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An Update: Emily Cooper

 AN UPDATE

Hello everyone! Emily here with an update about my PhD journey!

The past few months have been very busy! In January I went part time for my PhD as I have also taken up a job working at Sheffield Cathedral as their Music and Liturgy Administrator. This has been a great decision as I now have more time and flexibility to complete all the research projects I want to conduct.

In June I submitted my 'Relax, Breathe and Sing' paper to the Music and Science SAGE peer-reviewed journal, co-authored with my supervisor, Prof Renee Timmers, Mir Jansen and Helen Lyle - I'm hoping this will be approved soon! I will update on this blog when that happens. This was a fantastic project involving people with Chronic Health Conditions who have experience of breathlessness.

In the meantime, if you want to read up on some work I already have published, you can read this paper I published last year which is a shortened version of my Masters Dissertation: 

So, what else have I been up to in the last year? I have done a project with The Choir with No Name which is a wonderful charity who run choirs for people affected by homelessness in the UK. They have choirs in London, Brighton, Cardiff, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry and as of January 2025, Sheffield!! During the project I helped with the beginnings of the choir in Sheffield, volunteering in welcoming members, cooking meals, supporting gigs, writing funding grants and I now sit as a member on their Fundraising Committee. They have been amazing to work with. In March 2025 I completed the Camino de Santiago, a 115km walk from Sarria to Santiago in Northern Spain to raise money for the Choir with No Name. In total we raised over £20,000 for the charity. This was a life changing experience and I would highly recommend walking the Camino to anyone! See some photos below...

  
  

If you want to follow along with what I am up to, you can follow my PhD Instagram account @study_and_sing or the group network account @singing_in_balance




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