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The first six months of the project involved applying for Ethics approval, meeting with venue contacts and discussing
the project, and convening the Steering Committee for the first time. During this time Research Quality Approval was
granted by the Ministry of Justice and Research Ethics Approval from the National Offender Management Service and
the University of the West of England Research Ethics Committee. The MoJ required some adaptation of the
quantitative element of the research design to address issues of reliability and generalisability, essentially by removing
comparison sites given numbers were not sufficient to make reliable comparisons across sites. Two extra programmes
of music intervention were subsequently added to replace the comparison sites. Fuller details are provided below.
During this first six months, meetings were held with stakeholders and gatekeepers in all project sites to discuss the
processes involved in running the music programmes and conducting the research. Detailed correspondence is ongoing
with the first three venues, the YOIs, regarding security and scheduling, as these will be the first sites involved in the
project.
An inaugural Steering Committee meeting was held on the 26 th May. The Committee is composed of a variety of people
who work within the Youth Justice sector, both from a managerial and hands-on perspective. In particular, the meeting
focused on the changes to the research design and the length of the music programmes, which were shortened on the
advice of the Committee who felt that it would be unrealistic to recruit a group of participants consistently for nine
weeks due to short sentences.
A full time Research Associate (two year contract) has been recruited to the project to undertake the bulk of the
fieldwork and analysis, employed by UWE to work from closely with the research and LMN teams.
The Project Management structure is summarised below:
UWE Research Team LMN Programme Team Project Steering Group
Dr Nick de Viggiani
(Principal Investigator)
Patsy Lang
(LMN Project Manager)
Prof. Norma Daykin
Project Administrator
(Arts & Health specialist)
Dr Paul Pilkington
Finance Support
(quantitative research
specialist)
Yvonne Moriarty
(Research Associate)
Administrative Support
(UWE generic provision)
Musicians
Production Assistant
Ali Smith
(LMN SW Director)
Professor Rod Morgan
(former Chair of Youth Justice
Board and former Chief Inspector
of Police & Probation)
Caroline Thompson
(HoLS, HMP Eastwood Park)
Andres Sierra
(Musician and Trainer LMN)
Chris Syrus
(Writer, Ex-Offender, Events
Manager: ‘Foundation 4 Life’)
Pauline Kinton
(YJB Regional Representative)
Tom Isom
(YOT diversionary activity
worker)
Vic Pomeroy
(Retired Education Manager,
HMP The Verne)
MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OUTCOMES
The LMN music programme aims to improve health and wellbeing, and sense of identity. Music is a process which
bonds people, increases interaction, allows for self expression, alleviates stress, increases confidence and allows for a
means of self-expression when other methods are perceived not to work. All these things contribute to the potential
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