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Wednesday 12 June 2024
CURRENT PROJECT - concluding April 2025
CHIME (Community Health Intervention through Music Engagement) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative project working to investigate how music can be used to support perinatal mental health in Africa and Australia. Mental health problems during and after pregnancy remain a serious women’s health issue with consequences not only for the affected mother, but also for her child, family and community. CHIME employs a culturally-grounded, gender sensitive approach to understand existing associations between pregnancy, motherhood, and musical practices, and to develop locally meaningful strategies to support women during the perinatal period.
CHIME Australia
This project, funded by the ANU Gender Institute, is exploring the way CHIME can be adapted in the Australian context to support the perinatal mental health of women from migrant and refugee backgrounds.
Project Team:
ANU researchers: Bonnie McConnell, Georgia Pike-Rowney, Amelia Gulliver, Lillian Smyth, Liana Leach, Mike Roettger, Junwen Chen
External Collaborators:
Charulatha Mani, University of Tasmania
Mimmie Ngum Chi Watts, Federation University
Lauren Stewart, Goldsmiths University of London
Katie Rose Sanfilippo, City, University of London
Outputs/publications:
Co-designed music program to support perinatal wellbeing of migrant and refugee women. The program will run in partnership with the Community Music Centre.
