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PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

BOOKS

Sprio, N. & Sanfilippo, K.R.M. (In Prep). Collaborative Insights: Interdisciplinary perspectives on musical care throughout the life course. Oxford University Press.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Stewart, L. & Glover, V. (2021) How music may support perinatal mental health: an overview. Archives Women’s Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-021-01178-5

Sanfilippo K.R.M, McConnell B, Cornelius V., Darboe, B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Glover, V., & Stewart., L. (2020) Community psychosocial music intervention (CHIME) to reduce antenatal common mental disorder symptoms in The Gambia: a feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 10(11), e040287. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040287


Sanfilippo K.R.M., Spiro N, Molina-Solana M, Lamont A (2020) Do the shuffle: Exploring reasons for music listening through shuffled play. PLoS ONE 15(2), e0228457.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228457


Sanfilippo K.R.M, McConnell B, Cornelius V., Darboe, B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Glover, V., & Stewart., L. (2019). A study protocol for testing the feasibility of a randomised stepped wedge cluster design to investigate a Community Health Intervention through Musical Engagement (CHIME) for perinatal mental health in The Gambia. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 5, 124. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0515-5


Dingle, G.A., Clift, S., Finn, S., Gilbert, R., Groarke, J.M., Irons, J.Y., Bartoli, A. J., Lamont, A., Launay, J., Martin, E.S., Moss, H., Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Shipton, M., Stewart, L., Talbot, S., Tarrant, M., Tip, L., & Williams, E.J. (2019). An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being. Music & Science, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204319861719


Anglada-Tort, M., & Sanfilippo, K.R.M. (2019). Visualizing Music Psychology: A Bibliometric Analysis of Psychology of Music, Music Perception, and Musicae Scientiae from 1973 to 2017. Music & Science, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204318811786


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., & Spiro, N. (2016). Conference report: “The Third Nordoff Robbins Plus Conference ‘Exploring music in therapeutic and community settings’”. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, 9(1), 159-163

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Cornelius, V., McConnell, B., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Ceesay, H., Darboe, B., Huma, Hajara B., Gaye, M., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2019, October 6–9). Testing the feasibility of a complex intervention for perinatal mental health in The Gambia [Conference poster presentation]. 5th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC 2019), Brighton, UK. Paper presented in Trials 20, 579. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3688-6

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Sanfilippo K.R.M, McConnell B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M., Darboe, B., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Cornelius V., Glover, V., & Stewart., L. (2020).

Maternal music in The Gambia: Understanding music’s role in maternal mental health [Panel presentation on music psychology at Goldsmiths, UoL]. Royal Musical Association Conference, London, UK


Sanfilippo K.R.M, McConnell B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M., Darboe, B., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Cornelius V., Glover, V., & Stewart., L. (2020). Developing a community-led music intervention to support antenatal mental health in The Gambia [Panel presentation on maternal mental health in low resource settings]. International MARCE society for Perinatal Mental Health, Iowa, US


Sanfilippo K.R.M, McConnell B, Cornelius V., Darboe, B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Glover, V., & Stewart., L. (2019, September). Music for perinatal mental health in The Gambia: Testing the feasibility of a group-singing intervention [Conference presentation]. UK MARCE meeting, London, UK.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Cornelius, V., Ceesay, H., Darboe, B., Huma, Hajara B., Gaye, M., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2019, March). Understanding musics role in maternal mental Health in The Gambia [Conference presentation]. SEMPRE graduate conference, Cambridge, UK.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Cornelius, V., Ceesay, H., Darboe, B., Huma, Hajara B., Gaye, M., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2018, December). Understanding maternal mental health in The Gambia [Conference presentation]. UK MARCE meeting, London, UK.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Lennon, A., Parsons, C., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2018,

December). Perceptions in Pregnancy: An investigation of emotional vocalizations during the perinatal period [Conference poster presentation] UK MARCE meeting, London, UK.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Cornelius, V., Ceesay, H., Darboe, B., Huma, Hajara B., Gaye, M., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2018, September). Measuring Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in The Gambia [Conference poster presentation]. Maternal Mental Health Conference: Diversity – understanding and reaching the missing families, London, UK.


Wang, L, -C., Spiro, N., Coggins, O., & Sanfilippo , K.R.M. (2018, August) What is missing in the literature on music therapy and education? [Conference presentation]. Nordic Music Therapy Congress, KMH Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden.


Anglada-Tort, M. & Sanfilippo, K.R.M. (2018, July). Visualizing music psychology: Who, what, when, and where? [Conference poster presentation]. The 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition combined with the 10th triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Graz, Belgium.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Lennon, A., Parsons, C., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2018, July). Perceptions in Pregnancy: An investigation of women's perceptions of emotional vocalisations and musical excerpts during the perinatal period [Conference presentation]. The 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition combined with the 10th triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Graz, Belgium.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2018, June). Maternal Moments: Investigating an app based music listening intervention for well-being in pregnancy [Conference poster presentation]. Musics, Selves and Societies: The roles of music in effecting change, Cambridge, UK.


McConnell, B., Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Cornelius, V., Ceesay, H., Darboe, B., Huma, Hajara B., Gaye, M., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2018, June). Developing a community singing based intervention for perinatal mental health in The Gambia [Conference poster presentation]. Musics, Selves and Societies: The roles of music in effecting change, Cambridge, UK.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Lennon, A., Parsons, C., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2018, June). Perceptions in pregnancy: An investigation of emotional vocalizations during the perinatal period [Conference poster presentation]. MARCE Global Conference, Bangalore, India.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Pearce, E., Stewart, L., & Launay, J. (2016, June). Creating together: Improvisation in music can enhance social bonding [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), San Francisco, CA.


Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Pearce, E., Stewart, L., & Launay, J. (2015, September). Creating together: How improvisation in music affects social bonding [Conference presentation]. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus), Leipzig.

INVITED LECTURES

Keynote for ICMPC/ESCOM, Sheffield, UK

Testing a community-led music intervention to support antenatal mental health in The Gambia, 2021

Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

Community based singing for maternal mental health in The Gambia: Developing and trialling an intervention, 2020


Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge, UK

Community based singing for mental health during pregnancy: An interdisciplinary project based in The Gambia, 2019


Music in Human and Social Development Research Group Workshop Series: The Diverse Musical Brain, Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK

Maternal music in The Gambia: Understanding music’s role in maternal mental health, 2019


Imperial Clinical Trials Unit, London, UK

Testing the feasibility of a complex intervention for perinatal mental health in The Gambia, 2019


Office of Health Economics, London, UK

Investigating the cost effectiveness of a community-based music intervention for maternal mental health in The Gambia, 2019


Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy charity, London, UK

Maternal music in The Gambia, 2018

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