Research Postgraduates
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance houses many research postgraduates reading for MA by Research and PhDs. Many of these bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience which feeds into the expertise of the Academy as a whole. The following is a list of the Academy's research postgraduate body and their respective thesis titles (A biography of a research postgraduate can be accessed where the postgraduate's name is underlined).
PhD:
(In alphabetical order by surname/firstname)
- Thesis Title: "The effects of a therapeutic dance movement programme on persons with cerebral palsy"
- Supervisors : Dr. Catherine Foley & Dr. Helen Payne
- Thesis Title: 'Continuity and Change in the Teaching and Learning of Traditional Music Performance in Ennis, Co. Clare 1950-1990'
- Supervisors: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Niall Keegan.
- Thesis Title: "Padraig O'Keefe and the Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Tradition"
- Supervisor: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Thesis Title: "I Lár an Aonaigh: Iniúchadh ar an athmhúnlú, an athmhíniú agus an taibhléiriú a déantar ar amhráin dhúchasacha Gaeilge in Éirinn agus in Albain i gcomhthéacs nua-aimseartha, ar bhonn teanga agus ceoil."
(The restructuring, reinterpretation and performance of Irish and Scottish traditional song in a contemporary setting.) - Supervisors: Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire and Prof. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Thesis Title: "Early Professional Development of the Post-Primary School Music Teacher in the Republic of Ireland"
- Supervisors: Professor Graham Walsh (Institute of Education, London) & Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Thesis Title: "Rhythms of Struggle. Txalaparta and Basque Identity"
- Supervisor: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Thesis Title: "Assessing the Music Manuscript of Patrick Joseph MCall, Containing the Tunes to Accompant the Mummer's Play in South-East Wexford."
- Supervisors: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin & Dr. Ruan O'Donnell
Higgins, Lee:
- Thesis Title: "Towards Conceptualisations of Community Music."
- Supervisors: Dr. Helen Phelan & Dr. Patricia Shehan-Campbell
- Thesis Area: Anthroposophical music therapy and possibilities of integration of its methods into other music therapy approaches.
- Thesis Title: "The Life and Music of Turlough O Carolan."
- Supervisor: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Thesis Title: "The Art of Juncture - The Conceptual Organisations of Traditional Irish Musicians."
- Supervisor: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Ledger, Alison:
- Thesis title: Music therapists’ experiences of service implementation in health care settings
- Supervisor: Professor Jane Edwards.
- Thesis Title: "An Examination of a 12th century Missal from Exeter Cathedral: Excl 3515."
- Supervisors: Dr. Helen Phelan & Dr. Emma Hornby.
- Thesis Title: "Analysis of the ornamental procedures of Gregorian and Old Roman Chants"
- Supervisors : Dr. Helen Phelan & Dr. Emma Hornby
- Thesis Title: "A Simulation Study of Irish Traditional Dance Music ."
- Supervisors: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin & Donncha Ó Maidin
- Thesis Title: Percussive Routes - An Investigation into Cape Breton Step Dancing
- Supervisor: Dr Catherine Foley
Mercier, Mel:
- Thesis Title: "The Bones in Irish and American Tradition."
- Supervisor: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
Motherway, Susan:
- Thesis Title: "Mediating the Divide: The Globalisation of Irish Traditional Song Performance."
- Supervisor: Dr. John Morgan O'Connell.
- Thesis Title: "Documenting development and change in competitive Irish Solo Step dance since 1994."
- Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Foley
- Thesis Title: "Paddy Conneely - The Life and Repertoire of an Irish Pre-Famine Piper."
- Supervisors: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Colette Moloney & Nicholas Carolan
- Thesis Title: "The History of Classical and Modern Dance Training in Ireland, 1925 - 1960."
- Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Foley.
- Complete December 2008
- Thesis Title: "Custodians of Culture: A Social, Musicological and Cultural History of the Irish Harp and its Patronage from 1790-1840"
- Supervisor: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Professor Tom Moylan and Dr. Ruan O'Donnell.
- Thesis Title: "The role of the button accordion in Irish Traditional Music."
- Supervisor: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
MA by Research:
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- Thesis Title: "Reconstructing Identity - The Romanian Doina Tradition since
the 1989 Revolution." - Supervisors: Dr John Morgan O'Connell & Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
19 February, 2008
