Publications

Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991 (2026). Sonic Lives. In: Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991, Shaughnessy, N. & Williams, E. (Eds.), Beyond Autistic Stereotypes: New Perspectives on Identities, Gender and Experience. . Oxford University Press.

Duara, R., Pavlopoulou, G., Hugh-Jones, S. , Shaughnessy, N., Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991, Baker, S., Williams, E., Sonuga-Barke, E., Bhui, K., Mankee-Williams, A. & Cooke, P. (2025). Exploring similarities and differences in how researchers and young people understand key terms in youth mental-health research. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), article number 1521. doi: 10.1057/s41599-025-05809-5

Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991 & Parkinson, A. (2025). Cross-Genre Musicking in Individual and Collaborative Group Contexts: Lived Experience and Musical Identity. In: Music Performers' Lived Experiences. (pp. 166-187). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003352778-10

Shaughnessy, N., Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991 & Walduck, J. (2025). Panel: Attuning to Impact Creatively: Evaluating Participatory Arts in Adolescent Mental Health Research. Paper title: Creative Process as Impact: The Participatory Play Framework. Paper presented at the More Culture Less Medicine - 5 Years On, 14-15 Feb 2025, University of Brighton.

Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991 & Walduck, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-2603-3404 (2024). Music, marbling and multisensory trancing. The Senses and Society, 19(3), pp. 351-365. doi: 10.1080/17458927.2024.2398916

Shaughnessy, N., Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991, Williams, E. , Walduck, J., von Jungenfeld, R. & Newman, H. (2024). Playing with data differently: engaging with autism and gender through participatory arts/music and a performative framework for analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, article number 1324036. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1324036

Williams, E., Glew, S., Newman, H. , Kapka, A., Shaughnessy, N., Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991, Walduck, J., Foster, A., Cooke, P., Pethybridge, R., Shaughnessy, C. & Hugh‐Jones, S. (2023). Practitioner Review: Effectiveness and mechanisms of change in participatory arts‐based programmes for promoting youth mental health and well‐being – a systematic review. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(12), pp. 1735-1764. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13900

Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991 (2022). Musical Daydreaming and Kinds of Consciousness. In: Kussner, M., Taruffi, L. & Floridou, G. (Eds.), Music and Mental Imagery. SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music. (pp. 167-177). London UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429330070-18

Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991 (2022). Participation and Playing A/Part. In: Moran, N. & Kim, Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the13th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, CIM22: ‘Participation’. 13th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, 8-10 Jun 2022, Edinburgh, UK.

Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991, Walduck, J., Newman, H. & Shaughnessy, N. (2021). Neurodiverse Worlds: Articulating the Subjective Experience of Autistic Girls Through Music and Sound. In: ICMPC16 - ESCOM11. 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 28-31 Jul 2021, Online.

Herbert, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-9991 (2021). Young people's lived experience of music in everyday life: Psychological and phenomenological perspectives. In: Berger, H. M., Riedel, F. & VanderHamm, D. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures. (pp. 173-198). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190693879.013.18

Sanfilippo, K. R. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Krubally, M., Michelen, M. , Kovane, G. P., Anstee, L., Yusuf, I., McNab, S. & Honikman, S. (2026). Strategies for spreading, scaling, and sustaining perinatal mental health interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) – A scoping review and thematic synthesis. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, doi: 10.1017/gmh.2026.10198

Anstee, L., Firth, J., Adeyinka, T. , Sanfilippo, K. R. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Jeng, M. B. & Stewart, L. (2026). Exploring the experiences of women of African, Caribbean and Mixed heritages to inform a music-based intervention for perinatal mental health in South East London: A qualitative study. PLOS Mental Health, 3(3), article number e0000477. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmen.0000477

Sigwebela, S., McConnell, B. B., Waluwalu, N. , Davies, T., Sanfilippo, K. R. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Stewart, L., Field, S., Glover, V. & Honikman, S. (2026). Community health intervention through musical engagement (CHIME) in South Africa: A formative exploration of the feasibility and development of a music-based intervention to support perinatal mental health. PLOS Global Public Health, 6(2), article number e0004878. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004878

Spiro, N., Sanfilippo, K. R. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Shaughnessy, C. , Rowles, M., Coombes, E., Perkins, R. & Tredget, E. (2025). The landscape of musical care during the beginning of life in the United Kingdom: a mixed-methods survey study. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 25, article number 380. doi: 10.1186/s12906-025-05014-6

Perkins, R., Sanfilippo, K. R. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Graham, D. , Durrant, M., Alway, P., Anstee, L., Corcoran, K., East, E., Ettenberger, M., Knight, J., Krause, A., Lense, M., McCaffrey, T., McConnell, B., Ortiz, T., Spiro, N., Swanick, R. & Tuncgenc, B. (2025). Music and Parental Wellbeing: A Position Paper. Music & Science, 8, doi: 10.1177/20592043251351761

Anstee, L., Firth, J., Hobby, D. , Sanfilippo, K. R. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Miele, M. & Stewart, L. (2025). Exploring facilitator perspectives on four participatory music-based interventions for perinatal mental health: a qualitative study. Arts & Health, pp. 1-18. doi: 10.1080/17533015.2025.2490628

Scarbrough, H. ORCID: 0000-0002-3820-8339, Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Ziemann, A. & Stavropoulou, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-4307-1848 (2024). Mobilizing pilot-based evidence for the spread and sustainability of innovations in healthcare: The role of innovation intermediaries. Social Science & Medicine, 340, article number 116394. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116394

Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, McConnell, B, Darboe, B , Huma, H B, Glover, V & Stewart, L (2023). The experience of maternal mental distress in The Gambia: A qualitative study identifying idioms of distress, perceptions of contributing factors and the supporting role of existing cultural practices. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(9), article number e0002329. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002329

Sanfilippo, K. R. M. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Glover, V., Cornelius, V. , Amiel Castro, R. T., McConnell, B., Darboe, B., Huma, H. B., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I. & Stewart, L. (2023). Expression of antenatal symptoms of common mental disorders in The Gambia and the UK: a cross-sectional comparison study. BMJ Open, 13(7), article number e066807. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066807

Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307 (2023). Book Review: Music therapy in neonatal intensive care: Influences of culture (Shoemark & Ettenberger, Eds.). Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy,

Spiro, N., Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, McConnell, B. B. , Pike-Rowney, G., Bonini Baraldi, F., Brabec, B., Van Buren, K., Camlin, D., Cardoso, T. M., Çifdalöz, B. U., Cross, I., Dumbauld, B., Ettenberger, M., Falkenberg, K., Fouché, S., Frid, E., Gosine, J., Graham-Kackson, A. L., Grahn, J. A., Harrison, K., Ilari, B., Mollison, S., Morrison, S. J., Pérez-Acosta, G., Perkins, R., Pitt, J., Rabinowitch, T-C., Robledo, J-P., Roginsky, E., Shaughnessy, C., Sunderland, N., Talmage, A., Tsiris, G. & de Wit, K. (2023). Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network. Music & Science, 6, article number 20592043231200553. doi: 10.1177/20592043231200553

Stewart, L., McConnell, B., Darboe, B. , Glover, V., Huma, H., Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Cross, I., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P. & Cornelius, V. (2022). Social singing, culture and health: interdisciplinary insights from the CHIME project for perinatal mental health in The Gambia. Health Promotion International, 37(Supplement_1), i18-i25. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daab210

Ziemann, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-5996-8484, Balayah, Z., Stavropoulou, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-4307-1848 , Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307 & Scarbrough, H. ORCID: 0000-0002-3820-8339 (2022). Evaluating the pilot implementation of UCLPartners Proactive Care Frameworks. CHIR.

Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Stewart, L. & Glover, V. (2021). How music may support perinatal mental health: an overview. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 24(5), pp. 831-839. doi: 10.1007/s00737-021-01178-5

Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, McConnell, B., Cornelius, V. , Darboe, B., Huma, H., Gaye, M., Ceesay, H., Ramchandani, P., Cross, I., Glover, V. & Stewart, L. (2020). Community psychosocial music intervention (CHIME) to reduce antenatal common mental disorder symptoms in The Gambia: a feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 10(11), article number e040287. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040287

Sanfilippo, K. R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2236-3307, Spiro, N., Molina-Solana, M. & Lamont, A. (2020). Do the shuffle: Exploring reasons for music listening through shuffled play. PLoS One, 15(2), article number e0228457. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228457

Padfield, D and Zakrzewska,J M (2026) Encountering pain: images as a tool for collaborative approaches to pain medicine. PAIN April 13, 2026. DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003973 (Print issue will be June 2026)

Okagbare F, Swartz A, Padfield D, et al (2025). Your pain and mine: the mismatch between pain expression and perception of patients with sickle cell disease in the UK. Medical Humanities Published Online First: 20 November 2025. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2025-013243

Padfield, D., & West, R. (2024). Visualising the Experience of Pain, Richard West talks to Deborah Padfield about her work in Source, Thinking Through Photography. Source Magazine, Thinking Through Photography.

Padfield, D., Ann, E., & Glenn, A. (2022). Face2face – visual journeys through Trigeminal Neuralgia. In J. Zakrzewska, & T. Nurmikko (Eds.), Trigeminal Neuralgia and other Cranial Neuralgias: A Practical Personalised Holistic Approach. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Padfield, D., Zakrzewska, J. (Eds.), (2021). Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking. London: UCL PRESS. (Currently 26,558 downloads in 138 countries).

Padfield, D., Wickenden, M. (2021). Being in Pain: using images and participatory methods to explore intercultural understanding of pain. In Welikala, T., Kumar, M. (Eds.), Teaching and Learning in Higher Education The context of Being, Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

Padfield, D. (2021). Chapter 8. The photograph as a mediating space in clinical and creative encounters. In Padfield, D., Zakrzewska, JM. (Eds.), Encountering Pain Hearing, seeing, speaking. UK: UCL Press

Padfield, D., Zakrzewska, JM. (2021). Introduction 1 encountering pain. In Padfield, D., Zakrzewska, JM.,(Eds.), Encountering Pain Hearing, seeing, speaking. UK:UCL Press.

Fitzgerald, M and Padfield D. (2021). Introduction II What is pain? A neurobiological perspective. In Padfield, D., Zakrzewska, J.M. (Eds.), Encountering Pain Hearing, seeing, speaking. UK: UCL Press.

Padfield, D. (2020). Absence and presence: the potential for art to facilitate improved communication about pain. LANCET HAEMATOLOGY, 7 (2), E96-E97. doi:10.1016/S2352-3026(20)30005-3

Conference abstract/presentation slides

Padfield D.,with the AMHH Council and the IAS, UCL. Fevers, Frets & Futures: Uncertainty and new ecologies for a post-covid healthcare (2023). Conference convenor and chair for the Association for Medical and Healthcare Humanities (AMHH) Annual International Conference in association with the IAS, UCL, 4^th – 7^th July 2023.

Padfield, D., Jones, P., de-Graft Aikins, A., & Sajnani,, N. (2022/23). The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency, and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies.
An international series of seminars: Australia, Chile, Finland, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, UAE, UK, USA hosted by UCL and NYU. In The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency, and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies. Online via Teams with contributions from: Australia, Chile, Finland, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, Uganda, South Africa, UAE, UK, USA.

Exhibitions

Padfield, D (2026) Anaesthesiology Museum, London, Between Feeling and Unfeeling: Art and Anaesthesia Selection of Photographs from Perceptions of Pain

Padfield, D. (2025, April 3). Inside the Metaphor Series (No. Of Pieces: 3) Barcelona Foto Biennale (8th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography). (Digital archival prints).

Padfield, D., & Omand, H. (2023, June 25). Pain under the microscope: film screening (No. Of Pieces: 1) (Film Screening at meeting). British Pain Society, Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group, Rydal Water.

Padfield, D., & Omand, H. (2021, October 7). Art, Access and Agency (No. Of Pieces: 1) [Film]. Gallery at the Javett, University of Pretoria.

Films

Padfield D & Omand H (2016, revised 2018) Pain under the microscope: duration 35 mins.

Currently being screened at the Anaesthesiology Museum (Part of their Between Feeling and Unfeeling: Art and Anaesthesia exhibition running from April 28^th 2026 to April 2027)

Previous screenings include: Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 2016, Osaka University Japan, 2017, Encountering Pain Conference UCL, London and other public events and conferences in London in 2016 and 2017. Revised version screenings include: Birkbeck, Medical Humanities Reading Group, St George’s, University of London, UCL, the Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) conference, Sofia Bulgaria 2018, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 2019, University of Pretoria Gallery, 2021, British Pain Society, 2023.  

Padfield, D., & Omand, H. (2012, November 19). Pain Less Exhibition at the Science Museum, London, film screening of Fragmented Lines. Film co-created with adult participatory pain group (No. Of Pieces: 1) [Exhibition]. Science Museum, London.

Padfield D (2011) Duet for Pain: duration 12 mins

Screenings include: Menier Gallery (2011), UCLH Street Gallery (2011), National Portrait Gallery (2012) and the Wellcome Trust, London (2012). See: Pain and its Meanings, the Wellcome Trust, Film Screening, Duet for Pain. (No. Of Pieces: 1) [Exhibition]. Wellcome Trust.

Hales, H., Jewell, M., Bartlett, A. and Adshead, G., (2025). Preventing Detention: Ethical and Legal Disputes Between Professionals in the Detention of Young People Who Present a Risk to Others. Medical Research Archives, [online] 13(7).  (Open Access)

Hales, H., Bartlett, A. and Gwen Adshead (2025). Rapid Response to: Smartphone and social media harms: why we failed in our duty of care. , BMJ

Forrester, A., Kothari, R., Allen, S., and Annie Bartlett, A. (2024). Prison healthcare: The practical and ethical consequences of the current state of prisons . Medicine Science and Law Online First  (Open Access)

Balasubramaniam, S., Smith, J.G., Hales, H., Bartlett, A.. (2023). Medium secure mental health care for young people: decisions to detain,  The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 34:3-4, 401-415, DOI: 0.1080/14789949.2023.2245365 (Open Access)

Bartlett, A., Hales, H. (2022). Detaining children: Are we sure we are doing the right things? Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Volume 32, Issue 3 First published: 13 August 2022

Bartlett, A., Smith, J.A., Warner, L. and Hales, H. (2022).  The Unwanted Child: Exploration of Adverse Patterns of Placement of Young People in Secure Care for Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 05 April 2022 (Open Access)

Bartlett, A., Smith, J.G., Warner, L. et al. Young men and young women in secure care: gender differences in the placement of those with mental health needs. BMC Psychiatry 21, 433 (2021).  (Open Access)

Bartlett, A. (2021). Sexual Diversity and UK Psychiatry and Mental Health. In G. Ikkos & N. Bouras (Eds.), Mind, State and Society: Social History of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Britain 1960–2010 (pp. 336-347). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781911623793.036 (Open Access)

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