Episode 2: Building Singing for Health Training & Peer Support with Jo Miller and Anne Gallacher

Show Notes

On Season 3, Episode 1, we welcome Dr Jo Miller, coordinator of the Trad Arts Mentoring programme for Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, and Anne Gallacher, Director of Luminate – Scotland’s Creative Ageing organisation, who discussed the recent evaluation of Luminate’s peer support pilot.

The show is presented, produced, and edited by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland and Sophie Boyd, who co-run the Network.

Below, we have provided links to resources mentioned on the episode.

More details about the Network

Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/

Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk

X (formally Twitter): @ScotSingHealth

Key links

Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland: https://tracscotland.org/

Luminate – Scotland’s Creative Ageing organisation: https://luminatescotland.org/

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Luminate Peer learning for conductors and singing leaders: https://luminatescotland.org/project/peer-learning-for-conductors-and-singing-leaders/

Luminate Artist Support Programme: https://luminatescotland.org/project/artist-support-programme/

TRACS Trad Arts Mentoring: https://tracscotland.org/tradartsmentoring/

Dementia Inclusive Singing Network: https://singing.luminatescotland.org/

Scottish Mentoring Network: https://scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk/

SNP Wellbeing Economy: https://www.gov.scot/groups/wellbeing-economy-governments-wego/

Music featured in the episode:

Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License)

Outro music: Doon in the Wee Room with words rewritten by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang in 2019, inspired by an original Glaswegian folk song by Daniel McLaughlin. The group shaped this song around their experiences of singing for breathing as part of Sophie Boyd’s PhD research. Rec