Presented by Monash University
Wednesday 30 October, 7.30-8.45 am AEDT
ONLINE
Presenters: Alexandra Coulter and Bronwen Ackermann
Moderators: Professor Margaret Barrett, Dr Aura Go, Ms Katherine Zeserson.
Creativity is essential for the wellbeing of many, and the act of community-based creativity is well-known for its ability to improve health and well-being and in fostering communities. Join us for an online webinar where you can contribute to the conversation. Listen to the unique insights of panellists who contribute their experience as researchers and expert practitioners to the discussion as we investigate how co-creation in music may shape the health and wellbeing of our communities.
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Alexandra Coulter is Director of the UK National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) which launched in March 2021. It was established in response to Recommendation 1 in the Creative Health report, which was published in 2017 following a two-year inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG). The NCCH’s mission is to: advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. NCCH is a partner in the UKRI research programme ‘Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities’and recently delivered the Creative Health Review which will make recommendations to the government. She was Director of Arts & Health South West from 2010-2024 and the Arts Coordinator at Dorset County Hospital from 1998-2013.
Dr Bronwen Ackermann is a specialist musicians’ physiotherapist, musculoskeletal anatomist and musicians’ health researcher at the University of Sydney. Her interest in performing arts health grew as a result of working with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 1995, going on to work on improving occupational health as well as developing best-practice injury prevention and management strategies with all the major Australian Orchestras, as well as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. She received a Churchill fellowship in 2002 allowing her to spend time with international colleagues involved in both research and clinical work in the field of music medicine. She completed her PhD in 2003 looking at physiotherapy management of performance-related musculoskeletal injuries in violinists, and joined academia in 2006, where she has lectured in physiotherapy and functional musculoskeletal anatomy.She continues to conduct research into musicians’ health focussing on performance-related injury prevention, performance-related injury assessment and management, optimising performance through enhancing physical and psychological well-being, and understanding the anatomical, physiological and biomechanical mechanisms underpinning musical performance.