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The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic had a strong impact on undergraduate students’academic life. The pandemic crisis created an unprecedented condition that causedadditional challenges to students’ wellbeing. In response to the increased needs of students’and the wider community of the university during the crisis, the authors, in their capacity aslecturers at the Department of Music Studies, took the initiative to organize a series ofonline group music workshops. Inspired by the conceptualisation of a whole universityapproach (Dooris et al. 2020), the music workshops were addressed not only tounderground students but also to the postgraduates and all members of staff. In thispresentation, the authors present how the salutogenic theory of A. Antonovsky andparticularly the model of the Sense of Coherence were used as a guide to promote thewellbeing of the university students through music.
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Christiana Adamopoulou
(Specialised Educational Staff at the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) studied music at Ionian University, (Corfu, Greece) and music therapy at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK). She obtained her PhD in music therapy from Ionian University. Christiana has twenty years’ experience in teaching music both in mainstream and special needs schools. As a practicing music therapist, she has worked primarily with children in the autistic spectrum and with children and adults with learning disabilities. Her research interests cover a wide range of subjects, including music therapy with young adults, music therapy and special education, adult learning, and community music. She is also trained in group psychotherapy.
Christina Anagnostopoulou
is an associate professor at the Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the director of the Cognition, Computation and Community Music Lab at the same institution. She has previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Queen's Belfast. Her research interests include computational and cognitive musicology, music informatics, music psychology and community music.
