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A/Prof Imogen Clark is an Honorary Principal Fellow in Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne. Following a 20-year career as a nurse, and a 20-year career as music therapy clinican, researcher and academic, Imogen retired in 2026. Her research focuses on healthy ageing, music listening and physical activity, guided imagery and music, and music therapy pedagogy. She has published widely in peer-reviewed music therapy, medical, and allied health journals reporting on diverse research methods including randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental trials, systematic reviews, psychometric testing, interpretative phenomenological analysis, and thematic analysis. She was awarded the Hazel Hawke Dementia Australia grant in 2018 to investigate the effects of songwriting on the health and wellbeing of families living with dementia and received the La Trobe University Nancy Millis Award for PhD thesis of exceptional merit in 2016. Imogen has served as Associate Editor for the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy (2020-2025), Editor for the Australian Journal of Music Therapy (2015-2020), and Chair of conferences for the Australian Music Therapy Association (2012-2014).