Music Therapy Conversations

Dr Katrina Skewes McFerran is Professor of Music Therapy, Director of Graduate Research in Creative Arts Therapies, and Head of the new Masters of Creative Arts Therapies (Dance/Drama) at The University of Melbourne. She is a registered music therapist with the Australian association, and Commissioner for Research and Ethics of the World Federation of Music Therapy, as well as being an Editor of the open-access, online forum for music and health – Voices.no. She is also creator of the free-access MOOC – How Music Can Change Your Life – which is full of videos, podcasts and other educational resources for non-music therapists. Her career as a music therapy researcher has largely been focused on young people across a range of health, community and education contexts, and she has written numerous books, chapters and published more than 90 refereed journal articles on this topic. Her most recent publications include a critical review of the music therapy and adolescent literature (McFerran, K.S. (2019). Adolescen