Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am available for secondary supervision of projects related to music therapy or music and health, especially with a focus on training/education, mental health (including service user experience), and projects involving ethnographic or critical discourse approaches.
Research activity per year
Donald Wetherick is a music therapist with over 30 years experience in work with children and adults facing challenges from developmental differences, neurodiversity, disrupted family life or mental illness. He currently works as a music therapist in adult mental health in Newham and as a music therapy trainer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Donald is Deputy Head of Music Therapy at the Guildhall School and also a researcher with a focus on music therapy training and pedagogy. He is a co-editor of the British Journal of Music Therapy and a former Chair of the British Association for Music Therapy (2012-15).
Music therapy training and its relationship to different kinds of musicianship and musicians; the qualitative experience of service users receiving music or other arts therapies; more generally, critical or discourse-focused research approaches to music and health.
PhD, The Assessment of Musicianship in Selection for UK Music Therapy Training: Performing 'Music Therapy Musicianship', City, University of London
2015 → 2022
Award Date: 18 Sept 2023
East London NHS Foundation Trust
31 Oct 2016 → …
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review