Dr Jinah Kim is an associate professor and researcher in Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on early interventions with children with autism spectrum disorder and child welfare. She has undertaken a series of interdisciplinary studies investigating the effects of improvisational music therapy on social communication behaviours in children with autism spectrum disorder and children exposed to child abuse and poverty.

Dr Kim has psychodynamic and developmental orientation in her music therapy practice, supervision and theoretical foundations in her research.

Dr Kim received her PhD in 2006 from Aalborg University, Denmark, under the supervision of Professor Tony Wigram. She then worked as acting head of music therapy at the school of music, the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2007, replacing Prof. Felicity Baker on her maternity leave. Later in 2007, Dr Kim moved back to Korea and worked as the head of the creative arts therapy department/professor, Jeonju University, from 2008 ~ 2020. In mid-2020, she moved to Melbourne and joined an outstanding music therapy team at the University Melbourne.

Dr Kim was part of the TIME-A group, a multi-centre trial involving nine countries investigating the effects of improvisational music therapy on social communication behaviours in children with ASD.

Dr Kim recently completed a three-year project: Music therapy outcome study for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through the integration of child neuroimaging and neuropsychology: An exploratory study (MANE). This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017S1A5A2A03068100)

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