Birch, Catherine

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Birch, Catherine

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c.birch@yorksj.ac.uk

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Music

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York St John University

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Lord Mayor's Walk York YO31 7EX

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Senior Lecturer

Biography:

Catherine Birch is a Senior Lecturer in Community Music at York St John University, UK. As a regular practitioner for the York St John Prison Partnership Project, she facilitates weekly singing and song-writing sessions. Catherine works primarily as a vocal leader and has worked with all ages across the education sector as well as in community settings. Catherine is currently a PhD researcher through the International Centre for Community Music, supervised by Professor Lee Higgins, exploring how working in a trauma-informed way, particularly using the voice in singing and song writing, can be impactful as a tool in trauma recovery.

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Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2024) Hidden Voices: Journeying towards trauma-informed practices in community music. Doctoral thesis, York St John University.
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2020) The Power of Connection: An Exploration of Trauma-Informed Community Music Practice. In: ISME CMA, July 2020, Online. (Submitted)
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2021) Emerging Voices: Working with Women in the UK Criminal Justice System. In: de Bánffy-Hall, Alicia and Eberhard, Daniel, (eds.) Musik im Strafvollzug. Perspektiven aus Forschung und Praxis. Waxmann - Münster New York, pp. 121-135
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2023) The Use of Trauma-Informed Community Music Practice in Enabling Narrative Through Song Writing. In: Griffin, Shelley and Niknafs, Nasim, (eds.) Traumas Resisted and (Re)Engaged: Inquiring into Lost and Found Narratives in Music Education. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (36). Springer, pp. 181-201
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2020) BOOK REVIEW The development of community music in Munich, by Alicia de Bánffy-Hall, Münster, Waxmann, 2019, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-8309-4018-0. ISME online website.
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334, Currie, Ruth, Dawson, Wayne and Clift, Stephen (2024) Songs of diversity: three case studies of community singing, identity and well-being. In: Morgan-Ellis, Esther and Norton, Kay, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing. Oxford University Press, pp. 330-350
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2019) Ethno Denmark : Building Bridges and Making Connections: Personal Encounters at Ethno Denmark, 2019. Project Report. York St John University, York.
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2022) Hidden Voices; toward a trauma-informed framework of community music practice. International Journal of Community Music, 15 (1). pp. 143-164.
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2020) Emerging Voices: Working with women in the UK criminal justice system. Transform: New Voices in Community Music (2). pp. 15-38.
Birch, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1944-7334 (2021) Voices from the Inside: Working with the Hidden Trauma Narratives of Women in Custody. In: Bradley, D. and Jess, J., (eds.) Trauma and Resilience in Music Education: Haunted Melodies. Routledge

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#	Item title
1	Emerging Voices: Working with women in the UK criminal justice system	120	76
2	The Power of Connection: An Exploration of Trauma-Informed Community Music Practice	102	93
3	Songs of diversity: three case studies of community singing, identity and well-being	96	2
4	Hidden Voices; toward a trauma-informed framework of community music practice	95	150
5	Qui sarai sempre il benvenuto	71	21
6	The Use of Trauma-Informed Community Music Practice in Enabling Narrative Through Song Writing	57	3
7	Ethno Denmark : Building Bridges and Making Connections: Personal Encounters at Ethno Denmark, 2019	50	38
8	Voices from the Inside: Working with the Hidden Trauma Narratives of Women in Custody	39	87
9	Emerging Voices: Working with Women in the UK Criminal Justice System	30	11
10	BOOK REVIEW The development of community music in Munich, by Alicia de Bánffy-Hall, Münster, Waxmann, 2019, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-8309-4018-0	29	1