Music and Parental Wellbeing Alliance

We are delighted to welcome you to the Music and Parental Wellbeing Alliance. The Alliance has grown out of the Music and Parental Wellbeing Network (2023-2025) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and hosted by the Royal College of Music London and City St George’s, University of London. The Alliance is the first of its kind to foster novel, international, and inter-disciplinary collaborations to explore the role of music in supporting parental wellbeing.

Please watch our video below and find our vision and mission set out in our freely-available position paper in Music & Science.

Please choose your preferred language using the button in the language menu (bottom left) and we very much hope you enjoy your visit to our site.*

If you have found yourself here and are a parent needing wellbeing support, we hope you find these external links helpful: for UK support organisations, please click HERE. For international support organisations, please click HERE.

*Please note that when we use the words “parent” or “parental” we always mean those with responsiblity for caring for children. This includes, for example, biological parents, adopters, foster carers, kinship carers, single parents, same-sex couples, and others. Where individual research publications or examples of practice refer to a particular group of parents, for example, mothers, we use these terms. As always, language and terminology are developing rapidly and we aim to be as inclusive as possible.