This piece follows on from last week and looks at the research surrounding playing or making music, mental health and my personal...

Some suggest (not just me) that playing music (or active, participatory engagement with it) can have a positive impact on emotion and...

I think that musicians are more emotionally sensitive to music listening but perhaps that’s just my own bias! But how or why do we use...

In my previous articles I explored whether musicians hold certain traits and characteristics that could make them more vulnerable to...

Carrying on from previous themes surrounding the traits and quirks of popular musicians, in this blog I’ll be continuing to explore this...

Following on from the previous writing on musicians and their mental health, (AKA are we weirdos?) In this weeks’ blog I look at the...

In this blog, I’ll be looking at the topic of musicians and the media portrayal of the ‘troubled genius’ or 'madness'...(Not the North...

As part of my doctoral research I looked into how seven musicians understood their mental health and their music engagement (musicking)....

2024 was a proud year for me as two of my academic papers were published. These papers (part of my completed doctoral thesis) opened the...

As often happens with the Tonic Music interviews , the real depth gets explored after or before the tape is rolling! In one previous...