Dr Alex Street, Senior Research Fellow in Music Therapy, Anglia Ruskin University

Dr Alex Street is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, part of Anglia Ruskin University. He is an applied researcher who specialises in the use of music therapy for patients undergoing neurorehabilitation following stroke and brain injury. In this episode, Alex shares more about how music therapy works, including case studies of patient benefit. We also explore what led him to train as a music therapist as well as progressing his career into research, and we hear more about what it’s like to be a senior research fellow in his field and more broadly in HE.