Simon Procter CV

Name	Simon Procter
Nationality	British
Education	2005-present: PhD Sociology at University of Exeter Thesis supervised by Tia DeNora: 1997: Master of Music Therapy at Nordoff Robbins 1996: Postgraduate Diploma in Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy 1993: DipRSA 1990: BA (Hons) in Music at University of Cambridge
Work/academic experience	2007-present: Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London, Director, MMT Training Programme 2007-present: Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London, Research Associate 2006-2009: British Journal of Music Therapy (BJMT), Editor 2001-2005: British Journal of Music Therapy (BJMT), Assistant Editor 2000-2007: Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London, Research Assistant 2000-2003: Trinity College of Music, London, Improvisation tutor, Introduction to Music Therapy Module 1998-2006: St Clement’s Hospital, London, Music therapist 1997-present: Open House (MIND in Tower Hamlets), Music therapist 1996-2003: Oak Tree School, Enfield, London, Music therapist 1996-2003: Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London, Music therapist 1997-2000: Ravenswood Residential Village, Berkshire, Music therapist 1996-1998: Rosa Morrison Day Centre, Barnet, Music therapist 1996-1997: Winifred House Residential Hospital, Barnet, Music therapist
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Presentations	“Art, Culture and the Public Sphere: Expressive and Instrumental Values in Sociological and Economic Perspectives”. Joint Conference, European Sociological Association Research Networks for the Sociology of Culture and the Sociology of the Arts. Venice, Italy ‘Mind the musical gap. The regulation of arts therapies – a case study from music therapy in the UK’ (2008) “Through the looking glass”: Arts Council / Department of Health conference on the arts in health. “Music making as social capital generation for health” (2007) New Frontiers in Arts Sociology: International Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts, Germany. ‘Long-term patient or emergent musician? Supporting creativity as a strategy for sustainable well-being’ (2007) Polish National Music Therapy Conference. ‘Towards a poor music: reflections on intimacy in co-improvisational music therapy with reference to Jerzy Grotowski’ (2007) 7^th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Toruń, Poland. ‘Singing our way to community: social capital as informing construct within music therapy’ (2005) Economic & Social Research Council conference “Whither Social Capital”, London South Bank University, UK (2005) APMT/BSMT UK music therapy conference ‘Collaborative research into parents’ involvement in their children’s music therapy, London, UK (2005) 6th European Music Therapy Congress, Finland 2004 ‘Researching as a team: developing a community of inquiry’ (2004) 10^th World Congress of Music Therapy, Oxford, UK ‘Free to be well: improvisational music therapy as contrast within the psychiatric setting’ (2002) Forum “Art, Education, Modernity”, Lublin, Poland (2001) International Nordoff-Robbins Symposium, New York, USA (2001) 5^th European Music Therapy Congress, Naples, Italy (2001) 1^st Polish National Music Therapy Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland (1998)
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