Music and Wellbeing has an applied focus: its research projects and outcomes aim to have maximum impact in multiple ‘real world’ environments including music schools, concert halls, medical hubs and people’s own homes. A special focus of Music and Wellbeing is to understand the relationship between music and memory function, a strand of research that combines applied work with cognitive behavioural laboratory techniques.
Music and Wellbeing’s research programme thrives on active communication with external collaborators and interdisciplinary academic input from across the arts, social and health sciences. The unit provides a hub for researchers who are keen to work within their community and to contribute to wellbeing outcomes in Sheffield, across the UK and wider world.