutic
songwriting, Associate Professor Felicity Baker, University of Melbourne, Australia
10.00
Morning Refreshments
10.30
Developing 12 exercises using musical instruments and facilitating music for stroke patients with
‘upper limb hemiparesis’ Alex Street, Music Therapist, PhD Student, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
11.15
“'Ch Ch Changes'- Brain injury project fusing music therapy, studio recording and video” – Jon
Hall, Music Therapist, Nordoff – Robbins, UK
12.00
Lunch with Poster Presentations
Pecha Kucha Presentations: Method & Applications Category
13.00
‘Makey Makey – An instrument for everyone’, Helen Allen-Williams & Bernice Chu, Royal Hospital
for Neuro-disability, UK
‘Can listening to sound sequences facilitate movement? The potential for motor rehabilitation’,
Rebeka Bodak, Aarhus University, Denmark
‘Music and the brain: neuroplasticity across the lifespan. Implications for clinical intervention’, Vic
Lord, University of Roehampton, UK
‘Music as a tool for emotion recognition in autistic children’, Rafael Ramierez, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, & Nuria Escudé, Institut Català de Musicoteràpia, Barcelona
‘Neuroscientific and neuroanthropological perspective in music therapy research and practice’,
Professor Gerhard Tucek & Astrid Maria Heine, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems,
Austria
13.45
Afternoon refreshments
14.00
Keynote presentation – Music therapy advances in neuro-disability: to infinity and beyond?
Dr Julian O’Kelly, Research Fellow, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, UK
15.0016.00
Summing up and Panel Discussion with Keynotes and Oral Presenters
Music Therapy Advances in Neuro-disability II: dialogues in neuroscience, research and clinical practice
June 12th & 13th 2015
Keynote Presentations:
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