Sarah Hoskyns

Associate Professor – Music Therapy
Director of Music Therapy Programme

BA(Hons) Birm, LGSM(MT), London, FGSM, ARCM, State Registered Arts Therapist (Music) (HPC, UK)

Sarah Hoskyns has been director of the two year Master of Music Therapy Programme at NZSM since February 2005, teaching principles of music therapy, supervising clinical practice and second year masters research projects in music therapy.

She is an experienced clinician, teacher and researcher in music therapy and was previously Head of the Music Therapy Dept at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (1991-2005) and Research Fellow in Music Therapy at City University, London (1985-88). As a clinician, Sarah has worked with adults in the probation service, with elderly patients in the community, in adult learning disability, in neurodisability and with young children with wide ranging special needs (including complex communication difficulties and multiple handicaps) and their families. She is joint author and editor (with Professor Leslie Bunt) of The Handbook of Music Therapy published in 2002 by Brunner-Routledge.

Doctoral research, begun in Britain and to be completed in New Zealand, has focussed on music therapy group work with adult offending clients. A review of music therapy research methodology as appropriate to the developing profession in New Zealand will form part of this project. Other research experience includes projects in neurodisability (short term group music therapy with patients with Huntington’s Disease) and on co-mentoring in music therapy teaching.

Sarah has had close links with the music therapy professional bodies in the UK: she is a former editor of the British Journal of Music Therapy, a Registered Clinical Supervisor and an Advisory Council member of the Association of Professional Music Therapists (UK).

Contact details
phone: +64 4 801 5799 ext 6410
room: 1D11, Mt Cook Campus
Email: sarah.hoskyns@nzsm.ac.nz

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