Leadership and Management of Clinical Trials in Creative Arts Therapy

"Everyone involved in clinical trials should read this brilliant much needed book. Through vivid examples, Felicity leads the reader through the highs and lows of delivering a trial, with solutions, and detailed reflections learned from practice. This will appeal to all, across the medical, health, creative and social fields."

-Professor Helen Odell-Miller OBE Anglia Ruskin University

"Felicity Baker offers a detailed account of "how to" implement robust large-scale fully-powered clinical trials that meet the rigor required by funding bodies, high impact journals, and policy makers. This timely book is an asset for novice and advanced researchers alike, across all health professions."

-Professor Hod Orkibi, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel.

"This book offers a guide for creative arts therapists to navigate the world of high quality, multi-disciplinary and world-leading research. Felicity's in-depth understanding of conducting clinical trials will act as a beacon of good practice for any health professional interested in conducting outcome studies in their discipline."

-Professor Vicky Karkou, Edge Hill University, UK

Rarely do creative arts therapy researchers receive adequate training to implement large policy-changing clinical trials. Leadership and Management of Clinical Trials in Creative Arts Therapy, addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive guide to successful trial implementation. Chapters guide researchers through key activities including project management, governance consideration, assembling a research team, budget and data planning and monitoring, and participant recruitment. Later chapters focus on the development of a knowledge translation and exchange plan, and commercialisation of intellectual property. Professor Felicity Anne Baker is Associate Dean (Research), University of Melbourne, and Professor II, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo. Over 30 years, shehas amassed AUS$15+Million to fund several interdisciplinary clinical trials. She is a former Australia Research Council Future Fellow and has won numerous international awards for her music therapy research.

Auteur

Professor Felicity Anne Baker is Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, as well as Director of International Research Partnerships for the Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit, University of Melbourne. She also holds a position as Professor II at the Norwegian Academy of Music and is currently Associate Editor, Journal of Music Therapy. Felicity has thirty years of experience as a music therapy clinician and twenty years as a researcher. Over her career, she has accumulated more than AUS$15Million in funding to support implementation of several interdisciplinary clinical trials including three National Health and Medical Research Council Grants and a Medical Research Future Fund grant. She is a former Australia Research Council Future Fellow and has won numerous international awards for her research. She is widely published, and her work is highly cited. Felicity is well known for her research in neurorehabilitation, dementia care, and in developing the music therapy method of songwriting. Aside from this latest book, she has published 5 books and more than 170 book chapters and journal articles including publications in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Contemporary Clinical Trials Communication, and Clinical Rehabilitation.