Inner Music and Wellbeing Network

🎶 We're thrilled to share that the Inner Music and Wellbeing Network's International Symposium is now held in association with Sempre!

💫 Students and unwaged delegates can now apply for funding to support their attendance.

🗓️ Deadline: 4 Nov 2025

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🌀 Still time to submit to our international symposium!

📍 Durham University | 18–19 May 2026

🗓️ Submissions close 4 Nov 2025

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Our Call for Contributions is still open! Please share widely 💥

Thank you!

💥 Call for Contributions 💥

We are seeking contributions for our symposium at Durham University, 18–19 May 2026.

Deadline: 4 Nov 2025.

Full details below 👇

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We’re thrilled to announce that the Inner Music and Wellbeing Network is a Strategic Partner of the 4th World Tinnitus Congress & XV International Tinnitus Seminar, 30 June–2 July 2027.

@freyabailes.bsky.social will lead a track on Consciousness, Inner Music & Auditory Imagery.

wtc2027.co.uk

🧠🎶 We’re not organising it—but we think it’s worth your radar.

The International Conference on Music and Sleep 2026 dives into sound, neuroscience, and sleep studies.

📍 Aarhus, Denmark | 📅 1–3 Oct 2026 🔗 Learn more: musicinthebrain.au.dk

@innermusicgroup.bsky.social, this looks like some fascinating research

New entry in our database of musical imagery in fiction and biography! 📖

Jack Reacher, the protagonist of @leechild58.bsky.social's novels, often experiences music internally rather than through external devices. Example from 'The Killing Floor' below 👇

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Tomorrow evening I'll be delivering a public talk about the 'Science of 'Earworms': reasons to care about the 'sounds' of silence': www.cafe-sci.org.uk Ideas relating to our work at the @innermusicgroup.bsky.social

Thanks to @aliyaedwards.bsky.social from @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social for this excellent guest blog post about the opportunities she’s been afforded by the Inner Music and Wellbeing network!

Blog 3: Networking is always less intimidating when pre-arranged with a cuppa - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network 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 l...

We have a new blog post!

@aliyaedwards.bsky.social reflects on our Collaborative Exchange scheme ☕💬

Read here:

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Blog 2: Unwanted inner music: When and why does it become difficult? - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network 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...

The blog continues to grow! Our second post is live. ⚡

@kellyjakubowski.bsky.social offers some thoughts following our second webinar led by Dr Jan Coebergh.

Read it through the link below 👇

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Blog 1: Attitudes To and Perceptions of Musical Imagery and Wellbeing - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network 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...

Our first blog post is live! 📖 🤩

@freyabailes.bsky.social reflects on our first webinar led by Professor Andrea Halpern and @jgkennaway.bsky.social.

Read it through the link below👇

musicinmyhead.org/blog-1/

📖 We're looking for examples to populate our database of inner music in fiction and biography. 📖

All are welcome to submit - please share widely!

More details below:

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Thanks to all who attended our webinar today! And particular thanks to Dr Jan Coebergh and his guests for a fascinating presentation 🌟

Submissions are always welcome to our database ✏️

We're looking for examples of inner music in fiction and biography. Anyone welcome to submit - please share widely!

More details below:

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Our network member Andrea Halpern has been cited in a recent article by Stan B Klein and Judith Loftus titled 'Creating a World in the Head'

This has got us thinking: how might musical imagery and wellbeing relate in an evolutionary perspective?

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We still need help with our database!

We're looking for examples of inner music in fiction and biography. Anyone welcome to submit - please share widely!

More details below:

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Participants needed for a study run by one of our members! ✏️

Details in the power below:

Not our conference but likely of interest to network members!

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Call for Papers (spoken presentations and posters): The Mind’s Ear and Inner Voice 2025

Transdisciplinary Conference (April 14 -16, 2025)
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

anauralia-lab.webflow.io/conference