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

 

Konferanseforedrag

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

Kapittel i fagbok

• Simon Gilbertson (2023). Transversality and Music Therapy Education. (ekstern lenke)
• Simon Gilbertson (2022). Undefining Music Therapist. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

• Simon Gilbertson; Jane Edwards (2015). Exploring Resistance and Change in Music Therapy Learning for Students and Educators. (ekstern lenke)
• Simon Gilbertson (2013). Adults with Stroke. (ekstern lenke)
• 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. (ekstern lenke)
• Simon Gilbertson (2016). Music therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury. (ekstern lenke)
• Simon Gilbertson (2024). The Shadows of Bright Pink: An Unexpected Moment, Transversality, and Narrative Inquiry. (ekstern lenke)

Forelesning

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

Vitenskapelig artikkel

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

Bevegelig bilde / film

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

Tidsskriftomtale

• Simon Gilbertson (2011). Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development. (ekstern lenke)
• 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. (ekstern lenke)
• Simon Gilbertson (2013). Music therapy in principle and practice. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig monografi

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

Fagartikkel

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

Antologi

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

Leksikon

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

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i 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)