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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠
@dancingresearch.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @PsychologyTCD
Visiting Researcher Cambridge

Music | Agency | Dance | Identity | Wellbeing

#musicpsych #musictherapy #research
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Delighted to be awarded a New Foundations grant from
@researchireland.bsky.social with #Neurodiversity Ireland to explore neurodivergent people’s experience of music and arts events

We’re going to use Photovoice to see things from a whole new perspective

😅✨🤹🏻‍♂️🎪🎷

#musicscience #inclusivetrinity
We had a great time at the launch today, it was a full public display of emotion and we got a great response from the attendees.

Still time to check it out tomorrow…
Join us today and tomorrow (30th-31st) for the "Music and Arts Supporting Neurodivergence: A Photovoice Exhibition" in the Trinity Business School from 12:00 - 20:00

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠@geo
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This amazing exhibition will run today and tomorrow from 12:00 - 20:00 at the Trinity Business School.

#neurodiversity #ireland #art #exhibition #music #psychology Hosted by Claire Howlin 🎶🧠
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Join us today and tomorrow (30th-31st) for the "Music and Arts Supporting Neurodivergence: A Photovoice Exhibition" in the Trinity Business School from 12:00 - 20:00

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠@geo
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here we are setting up the photovoice exhibition - thankfully we had an expert in straight lines with us…

Looking forward to the public launch tomorrow - but the tickets are now sold out!

@georginacoyle.bsky.social #Photovoice @researchireland.ie
October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Join us for the launch Tomorrow at 2pm - "Music and Arts Supporting Neurodivergence: A Photovoice Exhibition"

Grab a free ticket here:

tinyurl.com/3wub8377

The exhibition is open daily from 12:00–20:00 on 29th, 30th, and 31st October 2025 at Trinity Business School. @dancingresearch.bsky.social
Music and Arts Supporting Neurodivergence: A Photovoice Exhibition
Join us at Trinity Business School on Oct 30 @ 2 PM for our Photovoice Exhibition on music, arts & neurodiversity. Free but limited tickets!
www.eventbrite.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Cant wait for this - the artwork gives a beautiful insight into how different minds work, from extremely literal to impossibly abstract.

To give our participants more agency we’ll be hearing from them directly,
including non speaking people, and professional artists.

🧑‍🎨 🧠🌈

#dublin #psychology
Join us at Trinity Business School on Oct 30 @ 2 PM for our Photovoice Exhibition on music, arts & neurodiversity. Free but limited tickets! Hosted by @dancingresearch.bsky.social
Register below:

www.eventbrite.ie/e/music-and-...
October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening" - Dr Claire Howlin, Assistant Professor, was featured in the Associated Press. Please read the full article below:

@dancingresearch.bsky.social

apnews.com/article/musi...
Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening
Hospitals and doctors' offices are inviting singers and musicians to help patients manage their pain, as music's ability to reduce pain is gaining attention.
apnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Cant wait for this - the artwork gives a beautiful insight into how different minds work, from extremely literal to impossibly abstract.

To give our participants more agency we’ll be hearing from them directly,
including non speaking people, and professional artists.

🧑‍🎨 🧠🌈

#dublin #psychology
Join us at Trinity Business School on Oct 30 @ 2 PM for our Photovoice Exhibition on music, arts & neurodiversity. Free but limited tickets! Hosted by @dancingresearch.bsky.social
Register below:

www.eventbrite.ie/e/music-and-...
October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Nice opportunity opening up here in Dublin for someone to design a Clinical Creativity course for medical students

www.artsandhealth.ie/2025/10/03/n...
NCAD Part-Time Lecturer – Clinical Creativity - Arts + Health
The CFA at National College of Art and Design (NCAD), with the support of Creative Ireland, is seeking a suitably qualified individual to research, design, and develop a new module specification “Clinical Creativity”.
www.artsandhealth.ie
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement for an exchange of Israeli hostages in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. President Trump, who pushed to broker the deal, said both sides had agreed to the first phase of his peace plan, which involves a pullback of Israeli troops. Follow live: nyti.ms/48ifs4o
October 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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QUIET HOUR at the Museum
A sensory-friendly space with low lighting, reduced noise & fewer crowds—ideal for neurodivergent visitors & anyone seeking calm.
📍 Collins Barracks, Dublin
📅Saturday 11 October, 10:00am - 11:00am
🔗 Details: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
#SensoryFriendly
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Does anyone have any boring music for music for experiments?
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.

#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych
October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Join us at Trinity Business School on Oct 30 @ 2 PM for our Photovoice Exhibition on music, arts & neurodiversity. Free but limited tickets! Hosted by @dancingresearch.bsky.social
Register below:

www.eventbrite.ie/e/music-and-...
October 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Want better sleep? Nature reports how circadian research shows how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber. Scientists emphasize three basics: contrasting light and dark, consolidating mealtimes and keeping sleep times consistent. 🧪
How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says
Chuck the gadgets, the fads and the alarm. Circadian research reveals how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber.
go.nature.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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💡 #Opportunity
👉Running Up That Hill: Arts Funding Conference @universityofgalway.bsky.social
🗣Concluding the Research Ireland Laureate award 'The Price of Performance: A Question of Economic Sustainability for Independent Theatre & Performance
📋 www.performingartsforum.ie/.../running-...
September 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...
Dr. Marc Wittmann, Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST
YouTube video by ESI Frankfurt
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
‘You’ll never get much of a job with a Masters in Music and Dance’..

Well, in 2025 I’m starting a permanent post as Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCD.

my new music cognition lab will study music from neural mechanisms to public health +ask how music supports agency+identity.

#MusicScience
October 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is going to be a great event, really looking forward to it..

We actually used body mapping (usually used for pain) to encourage people to explore their embodied responses to #music

photovoice is a radical way to give people agency in research

#neurodiversity #creativity #wellbeing #photo
Photovoice Exhibition 29th - 31st October at Trinity Business school led by Dr. Claire Howlin. ‘How Music and Arts Support Neurodiversity’ will showcase photos and stories from neurodivergent adults about how creativity helps them thrive. Join us for the LAUNCH Oct 30th @dancingresearch.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Photovoice Exhibition 29th - 31st October at Trinity Business school led by Dr. Claire Howlin. ‘How Music and Arts Support Neurodiversity’ will showcase photos and stories from neurodivergent adults about how creativity helps them thrive. Join us for the LAUNCH Oct 30th @dancingresearch.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Trinity College unveils 'gamechanger' brain scanner. Watch the full interview with Professor Redmond O'Connell with RTE here:

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

@redmondoconnell.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Great to see the new OPM-MEG scanner @tcdpsychology.bsky.social is up and running! Can’t wait to see the new projects that will emerge from it.

#neuroscience #imaging #TPJ @redmondoconnell.bsky.social

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Wearable TCD brain scanner a 'gamechanger' for research
Trinity College Dublin has acquired a new €2m state-of-the-art wearable brain scanner which it has described as a "gamechanger" for brain research in Ireland.
www.rte.ie
September 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
So here I am on IrelandAM! Talking music development in babies + a new dance album by Graham Smyth made for babies and parents together -drum breaks with a pianola

it was ALOT more relaxed than the breakfast show, presenters were super friendly.

#music #dance #babyrave @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Next Monday I’ll be appearing on IrelandAM to talk about music development in infants, and how to nurture their dancebility.

Bit nervous to be honest but hey ho, back to school we go.

#dance #music #dublin
a baby in a diaper is dancing with the words like this behind him
ALT: a baby in a diaper is dancing with the words like this behind him
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August 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM