Recover with Music
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Funding: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UCL Impact Acceleration Grant
Recover with music was an ESRC-funded project designed to help female adolescent students overcome the lingering psychological effects from experiencing the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, in 2018. Due to the positive results obtained in fostering resilience, the intervention was awarded the UCL Impact Acceleration Grant to explore its potential for globalisation and the feasibility of being implemented in other crisis contexts. For this purpose, in 2024, we teamed with risk communication agency Pacifico, as well as with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to train teachers in different countries on how to conduct the intervention with the young refugees and forcibly displaced youth they work with. So far, Recover with Music has been implemented by local teachers and community facilitators in Jordan, Chad, El Salvador and Ecuador.
I am currently looking for further partnerships with institutions and organisations to widen the impact of the intervention! For more information about Recover with Music and how to implement it, visit www.recoverwithmusic.org