Based at Toronto Metropolitan University, SingWell brings together world-leading researchers examining the benefits of group singing, alongside partners across Canada with a role to play in activating them.
Our research network is deepening scientific understanding of the specific factors that make group singing impactful for different populations, with a special focus on people living with communication challenges.
We also share knowledge and resources to inspire and equip professionals, volunteers, policymakers and the public to participate in and help grow the practice of group singing in ways that intentionally promote wellbeing.
We lead research to increase scientific understanding of the benefits of group singing for wellbeing, with an emphasis on group singing’s potential to support communication function in adults living with communication challenges.
We share knowledge to inspire the public, policymakers and partners to participate in and help grow the practice of group singing.
We provide resources to equip professionals and volunteers to run choirs that intentionally promote wellbeing.
Faculty of Arts
Toronto Metropolitan University
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Sonova International
Barbara Lazar, a choir participant with hearing loss, shares how a SingWell-affiliated choir offered a pathway for her to continue to experience the joy of singing with others while navigating some of the challenges posed by hearing loss.
At SingWell, we’re all about the power of voices coming together — usually through singing. But what about chanting?
Tim Hague Sr., founder and Chair of U-Turn Parkinson’s, on the difference group singing has made for himself and other participants — and why it helps to recognize it as another workout in your routine.
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