Nurbanu Somani
PhD student
Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research and Vision & Hearing Research Centre
Faculty:Faculty of Science and Engineering
School:Psychology and Sport Science
Location: Cambridge
Areas of Expertise: Vision and eye research , Psychology
Indicative thesis title: Addressing psychological and emotional wellbeing in people with acquired vision loss using music
Email: ns766@pgr.aru.ac.uk
Background
Supervisory team: Peter Allen (1st), Eldre Beukes (2nd) and Alexander Street (3rd)
Nurbanu is currently completing her PhD which is focussed on developing an online music-based intervention aimed at improving the psychological wellbeing of people with acquired vision loss.
Research interests
- Quality of life
- Wellbeing
- Low vision
- Music as medicine
Qualifications
- MRes, Vision Research (University College London)
- BSc, Biology (University College London)
- Ophthalmic Dispensing (Anglia Ruskin University)
- Fellowship of dispensing opticians
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Selected recent publications
Somani N, Beukes E, Latham K, Andersson G, Allen PM. Designing an internet-based intervention for improving wellbeing in people with acquired vision loss: A Delphi consensus study. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 2021 Sep;41(5):971-984. doi: 10.1111/opo.12849. Epub 2021 Aug 15. PMID: 34392552.