Music and the nervous system, central, peripheral and social

Multi-modal sensory and cognitive processes in communication

Interdisciplinary communication and interaction

Improvisation and meaning

Music therapy and neurorehabilitation

Since joining UiB in 2010 I have taught in the following courses:

MUF101 Music, culture and society

MUTP101 Introduction to music therapy

MUTP104 Musicking

MUTP111 Music and Brain

MUTP203 Music making in music therapy groups

MUTP205 Introduction to music therapy practice

MUTP302 Improvisation in music therapy

MUTP303 Music therapy profession

MUTP305 Music therapy in medical contexts

MUTP312 Music therapy research methods

MUTP350 Master thesis supervision

Guest lecturer:

ELMED230 Brain and Music

VIT210 Mennesket: Natur og kultur

Conference lecture

• Simon Gilbertson (2025). Keynote presentation: The inseparable human: bærekraft, teknologi og musikkterapi. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Michael Viega; Triona McCaffrey et al. (2017). Critically evolving: Current trends in arts-based research in music therapy. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2022). Severe traumatic social brain injury and music therapy. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2017). Researching the music therapy process: Matter, making and methods. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2018). A quantum analysis of improvised song creation. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Sergej Tchirkov (2022). Co-creativity in music therapy and performance. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2016). Clinical application of music therapy in neurorehabilitation. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2017). Music. Matter. Making: Toward a music therapy beyond the human.. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2015). Music therapy, matter and embodied practice in medical education. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Hiroko Miyake; Rika Ikuno-Yamamoto et al. (2017). Knowing/Communicating the clinical process of music therapy practice: Illustrative Approaches. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2018). The In Visible Society: Devices of acknowledging visible and invisible practices of sounding. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2017). In audible movements: on the edges of perception and beyond.. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2013). Keynote presentation: Navigation and Sounding: Fundamental modes of being: sensing creative music practices. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2016). Inscription devising and the in/separability of musical materials. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Rika Ikuno; Hiroko Miyake et al. (2021). How can we nurture the “seeds of research” we encounter in the clinical field: Report and discussion from the dialogue group for studying musical- clinical- practices. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Ronald Kibirige (2021). Micro-interactions in creative practices as social and cultural regeneration: Interdisciplinary approaches from early neurological rehabilitation and post-war reconciliation. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2017). Just for the record: Quantum anarchy plus colonial inscription in arts focused research.. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2018). A quantum analysis of an improvised song in music therapy. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2018). In/separability and Music: A quantum narrative of learning and teaching. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2018). Improvised songs in clinical settings: An illustration-supported recall method. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Claire Todd (2015). Intra-Weaving: Meeting through the motions of making. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Jörg Fachner; Wolfgang Schmid et al. (2012). Imaging and sensing - Convergence of basic and applied research and practice with music, music therapy and the brain. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2016). Unruly multiplicity: Interdisciplinary rehabilitation and the undisciplined nature of human illness and care. (external link)
• Simen Krogstie Lagesen; Geir Olve Skeie; Karsten Specht et al. (2013). Musikk, terapi og nevrologiske sykdommer. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2020). ‘Staying in alignment in times of trouble’: A case example of adopting digital education and assessment in music therapy. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Simon Gilbertson (2023). Transversality and Music Therapy Education. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2022). Undefining Music Therapist. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Simon Gilbertson; Jane Edwards (2015). Exploring Resistance and Change in Music Therapy Learning for Students and Educators. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2013). Adults with Stroke. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2015). In the light of day: A real-world perspective on childhood severe traumatic brain injury and music therapy during early neurosurgical rehabilitation. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2016). Music therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2024). The Shadows of Bright Pink: An Unexpected Moment, Transversality, and Narrative Inquiry. (external link)

Lecture

• Simon Gilbertson; Signe Bakke; Grete Ege (2022). Music of the Body. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2022). Music therapy in neurological rehabilitation. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2015). Musikkterapi og afasi (Music therapy and aphasia). (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Grete Furuseth Ege; Signe Bakke (2022). Music of the Body. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Hagit Yakira (2019). A Dialogical Creative Practice Immersion: Co-constitution and Inseparability. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2019). Horizontal and Vertical Research development. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2019). Materializing Care: An introduction. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2022). Music therapy in early neurosurgical rehabilitation. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Lars Ole Bonde; Joke Bradt et al. (2013). The art of scientific writing: Preparing manuscripts for journal submission and surviving the peer review process. (external link)
• Andreas Bergsland; Elin Angelo; Nora Bilalovic Kulset et al. (2018). Challenges and possibilities for musical knowledge transmission, learning and education between music disciplines. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2019). Music therapy and Aphasia. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Brian Abrams; Cochavit Elefant et al. (2014). The art of scientific writing: Preparing manuscripts and surviving peer review. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Viggo Krüger; Maren Metell et al. (2024). GAMUT Roundtable. (external link)

Academic article

• Simon Gilbertson (2008). The silent epidemic of road traffic injury: What can music therapists do about it?. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2019). Imagining Something Else: A Queer Essay. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2009). A reference standard bibliography: Music therapy with children who have experienced traumatic brain injury. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2013). Improvisation and meaning. (external link)
• Eirik Aurlund Sæle; Simon Gilbertson (2024). Ethical reflections on social media use within music therapy: A conversational focus group study. (external link)
• Monika Kvernenes; Arne Tjølsen; Simon Gilbertson et al. (2025). Tracing affective trajectories and triggers in university teachers – a mixed methods study. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; David Gabriel Hebert (2021). Music in a Concussive Monologue. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2015). In visible hands: The matter and making of music therapy. (external link)
• Karin Mössler; Simon Gilbertson; Viggo Krüger et al. (2013). Converging reflections on music therapy with children and adolescents: A collaborative seminar on diverse areas of music therapy practice and research. (external link)

Moving image/film

• Simon Gilbertson (2021). Steps towards self-criticality: On access, inclusion and the inevitability of exclusion. (external link)

Journal review

• Simon Gilbertson (2011). Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2012). Music therapy education and training: from theory to practice, by Karen D. Goodman. Springfield: Charles C Thomas Publisher, 2011, 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0398-08609-1. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson (2013). Music therapy in principle and practice. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Simon Gilbertson; David Aldridge (2008). Music therapy and traumatic brain injury: A light on a dark night. (external link)

Professional article

• Simon Gilbertson; Jane Edwards; Alison Ledger (2013). Exploring potentials for the use of music and music therapy in antenatal care: A review and discussion. (external link)

Book anthology

• Karen Goodman; Simon Gilbertson (2015). International perspectives in music therapy education and training: Adapting to a changing world. (external link)

Encyclopedia

• Joy Allen; Simon Gilbertson (2013). Guidelines for Music Therapy Practice in Adult Medical Care. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Book: Gilbertson, S. & Aldridge, D. (2008). Music therapy and traumatic brain injury: A light on a dark night. London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

In Visible Hands: An arts-based research project investigating the meaning given to embodiment in music therapy practice using sculpture and qualitative analysis of therapist's narratives on the use and meaning of their hands in music therapy.

In Audible Movements: A multidisciplinary collaborative research project investigating interrelations between physical movement and musical structures in multidisciplinary music improvisation. Study uses multiple high definition cameras and Noldus Observer XT data capture and analysis software.

Music therapy implementation in medical contexts: An international collaboration between Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (GAMUT) and Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME)

Interdisciplinary education and training in primary health care (TVEPS and TVEPS Research)