The OHMI Research Partnership (ORP) is comprised of three core partners: 
​The OHMI Trust, Queen Mary University of London, and Birmingham City University.

Through collaborations on research projects with other universities, organisations and individuals, we aim to expand our network to promote dialogue across multiple disciplines on the nature of access to music for disabled people.

Core partners:

The OHMI Trust

The OHMI Trust is a UK-based charity pioneering the development and adaptation of musical instruments for people who are physically disabled. Our objective is to remove the barriers to music-making so as to enable full and undifferentiated participation in musical life. There are four elements to our work:​

Queen Mary University of London

Augmented Instruments Lab
Queen Mary University of London's Augmented Instruments Lab, led by Professor Andrew McPherson, is a team within the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), a world-leading research group in music and audio technology. A major research focus of the Lab is the design of new accessible digital musical instruments (ADMIs).

Media and Arts Technology (MAT)
Since 2015, PhD students on QMUL's EPSRC and AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology have taken part in six-month placement projects supported by OHMI, with a view to researching and developing new accessible instrument designs.

AI + Music (AIM)
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) launched in 2019. AIM will train a new generation of researchers who combine state-of-the-art ability in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and signal processing with cross-disciplinary sensibility to deliver groundbreaking original research and impact within the UK Creative Industries and cultural sector.

Birmingham City University

Music Education
Led by Professor Martin Fautley and Dr. Victoria Kinsella at the Birmingham Music Education Research Group (B-MERG), research at BCU has focused on the use of accessible musical instruments and teaching methods. This includes two qualitative studies of the OHMI Music Makers teaching pilot programme

Instrument Manufacture
3D printing and Computer-Aided Design experts at the BCU School of Jewellery are assisting the ORP with developing methods of cost-effective manufacture of 3D-printed wind instruments.