VOICE FUNCTION & COMMUNICATION - academic & researcher focus

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Good mental health and wellbeing is essential to our lives, and a growing wealth of research points to the biopsychosocial benefits of singing. Our second cycle of webinars will reflect on the latest evidence-based research, the knowledge, skills and tools required of facilitators, and theoretical implications for future strategies.

Contributors: Dr Arla Good & Prof. Frank Russo (Toronto Metropolitan University); Anni Pitkanlemi & Dr Teppo Sarkamo (University of Helsinki).

Respondent: Dr Dave Camlin

About the Contributors

Dr Dave Camlin is an award-winning musician from Cumbria UK whose practice spans performance, composition, teaching, Community Music (CM) and research. He lectures in music education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire and was Head of HE / Research at Sage Gateshead from 2010-19. His research interests include: CM, especially group singing; music, health and wellbeing; musician education. He has pioneered the use of Sensemaker® ‘distributed ethnography’ as a research method for understanding artistic and cultural experiences. His recent book Music Making and Civic Imagination explores the potential of musicing as both a complex adaptive system (CAS) and a global resource for sustainability.