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Harmony in Migrant Health Hub (HarmonyHub)

Harmony in Migrant Health Hub (HarmonyHub) explores how musical storytelling helps people feel connected, valued, and well.

The HarmonyHub is a research-focused space. Here music, storytelling and community come together to support emotional and mental wellbeing, especially for migrants from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities. By working closely with community members, artists, and organisations HarmonyHub ensures the research is shaped by lived experience and cultural knowledge – not just theory.

Music is more than creativity. It is connection. HarmonyHub shows how shared musical storytelling can reduce loneliness, build belonging, and strengthen wellbeing. This matters because social isolation and stress often sit behind health problems.

When communities feel socially well, they need fewer medical interventions for issues rooted in disconnection and isolation. By understanding how musical storytelling supports migrant belonging and resilience, HarmonyHub helps point the way to a smarter, more preventative approach – keeping people healthier, connected, and supported before they reach crisis.

HarmonyHub is part of the Research Program in Migration, Diversity and Care (MDC) within the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, and collaborates with aligned initiatives including:

  • Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab
  • The Rainbow Migrants Lab (RaMiLab)
  • TRACS Diversity Research Network

HarmonyHub Dance Performance

HarmonyHub Dance Performance

Core Values

  1. The mission of HarmonyHub is to support migrants across the life-course, through participatory action and transformative research.
  2. By addressing intersectional and intergenerational challenges faced by CaLD communities, HarmonyHub strengthens social cohesion and promotes diverse creative expression. Its emphasis on co-designed research and inclusion reflects SAH’s priority of tackling complex, multidimensional societal issues.
  3. HarmonyHub uses musical storytelling as a collaborative space where migrants share lived narratives of identity, racism, loneliness, health, and ageing, strengthening connection, agency, and collective wellbeing.
  4. By integrating filmmaking into the programme, HarmonyHub supports participant wellbeing through reflective creative practice while generating film outputs that amplify participant voices and extend social impact across the wider community.
  5. HarmonyHub advances positive social change through strong leadership and collaborative partnerships, enabling SAH to develop research and education that uplift creative and caring professions and promote fairness, equity, and inclusion.

HarmonyHub Community Choir

HarmonyHub Community Choir

Partnerships

  • Bangali Society for Puja and Culture Inc. WA.
  • Bhutanese Community in Perth, WA.
  • Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Services.
  • Laguna Veneto Social & Bocce Club.
  • Purple Lotus, Specialised Care & Therapy Services.
  • Musicians Without Borders, UK.
  • Music and Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada.

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