PARTNERS: UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND* (UK)

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Professor Phil Ellis is the overall co-ordinator of the CARESS project and supervisor of its activities at Sunderland. He is professor in Music in the School of Arts, Design and Media at the University of Sunderland. He developed the Sound Therapy methodology through his work with special needs children, since 1994, and he serves as co-chair of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Commission on Special Needs, Music Therapy and Music Medicine. He is introducing and evaluating the new technology at the Special Needs school in Stratford-upon-Avon and supervising the trials of the Soundbeam and the new technology at the mainstream school in Henley-in-Arden. Together with Lisa Percy, he is also responsible for developing curriculum materials resulting from the CARESS research.

Lisa Percy is a qualified teacher and has taught for a number of years in primary schools. In collaboration with Phil Ellis, her role in the project is to develop learning materials in both the mainstream and Special Needs schools. She is also involved in the development of video materials from the school-based research. Drawing on her skills as a curriculum arts specialist, Lisa is devising and leading sessions in both project schools, focusing on introducing the arts across the curriculum.

For further information, take a look at the web-site for the School of Arts, Design and Media at the University of Sunderland.
^* The Sunderland partners were formerly based at the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick.

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