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Research Group in Music and Health (MuHe)

Music and Health is a newly established interdisciplinary initiative that aims to generate and apply robust scientific evidence on the contributions of music to health and well-being. It is framed within the Knowledge and Quality of Life challenge described in the Catalunya Lidera strategy, the Government Plan of the 15th Legislature and the Draghi Report. The project seeks to achieve a dual impact: on the one hand, to drive the production of original knowledge; and on the other, to effectively contribute to improving citizens’ quality of life through digitalisation and technological innovation.

General information

Group code
Coordination	Dr. Melissa Mercadal
Field of research	Music and Health
Department	Education and Artistic Mediation

Areas of specialisation

Music therapy

Musical computing

Areas of knowledge (RD 774/2002)

Music (635)

Disciplines (UNESCO)

Personality, assessment and psychological treatments (680)

Special education; special education (580205): Music therapy

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (075)

Research team

Dr. Francisco Almazán Castro (Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol)

Dr. Enric Guaus Térmens

Dr. Perfecto Herrera Boyer

Dr. Melissa Mercadal Coll

Research Lines

Emotional well-being of musicians at different professional and life stages.

Music therapy in the medical-hospital setting.

Integration of Technology in Music Therapy Interventions.

Supervised doctoral theses

Dr. Melissa Mercadal:

Catherine Clancy Abercrombie, La sistematización de un protocolo clínico para la inclusión de la musicoterapia en la rehabilitación de niños y adultos con parálisis cerebral, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2014, cosupervised by Carme Solé and Melissa Mercadal.

María Teresa del Mora, Investigación en musicoterapia: Análisis de la situación actual en España y propuestas de mejora, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 2015, cosupervised by Melissa Mercadal and Andrés Sánchez Prada.

Patrícia Martí Augé, Efecto de la musicoterapia en el estado de ánimo y calidad de vida de los pacientes con cáncer, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2016, cosupervised by Carme Solé and Melissa Mercadal.

María Mercè Mateo Olivares, Validation of a preventive music therapy program for leaders, executives, and managers in the business field, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). In progress.

Dr. Perfecto Herrera:

Pablo Puentes Madarnás, Synthesizer instruction in music education in Catalonia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 2024, cosupervised by Perfecto Herrera Boyer and Diego Calderón Garrido.

Juan Sebastián Gómez Cañón, Human-centered machine learning for music emotion recognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 2022, cosupervised by Emilia Gómez Gutiérrez, Estefanía Cano Cerón and Perfecto Herrera Boyer.

Dr. Enric Guaus:

Adrien Faure Carvallo, Urban popular music and adolescence: Identities and sound models, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 2019, cosupervised by Josep Gustems and Enric Guaus.

Álvaro Sarasua, Relations of music performance with expressiveness and emotion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 2017, cosupervised by Emilia Gómez and Enric Guaus.