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Dr Catherine Carr, PhD PGDip Music Therapy, Music Imagery Therapist

Catherine

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Music Therapy

Email: c.e.carr@qmul.ac.uk

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I am a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Music Therapy at the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health and Music Therapist at East London NHS Foundation Trust. I teach and supervise MA in Music Therapy students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and represent the British Association for Music Therapy on the Council for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR) as well as serving on a number of committees for research funding and the editorial board for the journal Music & Science.

I am a co-founder of the Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy (ARRIMT), an international network of service users and music therapists and the International Music Therapy Clinical Trials Network (IMTCT-Net), which seeks to share learning and enable collaboration for future clinical trials.

I supervise PhD students on topics relating to arts therapies and mental health, including intervention development, funded by Barts Charity.

Biography: I initially studied Music Technology at the University of York, before training as a music therapist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. My first study was a pilot randomised controlled trial of group music therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. Since then, I have held a number of NIHR awards including a Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London which focused upon modelling of processes and outcomes of intensive group music therapy for acute adult psychiatric inpatients, an NIHR Clinical Lectureship and a further study on group songwriting for chronic depression (SYNCHRONY study), funded by NIHR Research for Patient Benefit. These studies have developed concepts of group music therapy for different clinical environments and populations. In 2019, I completed an NIHR Clinical Trials Fellowship at the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit at QMUL and I am now leading a multicentre trial- the ERA study, funded by the NIHR HTA programme in collaboration with East London NHS Foundation Trust.

My clinical work is based in Mental Health Care for Older People’s services in East London NHS Foundation Trust, where I provide group and individual music therapy, alongside staff psychological supervision. I have completed Level 4 training in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery in Music and also Music Imagery methods.

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