I am a founding board member of SIMM (Social Impact of Making Music). 

Along with colleagues from SIMM, I worked as co-investigator on a 3-year international research project on the social impact of making music, based at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. I was attached to the Colombia branch of the project.

For an overview of the project, see:

Sloboda, J.A,, Baker, G, De bisschop A., Karttunnen, S., Mazzola, A., Rojas, J. S., Van Zijl, A., Westerlund, H., and Zapata Restrepo, G. (2021) Music for Social Impact: an overview of context, policy and activity in four countries, Belgium, Colombia, Finland, and the UK. Finnish Journal of Music Education, Vol 231/2, 116-143.  

I wrote the paper: “The social impact of making music in Colombia: reflections and proposals.” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380546181_The_social_impact_of_making_music_in_Colombia_reflections_and_proposals

Available in Spanish as: “El impacto social del hacer musical en Colombia: reflexiones y propuestas.” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388350205_El_impacto_social_del_hacer_musical_en_Colombia_reflexiones_y_propuestas