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Hawley, R. (forthcoming, 2024). 1000 Days Project: An a/ r/ tographic inquiry of hospital music-making. In The Routledge Companion To Autoethnography and Reflexivity in Music Studies. London: Routledge.

 

Hawley, R. & Livesley, J. (2023). Live Bedside Music-Making with Children in Hospital. In M.Barret & G.F.Welch (Eds.),The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Music Learning and Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/55204 

 

Hawley, R. (2022). Musical spaces, transformative places: Ciaran’s story. PMLD Link, Spring 2022, Vol 34 no.1 issue 101, pp. 8-10. 

 

Hawley R. (2021). Music-making in a Paediatric Hospital: A Reflexive Study of Musician Practice. PhD Thesis, unpublished (SOAS, University of London).

 

Hawley R., Fisher MV., Aston, E, Fairclough S. and Playfor, S. (2021). ‘Music at times of critical isolation: pivoting hospital music practice in paediatric critical care during COVID-19’. The Role of Music during COVID-19: Short- term Challenges through Technology, Wellbeing, Industry & Education. Journal of Music, Health and Wellbeing. Hawley, Fisher, Aston, Playfor and Fairclough October 2021.pdf (storage.googleapis.com) 

 

Hawley, R., Humphries, J. and Ramachandran, S. (2019). ‘Emerging Findings from Medical and Music Student Experiences of Training with Hospital Musicians’. Musicology Research Journal, 1(6), pp.103–134.

 

Hawley, R. (2018). ‘Listen to a Songbird sing: Musicians, Creativity and the Paediatric Hospital Setting’. International Journal of Community Music, 11(1), pp.7–20. 

 

Swindells, R., Hawley, R., Fisher, M., Goldbart, J. (2015). Finding our Common Pulse. PMLD Link, Volume 27 no.3, Issue 82, pp.16-19. 

 

Hawley, R. (2014). ‘Transferable Skills: Enhancing the Versatility of Tomorrow’s Music Educators’. Music Mark Magazine, [online] pp.3–5.

 

Hawley, R. (2013). ‘I am the Moon’. In: C. Harrison and P. Mullen, eds., Reaching out Music Education with “hard to reach” Children and Young People. London: The UK Association for Music Education, pp.162–166. 

 

Hawley, R. (2007). ‘Seasons of the Sun: A Music Residency at Robin House’. Jessie’s Fund Newsletter No. 27, Autumn, pp.1–2. 

 

Hawley, R. (2005). ‘What does a sound look like?’ Seleh Notes 12 (2), p.5. Hawley, R. (2003). ‘Sound Interventions’. Seleh Notes 15 (1), pp.12–15. 

 

Commissioned Evaluation

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Youth Music: Music in Healthcare Online Network (2020 – 2023). Group Chair, facilitator of online meetings for grant holders working in hospital and healthcare settings during and after the Covid-19 pandemic; documentation of network learning in opening and closing evaluation reports. https://network.youthmusic.org.uk/online-network-music-hospitals-and-healthcare-settings

Tipp. RockUp Project Evaluations (2021 – 2023). Evaluation of musicians’ (2021) and staff development (2023), to increase the organisation’s knowledge  of training needs, engagement opportunities and development pathways for musicians and staff working with young people within the criminal justice system. Individual interviews, session observations, creative evaluation methods and reflexive evaluation. 

DIY Theatre. 4×8 Project Evaluation (2023). Evaluation of pilot project model and team development pathways for learning disabled performers. Recommendations to support the organisation’s growth and future development. Individual interviews, session observations, observation of team reflection activity led by the organisation.

City of London Sinfonia. Practical Approaches: Developing Musicians’ Responsive Practice, in “FROM BINGO TO BARTOK”: Creative and Innovative Approaches to Involving Older People with Orchestras (2019). Case study highlighting organisation’s good practice approach. Interviews with organisation staff and musicians, written article for sector dissemination.

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. MUSIC & ABILITY (2018 – 2021). Project Consultant & Evaluation design. External adviser, commissioned to help the organisation evaluate current practice model for projects with children and young people with additional needs. Providing key learning targets and recommendations, development of strategic plan for development of organisational approach and increase in musician team numbers over a 3 year period. Observation of musician sessions with learners in 3 special schools, facilitation of creative and reflective sessions for musician and educational teams, interviews with musicians, teachers, parents and senior leadership teams from participating schools. Written report, case studies, milestone evaluation, development of musician skills and competencies through programme of creative workshops and reflective sessions.

Musical Mentoring, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (2017). Programme Evaluation. External evaluator of music programme for children and young people covering 97 ward based sessions – observation of sessions, interviews with patients, families, staff and musicians, recommendations for future programme, documentation of project impact.

Music and the Deaf (MatD). The Frequalise Report (2016). Project Evaluation. External evaluator, commissioned to support the organisation’s learning from a pilot project using new music technology in music making sessions with Deaf children and young people. Observation of sessions in schools and after school projects, interviews with young people, MatD musicians and staff team, support staff and teachers of the Deaf. Written evaluation for dissemination within the sector to improve knowledge and awareness of Deaf young people making music, presentation of findings and recommendations for future programme.