All Outputs (8)

"Music therapy is the very definition of white privilege": Music therapists' perspectives on race and class in UK music therapy (2024)
Journal Article
Mains, T., Clarke, V., & Annesley, L. (in press). "Music therapy is the very definition of white privilege": Music therapists' perspectives on race and class in UK music therapy. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, https://doi.org/10.56883/aijmt.2024.20

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd highlighted, once again, the racial and socioeconomic inequities permeating western countries, and galvanised music therapists in the UK and e... Read More about "Music therapy is the very definition of white privilege": Music therapists' perspectives on race and class in UK music therapy.

Experiences of music therapists sharing improvisation remotely during lockdown (2023)
Journal Article
Annesley, L., & Haire, N. (2023). Experiences of music therapists sharing improvisation remotely during lockdown. Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing,

Music therapy has faced challenges to practice during lockdown. This co-first authored study considers the literature on music therapy improvisation (MTI), and on meaning making in improvisation more generally. The authors explored the creative possi... Read More about Experiences of music therapists sharing improvisation remotely during lockdown.

‘Sewing Together’: An idiographic study of a music therapist’s experiences of a group at a special school for children and young people with severe and complex special educational needs (2021)
Journal Article
Annesley, L., & O'Neill, N. (2023). ‘Sewing Together’: An idiographic study of a music therapist’s experiences of a group at a special school for children and young people with severe and complex special educational needs. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, 15(2), 241-255

This research was commissioned by a school in London which provides for children and young people aged 2 to 16 with a wide range of learning difficulties. This single-participant study uses video annotation, video elicitation interview and interpreta... Read More about ‘Sewing Together’: An idiographic study of a music therapist’s experiences of a group at a special school for children and young people with severe and complex special educational needs.

Parents’ perspectives on their children’s music therapy: A synthesis of qualitative literature (2020)
Journal Article
Annesley, L., McKeown, E., & Curtis-Tyler, K. (2020). Parents’ perspectives on their children’s music therapy: A synthesis of qualitative literature. British Journal of Music Therapy, 34(1), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359457520907636

Introduction There is no existing qualitative synthesis of the music therapy literature on parents’ perspectives on their children’s music therapy. This study seeks to fill this gap, motivated by the first author’s experiences as a clinician/researc... Read More about Parents’ perspectives on their children’s music therapy: A synthesis of qualitative literature.

Parents’ perspectives on their child’s music therapy: A qualitative study (2020)
Journal Article
Annesley, L., Curtis-Tyler, K., & McKeown, E. (2020). Parents’ perspectives on their child’s music therapy: A qualitative study. Journal of music therapy, 57(1), 91-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thz018

This qualitative study explored parents’ perspectives on their child receiving individual music therapy in a community setting in an NHS service in London, UK. Parents of children aged 6-11 receiving or recently discharged from music therapy took par... Read More about Parents’ perspectives on their child’s music therapy: A qualitative study.

Two kinds of music therapy: Exploring ‘genre’ in the context of clinical practice (2019)
Journal Article
Annesley, L. (2019). Two kinds of music therapy: Exploring ‘genre’ in the context of clinical practice. British Journal of Music Therapy, 33(2), 74-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359457519878613

This article explores distinctions between different approaches to music therapy and how these distinctions might be relevant to clinical practice. The article adopts an exploratory subjective stance, with the author exploring the relevance of a perc... Read More about Two kinds of music therapy: Exploring ‘genre’ in the context of clinical practice.

Music therapy within an integrated project for families exposed to domestic violence: A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives (2018)
Journal Article
Annesley, L. (2018). Music therapy within an integrated project for families exposed to domestic violence: A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives. British Journal of Music Therapy, 32(2), 96-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359457518805281

This paper focuses on a collaborative project that took place from 2012-2015 between an NHS Music Therapy Service for children and young people, a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and the charity Housing for Women. Music therapy interventio... Read More about Music therapy within an integrated project for families exposed to domestic violence: A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives.

The Music Therapist in School as Outsider (2014)
Journal Article
Annesley, L. (2014). The Music Therapist in School as Outsider. British Journal of Music Therapy, 28(2), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/135945751402800207

This essay examines the institutional commonalities among several schools in which I have worked as a music therapist, illustrating how thinking about my role as an outsider has informed my therapeutic approach. I refer to the broader concept of the... Read More about The Music Therapist in School as Outsider.