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Biography

Elaine Streeter is lead investigator for a collaborative health innovation project funded by the White Rose Consortium Health Innovation Proof of Concept fund which is supported by the universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield. She is a registered music therapist with the Health Professions Council and supervises music therapists working in London and York. She is married to Ray Beckett, the film sound recordist.

Elaine Streeter studied music composition with Edmund Rubbra and Buxton Orr at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, then trained as a music therapist with Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins in London . After completing a PGCE she started her work as a music therapist at the Child Development Centre, Charing Cross Hospital, pioneering music therapy treatment with pre-school children. In 1977 she was seconded by the ILEA to take an MA Music degree at the University of York where she studied with Professor John Paynter and Professor David Blake. Music composition studies led to a part time role as music director with Stratford East Theatre in London, whilst her music therapy dissertation on rhythm and child development led to a lectureship in music therapy at the Roehampton Institute, Surrey University. Here she devised a new post graduate training course for music therapists and for six years directed the training course and the music therapy clinic. Her musical activities at this time included playing keyboard with the Sadista Sisters rock band and forming the Last Visible Dogfree improvisation band with the singer Elise Lorraine and her brother Ross Lorraine. In 1987 Elaine entered the National Film and Television School as a composer, she went on to compose and conduct a number of film and TV scores, writing and directing short films and writing film scripts. Her music therapy training work, clinical work and supervision work continued part time and between 1989 and 2005 she held senior lecturer posts in music therapy at Anglia Ruskin University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she was a part time visiting professor for fifteen years, and latterly acting head of music therapy. She has worked as a group and individual therapist with adults, trainee therapists, children with special educational needs, adults with learning disabilities and adults in a mental health setting. She has advised on a number of international music therapy projects and is a regular presenter at international conferences. She coordinates the north east regional members group of the Association of Professional Music Therapists, is a member of the advisory council of the APMT . She is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of York.

Departmental roles

• Senior Research Fellow in Music Therapy
• Associate Lecturer (MA Community Music, Music Therapy Undergraduate Project)
• Tutor (Undergraduate Final Year Solo Project)
• Music Therapy Consultant (MSc Music Technology, MSc Electronic Engineering).

Research

Overview

• Music Therapy and Related Technology
• Music Therapy Evaluation: Investigating expert music therapy user needs, collaborating in the research and design of prototype software interfaces and function specifications for a computer aided music therapy evaluation tool: Music Therapy Interactive Logbook.

Grants

• White Rose Consortium Health Innovation Proof of Concept Award (2007)
• Music Therapy Charity Research Fellowship Award (2006)
• Churchill Fellowship (1986)

Publications

Selected publications

• Streeter, Elaine (2007). Reactions and Responses from the Music Therapy Community to the Growth of Computers and Technology - Some Preliminary Thoughts. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy
• Streeter, E. What are We Doing to Ourselves: The Branding of Music Therapy in Academia 2006 in Hadley S (Ed) Feminist Perspectives in Music Therapy Barcelona Publishers ISBN 978-10891278-38-X
• Streeter. E (2006) Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs – a Guide for Parents JKP Japanese translation. ISBN4 –902244-34-9
• Streeter. E (2002) Some Thoughts on Experiential Work with Trainees
• Streeter. E (2001) Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs – a Guide for Parents Revised Edition (Jessica Kingsley Publications) ISBN 1-85302-187-3

Compositions

• Five Women Painters (1992)
  for Channel Four and the Arts Council five part documentary series
  
• The Making of Land and Freedom (1996)
  BBC2 Documentary on film director Ken Loach
  
• Tuning In (1992)
  short produced at the National Film and Television School and broadcast on BBC2’s Screen Play First series
  
• Martha and Mary (1993)
  for a single drama commissioned by BBC2
  
• Puntilla and his Mad Man Matti Bertold Brecht (1979) for Stratford East Theatre