Jennifer Donovan
Jenny Donovan was previously a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University and more recently in the School of Nursing Charles Darwin University as the postgraduate course coordinator for child and family health nursing in community. Her main research interests focussed on men in families. Prior to her breast cancer diagnosis and re-occurrence Jenny, also a qualified musician, worked as an accompanist for wind, string, brass and voice. She also played for music theatre. After that time, while facing up to her own mortality, Jenny studied and developed aspects of music therapy training and developing therapeutic drumming groups while combining her two professional interests, nursing and music. Her presentation covers this latter period of her life and focuses on specific vignettes where music has acted as a conduit for change and healing for people she has worked with and for herself personally as a cancer survivor.
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