Doctoral Research
| Name | Supervisor(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Alley | Professor Hilary Moss | Music Therapy and Child Mental Health at School: The Role of Music Therapy in Reducing Behaviours of Anxiety with Children who have Experienced Trauma |
| Anna Banko Szumacher | Dr Kathleen Turner and Dr Eoin Callery | Voicing the Unheard: Choral Music as a Medium for Inclusion, Empowerment, and Sonic Innovation in Community Music Practice |
| Marianne Brandstettner | Dr Matthew Noone | An Arts Practice Investigation of Dynamic Cultural Positionality from the the Perspective of a Western Educated Classical Violinist |
| Susan Browne | Dr Hannah Fahey de Brún and Dr Triona McCaffrey | Exploring Performer Identity Formation through Performance, Autoethnography, and Person-Centred Practice from the Dual Perspective of a Vocal Performer-Teacher |
| Ala Buisir | Professor Helen Phelan and James Carr | Challenging Stereotypical Representations of Muslim Women through Arts Practice |
| Anthony Cahill | Dr Sandra Joyce | Caoineadh nó Ceiliúradh? Examining the Values of Song-Based Slow Airs held by Irish Traditional Musicians |
| Suzanne Chadwick | Dr Hannah Fahey de Brún and Professor Helen Phelan | Contemporary Cultural Influences on Singing and Pedagogy in Ireland and their Impact on the Perception of Adolescent Voice |
| Miriam Cano | Professor Hilary Moss | Exploring the Potential of Music Therapy as a Non-Invasive Non-Pharmacological Intervention in the Treatment of Chronic Pain |
| Nahelli Chavoya | Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain and Dr Óscar Mascareñas Garza | Imagination as a Locus for Self-expression in Irish Dance |
| Kate Daly | Dr Kathleen Turner and Professor Helen Phelan | A Community Musician's Arts Practice Investigation to Understand, Identify and Develop Safe Singing Spaces in the Context of an Addiction Recovery Continuum |
| Cormac DeBarra | Dr Sandra Joyce | Sustaining the Harp in Ireland: The Culture Bearers of Early-Mid Twentieth Century |
| Lisa Dunn | Dr Sandra Joyce and Dr Niall Keegan | “The New Strung Harp”: Innovation of Tradition in the Music of Máire Ní Chathasaigh |
| Bianca Figl | Dr Jenny Roche | Translating Heritage through Movement Practice |
| Sarbik Guha | Professor Helen Phelan and Professor Anne MacFarlane | An Arts Practice Investigation of Songwriting as an Under-Explored Participatory Method in Migrant Health Research |
| Hannah Healey | Professor Hilary Moss | Giving Grief a Voice: Using Music Therapy to Support Children Experiencing Grief |
| Rodrigo Dalla Favera Hoerlle | Dr Eoin Callery | Developing Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching the Micro-Rhythms in Brazilian Samba Music |
| Kexin Huang | Dr Jenny Roche | An Arts Practice Exploration of how the Female Originated Chinese Script of Nüshu can Illuminate Chinese Feminist Principles in Contemporary Dance |
| Colm Kelly | Dr Sandra Joyce | Harmonising Identities: Bridging Musical Genre through Personal Narratives |
| Svend Kjeldsen | Dr Aileen Dillane | Ethnomusicology Critique, Decentering, and Post-Theoreticism: Towards a Second-Generation Practice Theoretical Approachin Ethnomusicological Research |
| Srijaa Kundu | Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain | Dancing the Currents of Migration: An Arts Practice Research Inquiry |
| Ava Loiacono | Dr Óscar Mascareñas Garza | VOICES: An Arts Practice Exploration of the Cathartic Potential and Pedagogical Application of Puppetry |
| Matteo le Bracco | Dr Matthew No-one | Music, Identity and Metaphysics: An Arts Practice investigation into the musician as synolon |
| Janine Magnin | Dr Hannah Fahey de Brún and Dr Sandra Joyce | Locating Vocal Agency: Investigating Adolescent Girls’ Experiences within Singing Lessons |
| Celsey McFadden | Dr Eoin Callery | Autoethnographic Encounters with Machine Learning |
| Neda Nikolic | Dr Niall Keegan | The Global Frula: The Creative Process in a Cross-Cultural Setting |
| Sherli Novalinda | Dr Jenny Roche | The Body Narrative in Indonesian Contemporary Dance: An Arts Practice Investigation of Choreographic Practice |
| Charlotte O'Donoghue | Dr Kathleen Turner and Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain | An Ethnographic Study Mapping Youth Orchestra Participation in Ireland: Education, Community and Wellbeing |
| Kyriaki Pantelidou | Dr Triona McCaffrey | Developing a Family-Centred and Resource-Oriented Music Therapy Programme for Neonates and their Caregivers in Neonatal Care |
| Jelena Perisic | Dr Eoin Callery and Dr Óscar Mascareñas Garza | Spacetimes They Are A-Changin’: Re-shaping The Notion of Spacetime By Dissolving The Boundaries Between Sound, Music, Visuals And Text |
| Laura Reece | Dr Conor Caldwell | Celtic Influences and Meaning in Renaissance Faire Music |
| JJ Riordan | Professor Mel Mercier and Dr Eoin Callery | Orchestrating the Sonic Banal: Utilising Computer Based Digital Audio Workstations (D.A.W.s) to Manipulate the Sounds of Everyday Objects, Places and Spaces to Compose Musical Works |
| Caoimhe Ní Riain | Dr Niall Keegan | The Role of Notation in the Performance of Classical Music within a Contemporary Context – an Ethnographic Approach |
| Stephen Ryan | Dr Kathleen Turner and Dr Aileen Dillane | Articulating the Fluid Identity of the Songwriting Community Musician in the Field: An Auto-Ethnographic Interrogation of Creative Self-Expression and Self-Preservation |
| Naomi Sander | Dr Triona McCaffrey and Dr Breandán De Gallaí | An Arts Practice investigation into the Impact of Dalcroze eurythmics on Preparedness in the Professional Life of a Classical Violinist |
| Christina Shocklee | Professor Hilary Moss | Adult-Focused Oncology Music Therapy: A Mixed Methods Exploratory Study in Irish Cancer Centres |
| André Swanepoel | Dr Óscar Mascareñas Garza | “It has to be larger than life!”: An Arts Practice Enquiry into the Shared,Experiential Communication of aPerforming Musician |
| Mathuriga Thevapalan | Professor Mel Mercier and Dr Óscar Mascareñas Garza | Exploring Karṇāṭak Improvisation as a Non-Native Learner through Arts Practice Research and Gurukulavāsa |
| Thenuga Thevapalan | Professor Mel Mercier and Dr Aileen Dillane | Becoming a Karṇāṭak Musician: A Non-Native Exploration of Gendered Transnational Identity in the Contemporary Gurukulavāsa |
| Cecilia Ting | Dr Eleanor Giraud and Professor Helen Phelan | Lived Experiences of Ritual Music and Gregorian Chant in Chinese Methodist Churches of the Sarawak Region, Malaysia |
| Yujiao Sun | Dr Jenny Roche | Dance Education from a Cross-cultural Perspective — Interpretations of Intercorporeal Dialogues |
| Ewa Zak Dyndal | Professor Helen Phelan | Performing Rites of Belonging: An Arts Practice Investigation of Ritual, Music, and Experiences of Belonging within the Polish Irish Community |
| Chelsey Zimmerman | Dr Niall Keegan | An Exploration of the Social, Technological, and Artistic Context of Irish Music in Early 20th Century New York City |
