Katrina McFerran
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KATRINA McFERRAN, is Associate Professor and Head of Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne in Australia and Co-Director of the National Music Therapy Research Unit with A/Prof Felicity Baker. Katrina specialises in supporting young people to develop healthy relationships with music that promote personal growth and increased connectedness. She has been involved in a vast range of mutually empowering relationships with teenagers and children in hospitals, schools and community programs. Katrina has used music to support people as they cope with grief and loss, illness, disability and a range of challenges both at school and at home. Her work is currently focused on building strong music cultures in schools that promote connectedness and wellbeing between students, teachers and systems. This is supported by the MusicMatters Initiative, of which she is Co-Director with fellow music therapists Kate Teggelove and Lucy Bolger. http://www.musicmattersinschools.com.au/
Dr McFerran has published her research in international and interdisciplinary refereed journals and has contributed numerous case studies and practice reflections to edited books, as well as sole authoring her first text on ‘Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy in 2010 (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). Her research is essentially reflexive, frequently using qualitative methodologies to explore the unique experiences of young people in music therapy or to investigate patterns in the ways that music is appropriated for health. Dr McFerran has also contributed to a number of studies using quantitative methodologies that provide evidence for the benefits of music therapy. She coordinates three university-wide subjects that explore the affordances of music for health and wellbeing from different paradigms – Music Psychology, Music & Health and Music & Spirituality.
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