Conference report: ‘Striking a Chord’; Music, Health and Wellbeing: Current Developments in Research and Practice – Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg

Volume 3 (2) 2011 – Conference Report

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Striking a Chord’; Music, Health and Wellbeing: Current Developments in Research and Practice

Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg

 

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‘Striking a Chord’; Music, Health and Wellbeing: Current Developments in Research and Practice
9-10 September 2011
Sidney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University, Folkestone UK

 

Biography
Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg has a PhD in applied ethnomusicology, funded by a scholarship from Roehampton University. Her work focussed on Lutheran Australian Aboriginal choral singing and constructs of identity, health and wellbeing. She has been awarded grants by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, SEMPRE and the British Academy to disseminate her work and conduct small preliminary studies. Currently she is networking, publishing her outcomes and looking for further research and knowledge exchange opportunities.

Email: muurtje50@gmail.com