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The first International Symposium on Inner Music and Wellbeing was held on 18-19 May 2026 at Durham University. The event brought together a wide range of different disciplinary perspectives and speakers from across the globe. In this post I highlight some of the main themes that emerged across the event. Over the coming months we ... Read more

Networking is always less intimidating when pre-arranged with a cuppa: an Early Career Researcher’s experience of the network’s monthly Collaborative Exchange meetings  Networking can sometimes feel like an intimidating word, never mind an intimidating thing to do. Conferences and society meetings are great for getting to know people and putting faces to names, but are ... Read more

The second webinar of the AHRC Inner Music and Wellbeing Network was led by Dr Jan Coebergh, who works as a Consultant Neurologist in the UK. Dr Coebergh has documented cases of musical hallucinations (MH) in over 60 patients to date. Dr Coebergh gave a comprehensive overview of the variety of experiences that can characterise ... Read more

The first session of the Inner Music and Wellbeing webinar series was a celebration of different disciplinary perspectives, featuring talks by two of our network members. Professor Andrea Halpern is a psychologist with a long-standing interest in individual differences in musical imagery across the lifespan from a cognitive and neural perspective, while Dr James Kennaway ... Read more