GAMUT - The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre conducts research on the relation between music and health, in clinical and everyday contexts.

25.05.10

Where Music Helps now available in paperback edition

Where Music Helps describes and reflects on the emerging movement that has been labelled Community Music Therapy, and it presents ethnographically informed case studies of eight music projects (localized in England, Israel, Norway, and South Africa).

20.05.10

Resource-Oriented Music Therapy in Mental Health Care

- Therapy is as much about stimulating clients’ strengths as it is about fixing problems or curing pathology, says Randi Rolvsjord. In her new book she descibes a resource-oriented approach to music therapy in mental health care.

30.04.10

Record high number of applicants to the MT-program in Bergen

In 2010 a new professional training in music therapy was established at the University of Bergen, as a five-year integrated program leading to the Masters degree.

28.04.10

Shortened submission-to-publication time in NJMT

Accepted papers in Nordic Journal of Music Therapy are now published online through iFirst as soon as the production process is complete.

26.04.10

Vacant position for Associate Professor in Music Therapy

At the Grieg Academy - Dept of Music, University of Bergen there is vacant a permanent position for Associate Professor in Music Therapy. The successful candidate will also be part of the research team at GAMUT.

13.04.10

3rd Norwegian Music Therapy Conference - Call for Papers

The third Norwegian Music Therapy conference will be held in Bergen, in May 2011. The main language of the conference is Norwegian, but abstracts in Scandinavian and English languages are welcome.

29.09.09

Electronic version of Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

For the first time in the history of NJMT, back issues are now available not only in print but also electronically, even those that are out of print.

Projects:

Periode 20.12.06 - 30.06.08

An Explorative Study of Community Music Therapy

A community music therapy research project conducted at GAMUT developing the links between theory-building and appropriate research strategies looking process and efficacy of context-sensitive projects of collaborative music-making.

Periode 20.12.06 - 30.08.08

An Explorative Study of Resource-oriented Music Therapy

Development of empirically grounded theoretical rationales for a saltogenic, resource oriented approach to music therapy

Periode 01.01.10 - 31.12.12

Effekter av musikkterapi for fengselsinnsatte: fase 2 (MT-PRIS2)

Bruk av musikkterapi i fengsel utforskes gjennom en såkalt Comprehensive Cohort studiedesign. Prosjektet blir gjennomført i Bjørgvin fengsel som ligger like utenfor Bergen og er et fengsel med lavere sikkerhetsnivå. Fengselet har en kapasitet på 90 innsatte, alle menn.