Call for Research Participants

Are you a professional musician and do you engage heavily with social media and social networking sites? Tom Wegg-Prosser, final year MSc student in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths University is looking for solo artists, lead singers, dance and electronic acts to take part in a qualitative research study. It’ll look at the experience of professional musicians engaged with social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Soundcloud and YouTube.

Participants would ideally have a rich relationship with these sites, actively engaging and posting regularly. Interviews will be recorded taking 45 minutes to an hour and ideally be face to face, although there is a possibility for phone or Skype interviews.

The study will add to the body of research around musicians’ mental health. MSc student Tom Wegg-Prosser who’s conducting the survey says: “Anecdotal evidence in media is that more and more musicians can have positive and negative relationships with social networking and social media sites.  Some studies have highlighted this is at times a problematic relationship.”

The Interview is intended to be exploratory, open and only semi structured. It will be a broad conversation about the musicians’ experience of this subject.