Curriculum Vitae

Hazel Aileen van der Walle

PhD Researcher · Music & Imagination · Durham University
hazel.a.van-der-walle@durham.ac.uk  ·  Durham staff page  ·  ORCID

Education

PhD in Music

2024 – present

Durham University

Thesis: Music & Imagination: An Empirical Mixed-Method Venture into Music-Influenced Mental Content.

M.Sc. in Music, Mind & Brain

2022 – 2023

Goldsmiths University of London

Project: Investigating the experience of liveness in aesthetic judgements of recorded music.

B.A. (Hons) in Theology, Music & Worship

2019 – 2022

London School of Theology

Dissertation: Illuminating The Harmonious Unity of Reality: A Theological and Musical Perspective on the Experience of Synaesthesia.

Publications

van der Walle, H. A., Margulis, E. H., Jakubowski, K. (2026). Basslines, Bodies, and Beehive Haircuts: What do we think about when we listen to music? PsyArXiv [Preprint] doi →

Wolsink, L., Manduch, P., Licata, A. E., van der Walle, H. A., Vornhagen, J. B., Sharma, H., Ngiam, W. XG., Muhoozi, M., Marmyleva, A. & Jaquiery, M. (2026). Ten Simple Rules for Running a ReproducibiliTea Journal Club. MetaArXiv [Preprint] doi →

van der Walle, H. A., Wu, W., Margulis, E. H., Jakubowski, K. (2025). Thoughtscapes in music: An examination of thought types occurring during music listening across 17 genres. Psychology of Music. doi →

van der Walle, H. A., Wu, W., Margulis, E. H., Jakubowski, K. (2025). MUSIFEAST-17: MUsic Stimuli for Imagination, Familiarity, Emotion, and Aesthetic STudies across 17 genres. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7), 1–26. doi →

Rai, L., van der Walle, H. A., Painting, J., & Orgs, G. (2024). Experiencing liveness from recorded music. [Preprint] doi →

Conferences & Presentations

Select Papers Presented

2026, Apr.   Basslines, Bodies, & Beehive Haircuts [Paper]. SEMPRE, Cambridge, UK.

2025, Jul.   MUSIFEAST-17 [Poster]. ICMPC18, São Paulo, Brasil.

2025, Jun.   Thoughtscapes in music [Paper]. SysMus25, Oslo, Norway.

2024, Oct.   Jakubowski, K., van der Walle, H. A., Wu, W. — Stimulus and Listener Factors Impact Music-Evoked Imaginings [Conference]. Music-Evoked Imaginings Workshop, Princeton, US.

2024, Jul.   Experiencing liveness from recorded music [Poster]. ESCOM12, York, UK.

Invited Talks

2026, Sep.   van der Walle, H. A. — ReproducibiliTea: Open Research community building from grassroots to global growth [Session]. OpenFest, University of Sheffield, UK.

2025, Jun.   van der Walle, H. A., Kirts, C. — ReproducibiliTea: Discipline-specific resources and steering committee insights [Session]. UKRN Local Network Lead Retreat, LSE, UK.

Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Grade 6

2025 – 2026

Durham University — Music & Science, Level 2 Undergraduate

Plan, prepare, and deliver tutorials and lectures; guide students in practical demonstrations; assist in supervision of student projects.

Methods & Skills

Statistics & Experimental Design

R HTML / CSS Shiny Plotly PsychoPy Gorilla Prolific Qualtrics Stimulus set curation Online studies

Methods & Techniques

Thematic analysis Qualitative coding Multi-coder reliability Co-occurrence networks Content analysis MAXQDA / NVivo NLP Semantic similarity Python Git / GitHub

Honours & Awards

John Simpson Greenwell Memorial Fund

2025

£2,000 · Point North

SEMPRE Conference Award

2025

£200 · Royal Northern College of Music

Academic Interest Fund

2025

£400 · Durham University Student Union

Postgraduate Research Activity & Professional Development Fund

2025

£200 · Durham University

SEMPRE Conference Award

2024

£400 · York University

Service

Professional

  • · Advisory Board Member, ReproducibiliTea (2025–present)
  • · Journal Reviewer, Music & Science, SEMPRE / Sage (2026, Apr.)
  • · Journal Reviewer, Durham Undergraduate Research in Music & Science (DURMS) (2024–2026)
  • · Steering Committee Member, ReproducibiliTea (2024–2025)
  • · Abstract Reviewer, SEMPRE, RNCM (2025, Mar.)

Department / University

  • · Music Department PhD Student Representative, Durham University (2024–2026)
  • · Music Psychology Graduate Student Representative, Goldsmiths (2022–2023)
  • · Music Department Student Representative, London School of Theology (2019–2022)

Professional Associations

  • · ReproducibiliTea — Global Open Science initiative (2024–present)
  • · European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) (2024–present)
  • · Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) (2024–present)
  • · Centre for Research into Inner Experience, Durham University (2024–2026)