Music For Education & Wellbeing

In this episode, I’m talking with Dr Simon Proctor who is Director of Music Services (Education, Research and Public Affairs)  for Nordoff Robbins, the national music therapy charity. You may know Nordoff Robbins because of famous supporters like Nile Rodgers, Sting, Ricky from Kaiser Chiefs, and many others, as well as fundraising events given by people like the Premiere Football League and the Music Industry Trusts Awards. We talk about: We talk about: • how Simon became involved with music therapy • what music therapy is and does • the intersection between community music and music therapy • evaluation and evidence for music work with people, and some of Nordoff Robbins' current research projects • balancing advocacy and evidence, with communicating the craft of music work with people • and we finish with three pieces of advice for encouraging more communication and learning between music therapy, community music and music education