She is the director of the Human Cognitive and Sensorimotor Core[1] of the University of Western Ontario's Brain and Mind Institute.

[5] At UWO, she established the Neuroscience and Music Lab[6] at the Brain and Mind Institute with assistance from the Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund in 2012.

[7] In the same year, Grahn was awarded a grant from the Grammy Foundation for her ongoing research in studying how the brain senses and reacts to music.

[9] In 2015, Grahn was promoted to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Psychology and received the 2016 Faculty Scholars Award.

[11] In 2018, Grahn and Robert Zatorre at McGill University were co-recipients of a McGill-Western Collaboration Grant to "create an auditory-oriented multimodal neuroimaging database, giving researchers access to neural circuitry data to test new hypotheses and serve as a baseline for studies involving disorders of hearing.