PhD, is Head of Research at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London, and Research Fellow in Community Music Therapy at Sheffield University. He works as a clinician (currently in adult psychiatry), as well as a trainer and researcher. He has published several books: Music for Life (1995) and, with Mercedes Pavlicevic, Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies: A Practical Guide (2001) and the recently published Community Music Therapy.