Ep 48 Daphne Rickson

Associate Professor Daphne Rickson, PhD, teaches music therapy at
the New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī, Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand.  She has practiced music therapy
and undertaken research with a range of client populations but
particularly with children and adolescents in schools.  Her
research has involved critical analysis of the concept of
disability and investigation into music as an inclusive resource,
including: Participatory Action Research with young people who
have intellectual disability; an investigation into singing for
wellbeing in a Christchurch school severely affected by
earthquakes; song-writing with adolescents experiencing
life-limiting illness; and music therapy with children who have
Autism Spectrum Conditions. Daphne is co-author, with Katrina
McFerran, of Creating Music Cultures in the Schools: A
perspective from community music therapy (2014).


One of topics she touches on in this podcast is the importance of
NZ MT trainers collaborating with Maori to ensure their programme
is as welcoming/appropriate as it can be for Māori students,
while also noticing and valuing that Maori have their own healing
processes involving music.  For those interested in learning
more, Māori student, Ruby Solly’s writes of her use taonga puoro
in music therapy practice
at http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/handle/10063/8260.