Our PhD student, Fruzsi Szucs, is performing a FREE concert this Wednesday afternoon! This is part of a live audience study run by another PhD student in our lab, Nao Toyama, who will collect data about your experience during the performance. Sign up here! www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044EA5...
If you're in Durham next week please consider helping out my PhD student by participating in a fun study on music listening. You will receive £5 cash at the session!
Combined logos from the Inner Music and Wellbeing Network and the 4th World Tinnitus Congress
The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network is pleased to partner with the World Tinnitus Congress London 2027, an international forum bringing together researchers, clinicians, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore the full complexity of tinnitus.
Last week to submit abstracts to join our group in Durham in July for the SysMus26 conference! Please share with any interested #musicscience students! musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
How to think about culture in psychology and neuroscience? What about seeing it as a source and product of perceptual plasticity? Such an inspiring journey to co-write this paper with R Polak, A Danielsen, N Jacoby, L Pearson, S Horlor, S Aubinet, J London.
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Feedback welcome!
Follow @innermusicgroup.bsky.social for more news soon on our Inner Music and Wellbeing Symposium in Durham this May, and other exciting events on this topic!
Come work with us in Oslo! We are hiring a PhD fellow in the psychology of music, AI, and creativity, affiliated with the newly established @mishmashcentre.bsky.social
Details: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
This is a really cool artistic demonstration of the inner experience of music
📣 I am searching for a postdoc!! 📣
📌 Université Bourgogne Europe, CNRS, Dijon, France 🌍
⌛ 2 years
📚 Music rhythm, language, developmental language disorders
Preliminary details below - please get in touch if you're interested!
www.linkedin.com/posts/anna-f...
Well done Imogen!! @durhammusicdept.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
Delighted to represent
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social at the Kautilya Foundation’s Synesthesia Soirée. Shared some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded work on synaesthesia and musically evoked narrative imaginings.
#Synaesthesia
#Musicscience
My talk starts from 35mins 😉 youtu.be/ZgOzid86qOA
We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Just published, the co-structuring of gesture-vocal dynamics in vocal performance, with @wimpouw.bsky.social
and Thomas Nuttall. Which dimensions of hand and head gestures co-structure with which vocal modalities, and how does this differ across individuals? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!
Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.
Nominations close 18 January 2026.
#AcademicSky #Research
Beautiful photos by Joe Bates, Musicon, from our MR/ AR concert at Durham University, UK, Launch of Psychogeography with E.Ravilious AR app @hauntedplanet.com @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social @madshaahr.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social #DreaMR @dreamr.art
It was such pleasure to perform in Durham!🥰thank you so much!🙏 @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
Congrats to our @durhammusicdept.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social UG student authors for their publications in this year's DURMS volume! And thanks to the whole editorial team, especially @curwen01.bsky.social and @aliyaedwards.bsky.social for leading! musicscience.net/durms/volume...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
This is a chatGPT created image about barriers to data sharing.
What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data?
If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Calling all #musicpsych #musicscience and students working in related areas! Please consider joining us in Durham this summer for what is shaping up to be a fantastic event!
Mixed Reality Concert in Durham! Thanks to Musicon & @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social @hauntedplanet.com @madshaahr.bsky.social and some snow here already!☃️🎵 @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social
🎹Arrived to Durham!Tomorrow is Musicon Mixed Reality Concert and talk on Music Department! We also included LoGaCulture music “Voices of the Boyne”! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #TrinityCollegeDublin @hauntedplanet.com @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social @madshaahr.bsky.social @logaculture.bsky.social
Any last takers for this concert on Wednesday? Should be fun! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Fully funded #PhD at RNCM alert!
RNCM + partners in the the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College are offering 30 AHRC studentships exploring care, creativity & community💡
💰 £20,780 stipend + fees covered
📅 EOI: 1 Dec 2025
👉 rncm.ac.uk/news
#DoctoralFunding #MusicResearch
Mixed Reality Concert by Haunted Planet Studios at Durham! 19 th November 7.30 pm #music #science #DreaMR it’s also Launch “E.Ravilious: Psychogeography AR” with @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social 🎹🎻 pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham... @hauntedplanet.com @madshaahr.bsky.social
The longest author list I’ve been on yet, but for good reasons! A massive and rigorous international research collaboration. Well done to Massimo and Francesca for leading this!
Thanks to @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social and Leeds School of Music for a fun and stimulating visit.
And with many thanks to the rest of the team doing this research @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social, @weiwu.bsky.social, @margulisa.bsky.social
New #openaccess paper on musical chills! 🎶🎺
Most work on listeners, but we find musicians experience chills while performing!
Chills linked to performance qualities, connections between performers and personal associations. Findings suggest chills + wellbeing link
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0305...
One more day!! Please consider joining us in Durham if you do research on imagined music and wellbeing!
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
