Ingelill Eide is a trained child welfare educator and music therapist. She has worked with music and music therapy across a broad spectrum of children, youth, and adults within the framework of special schools (6-16y), educational resource centers (0-6 y), Schools of music and prforming arts, and other culture activities.
Responsibilities
- Course Coordinator for BVEMNE3
- Course Coordinator for MSH-PABU
Competences
Eide has extensive experience in music therapy work with children and youth with various developmental disorders and disabilities.
Special areas of expertise and interest include:
- Communication and relation
- Social pedagogy
- Professional development
- Profession and organization
- Theory of professions
- Institutional theory of organizatons
- Music and health
- Music therapy
- Music as communication and interaction
Eide's doctoral dissertation, "Gaps and sensemaking: the legitimation and institutionalization of music therapy in Norwegian organizational contexts" (2024), addresses how music therapy is institutionalized in various organizational contexts. The study is a qualitative case study based on theory of professions and institutional theory of organizations. The dissertation contributes to profession research in music therapy.
Eide has also been the editor of the journal Musikkterapi (level 1), published by the Norwegian Association of Music Therapy, for several years.