Victorian Network for Creativity and Wellbeing

🚨 #AMPlify2026 March Seminar: So… Can I Use AI for That? Ethical and Practical AI Use in Music Psychology Research with Dr. Solange Glasser 🗓When: Wednesday 11 March, 4-5pm AEDT 🌐Where: Via Zoom 💻Link to register: eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-2026…

2026 CAWRI Conference — Creating Wellbeing: Youth, Arts, and Mental Health. Bringing together researchers, artists, educators & practitioners to explore how creative practice can support youth mental health through collaboration, co-creation & equity. events.humanitix.com/cawri-conferen…

Summer issue of CAWRI news: announcement of Conference 2026 keynote panellists; Prof Taiwo Afolabi to visit July 2026; perspective from Kim Goodwin - Looking beyond artistic consumption; and a chat with Uncle David Arden Kokatha and Gunditjmara Songman. go.unimelb.edu.au/rj62

Announcing Our Keynote Panellists for CAWRI Conference 2026 Our keynote panellists Michael Anderson (CREATE Centre), Louise La Sala (Orygen) and Craig Rogers (The Push) will bring educational, clinical, and community perspectives to the conversation cawri.com.au/events

#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠 🎶 Creating Wellbeing: Youth, Arts, and Mental Health (CAWRI) | Melbourne, AU (in-person) | 10 April 2026 🎤 Submit proposals before 11:59pm AEDT Friday 6 February 2026 to this link: forms.office.com/r/KHtRAJqz49 🌐 cawri.com.au/events

A very exciting edition of CAWRI enews today! CfP for the CAWRI Conference 2026 Prof Emma Redding at 35th IADMS And a fantastic conversation with Prof Katherine Boydell, Black Dog Institute - Arts-based approaches in mental health research 📷go.unimelb.edu.au/x6n2

September CAWRI news has hit inboxes! New CAWRI publications and a great conversation with Prof Paul Rhodes about his exhibition "Troubled/& beyond" a visual representation of the therapeutic journey, currently showing at @daxcentre go.unimelb.edu.au/b53p

Fascinating study! …cglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

August CAWRI e-news features CAWRI reads recommendation, Music and Dementia and a podcast about Music for Mood Regulation. go.unimelb.edu.au/tf9p

July CAWRI e-news is here - featuring a webinar recording "Enhancing Accessibility to the Arts", details of the upcoming Arts and Peacebuilding Workshop, and a podcast about the fabulous work of Community Music Victoria. go.unimelb.edu.au/6xcp

✨AMPlify 2025 Exclusive ✨: Spotify’s former Data Alchemist, Glenn McDonald 🎶 When: Wednesday 13 August, 9-10am AEST Where: Via Zoom Link to register: eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-2025… If you have any questions in mind for Glenn, comment below! 👇

We had productive writing sessions at our Tuesday and Thursday #SUAW events. 👩‍💻👨‍💻 Thank you to those who have attended so far! Next Tuesday session is on 24 June at 9-11 am AEST via Zoom! See you there! Register here: eventbrite.com.au/e/amps-writing…

June CAWRI e-news is here - featuring new publications about intercultural music engagement and a podcast with Dr Merrick Powell about violently themed music and physical musicality among older adults. go.unimelb.edu.au/854p

New publication - 'Cultivation of global consciousness through intercultural music engagement'. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

Fantastic webinar coming up hosted by @artshealth_net State of the Art policy webinar: where is arts and health policy in Australia up to? events.humanitix.com/create-experts…

Use and effectiveness of the arts for enhancing healthcare students' empathy skills: A mixed methods systematic review. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

May CAWRI enews - including CAWRI research trajectories from 2019 and Creativity Talks podcast Episode 16: Lamine Sonko & Adrian Hearn - West African Drum and Dance for Wellbeing go.unimelb.edu.au/5y8p

🔥#HotOffThePress May Edition🔥 This month we have lots of new papers from our community! You can see below for the list of papers, and a summary here: amps.org.au/2025/04/30/hot… If you have a paper that's just been published or about to be, please reach out!

New open access publication about music on prescription from Forbes et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Some holiday reading in the latest CAWRI news: go.unimelb.edu.au/9iep