Simon Keith Gilbertson
Dr. rer. Medic., Dipl. M.T., Dip. M.Th., B.Mus.Hons., RMT
Dr. Simon Gilbertson is Junior Lecturer on the MA in Music Therapy program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
As a music therapy clinician he has worked in England and Germany in a range of clinical settings including work with children on the autistic spectrum, children and adults with cancer, neurological illness and disease. He has extensive experience working with people affected by traumatic brain injury and completed his doctoral research on music improvisation with people with traumatic brain injuries related to road traffic incidents in 2004 under the supervision of Professor David Aldridge.
He has worked as a research assistant on a major literature review project led by Professor David Aldridge at the Chair of Qualitative Research in Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Dr. Gilbertson has presented his work internationally has been published in journals including the Australian Journal of Music Therapy, BMC Medical Research Methodology, Canadian Journal of Music Therapy, Musiktherapeutische Umschau (Journal of the German Association of Music Therapy), Journal of Music Therapy, and the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy. He is co-author of the open source Music Therapy World Journal Index, which is the only existing comprehensive index of 12 major music therapy journals and also facilitated the publication of the first open access full-text database of the Australian Journal of Music Therapy and the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy. He has written two book chapters on music therapy with people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and has written his first book on music therapy and traumatic brain injury together with David Aldridge for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Simon has recently been awarded a research grant within the UL Faculty Seed Funding Programme 2007-2008 to carry out an investigation into the current state of music therapy research on the island of Ireland.
20 February, 2008
