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Dr. Claire Howlin

Assistant Professor (Psychology)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH
      
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Dr. Claire Howlin

Assistant Professor (Psychology)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 howlincl@tcd.ie

 3531896 1886


Claire is a psychology researcher interested in identifying the long-term impact of music and visual arts engagement on lifelong health and wellbeing using controlled experimental designs and evidence synthesis from large international datasets. Central to Claire's research is understanding how music and arts engagement can facilitate personal agency, identity development, and self-efficacy, which are key determinants of mental health and psychological wellbeing. Before coming to Trinity Claire held a Junior Research Fellowship with the University of Cambridge focussed on music therapy for autistic children, and a Creative Health Fellowship from University College London. Previously, her research has been supported by the Irish Research Council, Nurofen, the Society for Music Psychology and Education Research, and University College Dublin. She enjoys collaborating directly with artists and creative people and the findings of her previous research have been featured in a range of international academic journals (BMC Psychiatry, PLOS One, Journal of Music Therapy) and mainstream press outlets (e.g. Forbes Magazine, BBC Radio). She is currently in the special interest group for arts and health in the Royal Society of Public health.
  Cognitive psychology   Health Psychology   music cognition and perception   Music Therapy   positive psychology
Details Date From Date To
Royal Society of Public Health, Special Interest group in Arts and Health 2022 2024
International Association for Music and Medicine, Special interest group in Music and Chronic pain 2022 2024
Elected member of the American Psychology Association (APA), Division 10 Psychology of the Arts Aesthetics and Creativity 2021 2023
Society for Education and Music Psychology Research 2017 2021
Psychological Society of Ireland, Special Interest Group for Media, Arts and Cyberpsychoogy 2013 2019
British Psychological Association 2011 2014
Irish Institute for Radiographers and Radiation Therapists 2008 2009
Jaschke, A., Howlin, C., Pool, J., Greenberg, Y. D., Atkinson, R., Kovalova, A., Merriam,, E., Pallas, I., Williams, S., Moore, C., Hayden, K., Allison, C., Odell-Miller, Baron-Cohen, S., Study protocol of a randomized control trial on the effectiveness of improvisational music therapy for autistic children, BMC Psychiatry, 24, 2024, Journal Article, ACCEPTED  DOI
Howlin C., Walsh R., D'Alton P., Rooney B., How do people with chronic pain choose their music for pain management? Examining the external validity of the cognitive vitality model, Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howlin C., Stapleton A., Rooney B., Tune out pain: Agency and active engagement predict decreases in pain intensity after music listening, PLoS ONE, 17, (8 August), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
LK Fink, LA Warrenburg, C Howlin, WM Randall, NC Hansen, M Wald-Fuhrmann, Viral tunes:changes in musical behaviours and interest in corona music predict socio-emotional coping during COVID-19 lockdown, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, (8), 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howlin C., Rooney B., The Cognitive Mechanisms in Music Listening Interventions for Pain: A Scoping Review, Journal of Music Therapy, 57, (2), 2020, p127 - 167, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howlin, C., Rooney, B., Cognitive Agency in Music Interventions: Increased perceived control of music predicts increased pain tolerance, European Journal of Pain, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howlin C., Vicary S., Orgs G., Audiovisual Aesthetics of Sound and Movement in Contemporary Dance, Empirical Studies of the Arts, 38, (2), 2020, p191 - 211, p191-211 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Musik in Zeiten von COVID-19 in, editor(s)Günther Bernatzky, Gunter Kreutz , Musik und Medizin. Chance für Therapie, Prävention und Bildung, Germany, Springer, 2024, pp343 - 361, [Howlin, Claire; Niels C. Hansen], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Howlin C., Rooney B., Patients choose music with high energy, danceability, and lyrics in analgesic music listening interventions, Psychology of Music, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
The Health Benefits of Art Experience in, editor(s)M Skov, M Nadal , The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics, 2022, pp410 - 422, [Claire Howlin], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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C Howlin, E Quinn, J Jones, Identifying the art of wellbeing: The experiences and impacts of Entelechy Arts' Staying Connected Programme, Dublin Ireland, Entelechy Arts, July, 2022, p1 - 40, Report, PUBLISHED
Howlin, C*. Fink, L.*, Randall, W., Warrenburg, L., Wald-Fuhrmann, M. and Hansen, N. C, Music as a tool for socio-emotional coping during Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. , SEMPRE Conference 'The role of music psychology research in a complex world', Leeds, 9th - 11th September, 2020, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Orgs, O., Howlin, C. , Music Dance interactions. , Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics., University of Toronto, Canada, 30 August- 2 Septemb, 2018, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Mc Cluskey, R., Walsh, A, Howlin, C., Cassidy, D., Muldoon, K., Byrne, G., Developing a questionnaire-based tool to assess the support needs and current practices of PHNs who provide support to breastfeeding mothers., Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference , Dublin, Ireland, March , 2021, Poster, PRESENTED
Fink, L., Warrenburg, L. A., Howlin, C., Randell, W. M., Hansen, N. C., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Viral Tunes: Changes in musical behaviours and interest in coronamusic predict socio-emotional coping during COVID-19 lockdown, PsyArchiv, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College University of Cambridge January 2023
Travel Award, from International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, and Society for Education in Music Psychology Research to present an oral and poster presentation in Tokyo, Japan 2023
Public Engagement Award, Participatory Research England, to support a sharing event with our community arts partners Entelechy Arts, at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, London 2022
UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Scholarship, to complete a four year PhD programme 2016 - 2020
Awarded SEMPRE Conference award to attend and present my research at the international student conference for systematic musicology at Berlin, Germany Sep 2019
Conference Award from the Society for Education and Music Psychology Research to present my research at the 10th triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music, in Graz, Austria May 2018
Awarded SEMPRE Conference award to attend and present my research at the international student conference for systematic musicology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Jun 2018
Graduate Research and Innovations Fund award from the school of social sciences in University College Dublin to present my research at the European society for the cognition of music's 10th triennial conference, in Gräz, Austria. July 2018
Graduate Research and Innovations Fund award from College of Social Sciences in University College Dublin to present at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Ghent, Belgium. Aug 2017