Writing, recordings and reports by the Songbirds Music UK team or linked to Songbirds Music for Health programmes.

Cavanagh, A., Livesley, J., Long, T., Dewhurst, R. and Grant, M. (2012). The RNCM Medical Notes Project at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital: Outcomes for Children, Families, Musicians and Hospital Staff. [online] University of Salford

Hawley R. (2021). Music-making in a Paediatric Hospital: A Reflexive Study of Musician Practice. PhD Thesis, unpublished (SOAS, University of London).

Hawley R., Fisher MV., Aston, E, Fairclough S. and Playfor, S. 'Music at times of critical isolation: pivoting hospital music practice in paediatric critical care during COVID-19'.  The Role of Music during COVID-19: Short-term Challenges through Technology, Wellbeing, Industry & Education. Journal of Music, Health and Wellbeing.  Hawley, Fisher, Aston, Playfor and Fairclough October 2021.pdf (storage.googleapis.com)    

Hawley, R. & Livesley, J. (2022, accepted). Live Bedside Music-Making with Children in Hospital. In M.Barret & G.F.Welch (Eds.),The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Music Learning and Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hawley, R. (2003). ‘Sound Interventions’. Seleh Notes 15 (1), pp.12–15.

Hawley, R. (2005). ‘What does a sound look like?’ Seleh Notes 12 (2), p.5.

Hawley, R. (2007). ‘Seasons of the Sun: A Music Residency at Robin House’. Jessie’s Fund Newsletter No. 27, Autumn, pp.1–2.

Hawley, R. (2013). ‘I am the Moon’. In: C. Harrison and P. Mullen, eds., Reaching out Music Education with “hard to reach” Children and Young People. London: The UK Association for Music Education, pp.162–166.

Hawley, R. (2014). ‘Transferable Skills: Enhancing the Versatility of Tomorrow’s Music Educators’. Music Mark Magazine, [online] pp.3–5. Available at: https://musicforhealth.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mm-mag-e28093-issue-4-spring-2014-upload2-rncm-article.pdf  [Accessed 24 Jul. 2019].

Hawley, R. (2018). ‘Listen to a Songbird Sing: Musicians, Creativity and the Paediatric Hospital Setting’. International Journal of Community Music, 11(1), pp.7–20.

Hawley, R., Humphries, J. and Ramachandran, S. (2019). ‘Emerging Findings from Medical and Music Student Experiences of Training with Hospital Musicians’. Musicology Research Journal, 1(6), pp.103–134. Available at: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/emerging-findings-from-medical-and-music-student-experiences-of-training-with-hospital-musicians(526223d3-24f7-48df-87e6-b89d8d3449ce).html

Livesley J, Cavanagh AJ, Charnock EM, Garrow AL, Lee AE, Long AJ. Music-making with hospitalised children’s outcomes for children, families, hospital staff and musicians from LIME Medical Notes (2) and Songbirds projects: A research report. Salford, UK: The University of Salford (2016)

Livesley, J. (2010). Children’s experiences as hospital in-patients: voice, competence and work, PhD thesis, University of Salford. Available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/26780/  

Livesley, J. and Long, T. (2013). Children’s experiences as hospital in-patients: voice, competence and work. Messages for nursing from a critical ethnographic study. International journal of Nursing Studies, [online] 50, pp.1292-1303. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020748912004336. 

MV Fisher: Sound Environments compositions: https://www.cardmedic.com/sound-environments-at-critical-care

Robinson, K. Music in Healthcare Evidence Review, Youth Music. 2017.