AIRS Annual Report Year 1 Sub-Theme 3.3: Singing and Health
Submitted by Dr. Jennifer Nicol (April 1, 2009 – March 31, 2010)
Team Members
Stephen M. Clift, Rena Sharon, Gottfried Schlaug, Mary L. Gick,
Janice Richman-Eisenstat, Ian R. M. Cross, Bradley Vines, Chris M.
Blanchard, Laurel Young, Kay Kleinerman, Jennifer A. Nicol.
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Nicol & Clift with assistance from Cross and other
colleagues of Clift, worked on systematic review of the
literature on group singing, wellbeing and health benefits;
manuscript submitted April 2010 for a special issue of the
online journal of UNESCO, with guest editor, Larry O’Farrell,
UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning. -
Nicol & Clift collaborating in area of singing and COPD
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Anticipated future visits – Nicol to England, Clift to Canada
(University of Saskatchewan) -
Sharon arranged for AIRS presentation as part of VISI,
speakers Frank Russo & Darryl Edwards -
Gick involved in AIRS administration – policy and planning
committee; steering committee (Theme 3.3 representative);
wrote a review paper on singing and health entitled, “Singing,
health and well-being: A health psychologist’s review” and
submitted it to Psychomusicology for special issue on singing.
Revision of paper is under review. -
Young promoting AIRS at Annual conference of the Canadian
Association for Music Therapy, May 2010 in Halifax, NS; doing
occasional singing and health workshop at Wellspring, a cancer
support centre (see http://www.wellspring.ca/) and her
workshop model is being used to start another program
facilitated by another music therapist at a different
Wellspring centre in Ontario. -
Kleinerman & Cohen completed data gathering for Later
Life Singing study; anticipated involvement of student(s) in
data analysis stage. -
Nigel Brown progresses on establishing first Canadian pilot
of UK Sing for your Life in the Okanagan, BC. A silver Song
Club is forming in Kelowna with anticipated Fall 2010 start
date.
Student Involvement
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Jean Emmerson, PhD Candidate, University of Saskatchewan;
action research study on implementation of singing program
with teen mothers and their infants. -
Marieke Blom, MEd Canadidate, University of Saskatchewan;
Thesis is evaluating impact of a group singing intervention on
attachment between infants and their mothers who are involved
with the Saskatoon Maternal Mental Health Program. -
Marya Stonehouse, MEd Candidate, University of Saskatchewan,
research assistant for grounded theory study of group singing
as a health practice for choir members. -
Katie McCaw, BA student in psychology, University of
Saskatchewan, anticipated RA involvement from Sept 2010 on
grounded theory project described above. -
Carina Daugherty, MA in psychology at Carleton University
will complete her honours thesis 2010/11. -
Sally Busch joined AIRS student network and will begin
preliminary work on her MA thesis; expected date of completion
is Summer 2012. -
3 PhD students at the Sidney de Haan Research Centre for Arts
and Health working on singing research (psycho-physiology of
singing, developing Silver Song Clubs in Rome and singing,
facial mobility and Parkinson's disease) who are keen to be
involved in the AIRS network.
Presentations
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Nicol, J.J. & Lalonde, G. (2010, June). Singing,
Resiliency and Identity: Three Adolescent Francophone Girls’
Stories of Singing. Pathways to Resilience II: The Social
Ecology of Resilience, Halifax, Canada. -
Nicol, J.J. (2010, May). Music Therapy and the AIRS Project.
Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Music
Therapy, Halifax, Canada. -
Cohen, A.J., Gick, M.L., & Sullivan, J. (2010, May).
Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS):
Developmental perspectives. Poster presented at Development
2010: A Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology,
Ottawa, ON.
Suggestions
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Laurel Young asked for AIRS presence at CAMT 2011 Winnipeg
conference – Jennifer planning to attend and will take
responsibility for organizing panel, symposium, poster(s) or
whatever is possible and most suitable.
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