Show Notes

On Season 2, Episode 3, we welcome Pauline Waugh, a practice nurse who co-founded the singing for breathing charity The Cheyne Gang and Long Covid Support Scotland; Dr Keir Philip who is a clinical research fellow at Imperial College London who led a research study on singing and Long Covid during the pandemic, and Gareth Williams, a Glasgow-based composer and song writer who has been involved as a composer in residence in Scottish Opera’s ‘Breath Cycle’ projects working with individuals with cystic fibrosis in 2014 and more recently on a project for people suffering with long covid symptoms.

The show is presented by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, the Principal Investigator of the Network.

The show’s producer and editor is Sophie Boyd.

Below, we have provided links to resources mentioned in the episode.

More details about the Network

Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/

Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk

Twitter: @ScotSingHealth

Key links

The Cheyne Gang: https://www.thecheynegang.com/

Long CovidSupport Scotland: https://www.longcovid.scot/support

Scottish Opera’sBreath Cycle Project: https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/breath-cycle/

Scottish Opera,Breath Cycle II, The Covid Composers Songbook: https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/breath-cycle/the-covid-composers-songbook/.

Breath Cycle –Singing and Cystic Fibrosis: http://www.breathcycle.co.uk/.

NHS Your CovidRecovery: https://www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk/.

Research papers discussed in this episode are linked on the project website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/podcast/series-2/episode-3-singing-for-long-covid-support/