With some help from colleagues on Friday I found some very exciting new research, and an invaluable document for my work that has been produced by Stephen Clift, Grenville Hancox, Rosalia Staricoff and Christine Whitmore. I first met the names Clift and Hancox through research on self reported effects of singing in a choir with which they were working, see my post Oct 21st 2008. That research was reported in 2001, and the Sidney de Haan Centre was formed at Canterbury Christchurch University in England in 2004. Named after a man who received great personal enjoyment and benefit from music during his latter life, while suffering with vascular dementia. Sidney's son Roger supported Professors Hancox and Clift to set up the new research centre.
The document is entitled Singing and Health: Summary of a systematic Mapping and Review of Non-Clinical Research and can be found at:
Singing and Health Document
Go to this site and download the pdf document.
At the same site you will find another document that will interest singers:
Choral Singing, Wellbeing and Health: A cross-national survey
Thank you to these men, and their colleagues, and the passion that they have had for singing and its benefits!!
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