Professor Leslie Bunt

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Role:

Emeritus Professor in Music Therapy

Department staff:

School of Health and Social Wellbeing

Collaborations:

International collaborations continue with plans to submit a protocol for a new edited publication.

Research staff:

Teaching staff:

Music therapy receptive approaches.

Qualifications:MBE, BA (Bristol), PGCE (Exeter), LGSM(MT), PhD (City), FAMI, FRSA
Position:Emeritus Professor in Music Therapy
Department:School of Health and Social Wellbeing
Telephone:+4411732 88220
Email:Leslie.Bunt@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Leslie's first degree was in music (Bristol, 1973) and after his PGCE (Exeter, 1974) and a period of teaching he studied music therapy with Juliette Alvin, a leader in the field, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London in 1976. He began teaching at the Guildhall in 1980 and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Guildhall School. Leslie has worked as a music therapist with children and adults across the lifespan and with wide-ranging healthcare needs. He was awarded the first PhD in music therapy (City) in 1985 for his outcome-based studies with children. Leslie set-up the first part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Music Therapy at the University of Bristol in 1992. This evolved into a MA in 2006 when the course was transferred to UWE. Leslie is Founding Director of the community-based music therapy charity The MusicSpace Trust, launched in 1991. From 1995-99 Leslie studied Guided Imagery in Music (GIM) with Dr Kenneth Bruscia. In 2009 Leslie was awarded an MBE for his services to music therapy. His position as Professor in Music Therapy was the first to be awarded within a UK university. His publications include books published by Routledge: Music Therapy: an art beyond words (1994), with a second edition written with Brynjulf Stige (2014) and The Handook of Music Therapy, edited with Sarah Hoskyns (2002), with a second edition co-edited with Sarah Hoskyns and Sangeeta Swamy published in February 2024. In addition to his work as music therapist, supervisor, trainer and researcher Leslie is also a freelance conductor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians (for more information about me see www.lesliebunt.com).

Area of expertise

Leslie is currently Emeritus Professor in Music Therapy. Before moving away from UWE in September 2020 he was project coordinator of an EU-funded project (ERASMUS+) working with colleagues in four European countries (Estonia, Italy, Norway and Portugal), in addition to those in the UK, to support more use of music and the arts with children and young people. Leslie is a practitioner, supervisor and trainer in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM).

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