This book focuses on leadership and management strategies including project management, budget planning and management, governance, building a team, and developing a strategy for successful recruitment. Data management, monitoring, and intervention fidelity and development of a statistical analysis plan are outlined.

Chapter 1. Introduction: So you won the grant, now what? - Chapter 2. Establishing Good Governance.- Chapter 3. Assembling and Uniting a Team.- Chapter 4. Study Protocol.- Chapter 5. Budgeting for Success: Management and Resource Planning.- Chapter 6. Recruitment, Retention, and Follow-up: Frustration or Bliss?  - Chapter 7. Quality Data is Power: Data Management and Monitoring.- Chapter 8. Statistical Analysis Plan.- Chapter 9. Publication and Dissemination Plan.- Chapter 10. Multinational Trials.

“Everyone involved in clinical trials should read this brilliant much needed book. Through vivid examples, Felicity leads the reader through the highs and lows of delivering a trial, with solutions, and detailed reflections learned from practice. This will appeal to all, across the medical, health, creative and social fields.” —Professor Helen Odell-Miller OBE Anglia Ruskin University “Felicity Baker offers a detailed account of “how to” implement robust large-scale fully-powered clinical trials that meet the rigor required by funding bodies, high impact journals, and policy makers. This timely book is an asset for novice and advanced researchers alike, across all health professions.” —Professor Hod Orkibi, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel. “This book offers a guide for creative arts therapists to navigate the world of high quality, multi-disciplinary and world-leading research. Felicity's in-depth understanding of conducting clinical trials will act as a beacon of good practice for any health professional interested in conducting outcome studies in their discipline.” —Professor Vicky Karkou, Edge Hill University, UK Rarely do creative arts therapy researchers receive adequate training to implement large policy-changing clinical trials. Leadership and Management of Clinical Trials in Creative Arts Therapy, addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive guide to successful trial implementation. Chapters guide researchers through key activities including project management, governance consideration, assembling a research team, budget and data planning and monitoring, and participant recruitment. Later chapters focus on the development of a knowledge translation and exchange plan, and commercialisation of intellectual property.Professor Felicity Anne Baker is Associate Dean (Research), University of Melbourne, and Professor II, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo. Over 30 years, shehas amassed AUS$15+Million to fund several interdisciplinary clinical trials. She is a former Australia Research Council Future Fellow and has won numerous international awards for her music therapy research.

“Everyone involved in clinical trials should read this brilliant much needed book. Uniquely, Felicity Baker provides an intensive and practical guide, aimed at arts therapists and other allied health professions. Through vivid examples, she leads the reader through the highs and lows of delivering a trial, with solutions, and detailed reflections learned from practice in teams worldwide. This will appeal to all, across the medical, health, creative and social fields.” (Professor Helen Odell-Miller OBE Anglia Ruskin University) “In Leadership and Management of Clinical Trials in Creative Arts Therapies, Prof. Felicity Baker offers a detailed account of “how to” implement robust large-scale fully-powered clinical trialsthat meet the rigor required by competitive funding bodies, highimpact journals, and policy makers. This timely book is an asset for novice and advanced researchers alike, not only from the creative arts therapies but also from other health professions who want to conduct a quality research that can have both clinical impact and policy-changing influences.” (Professor Hod Orkibi, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel) “This book opens new ground for research in arts therapies and beyond. By discussing the challenges and opportunities of conducting clinical trials in the field of arts therapies, it boosts research in methodologies less used, supporting our intuitive arguments that arts therapies work. For dance movement therapists in particular,it offers a primer of how to navigate around the world of high quality, multi-disciplinary and world-leading research. Its appeal, however, is expected to reach audiences above and beyond researchers in arts therapies.  Felicity's in-depth understanding of conducting clinical trials will act as a beacon of good practice for any health professional interested in conducting outcome studies in their discipline.” (Professor Vicky Karkou, Edge Hill University, UK) “It is well recognized that clinical trials play an important role in the evaluation of care practices and the evolution of health policy. However, the benefits of clinical trials depend on well organized team management, implementation, and knowledge translation. This comprehensive text on leading and managing clinical trials in the creative arts therapies equips researchers with practical skills, clearly documented examples, and an appreciation for interdisciplinary collaboration. It is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the creative arts therapies.” (Prof. Nisha Sajnani, Chair, Creative Arts Therapies Consortium and International Research Alliance, New York University)

Offers a practical guide on how to implement large-scale clinical trials Covers the range of elements involved in trials including project management, risk and recruitment Follows the author's own experience from being an ECR to leading international and interdisciplinary research projects

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