Collaborative Insights Format: Hardback

Collaborative Insights provides new, interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between music and well-being at every point in life.

Katie Rose M. Sanfilippo is currently a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London in the UK. She is also an associated lecturer in music at University of Cambridge. Her current research is exploring the application of music-based interventions to support maternal mental health across different cultural contexts in Africa and the UK. She has worked with various policymakers, charities, and health organisations to promote maternal mental health in the educational and health policy agendas. She also worked for two years as a research assistant in the research team at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Charity.

Neta Spiro is a Reader in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music and an honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London. She was previously Head of Research at Nordoff Robbins, London. She was Research Fellow at the New School for Social Research, New York and Royal Holloway, University of London. Neta taught at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. Neta explores the potential role of music in peoples' health and wellbeing and the levels of shared understanding possible across a variety of forms of music making.