Dr. Niamh Nicghabhann

Professional Activities

Award

• 2019 - New Foundations Grant Strand 2
• 2017 - Publication grant from TRIARC: the Irish Art Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin
• 2016 - Publication grant from Irish Cistercians
• 2015 - Research grant from Limerick County Council for work on Limerick 2020 bid
• 2015 - Publication grant from the Office of Public Works
• 2015 - Publication Grant from the National Monuments Service
• 2015 - Gradireland Best New Postgrad Course Award
• 2015 - Funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for the Designing Commemoration conference
• 2015 - NUI Publication Grant
• 2014 - Marc Fitch Foundation
• 2014 - HSE project grant for World Within Walls
• 2014 - CIRCUS+ ERASMUS+ Award
• 2014 - Exhibition development grant for WATERMARK
• 2013 - Monastic Ireland - Research Grant from Failte Ireland
• 2013 - Seed Funding Award - Innovation and the Humanities
• 2012 - Graduate Certificate in Innovation, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Scholarship
• 2010 - Trinity College Dublin Travel Fund Award
• 2009 - Desmond Guinness Scholarship Award
• 2008 - Irish Research Council Posgraduate Scholarship
• 2006 - Homan Potterton Award
• 2003 - Trinity College Dublin Foundation Scholarship Award
• 2003 - Anne Crookshank Award

Association

• 2019 Committee member, Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
• 2012 Member of editorial board, Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy

Committee

• 2016 Judging panel, 2016 Allianz Business to Arts awards, The Allianz Business to Arts Awards recognise and champion the spirit of collaboration between businesses, artists and arts organisations that develop creative partnerships; bringing the arts and artists into mutually beneficial relationships across society.
• 2016 Technology Enhanced Learning committee, Irish World Academy nominee to the TEL committee overseeing developments and upgrades with SULIS
• 2015 Light Moves Screen Dance Festival - advisory board, Member of group advising on the development of the Light Moves Screen Dance Festival, based at Dance Limerick.
  
• 2015 Irish Museums Association, Member of the Board of Directors.
• 2015 Research Academic Panel (RAP) Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Reviewing incoming PhD and MA by research applications, leading and working collaboratively on initiatives surrounding research direction, strategy and supports within the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
• 2015 Cultural Policy Research Observatory - An all-Ireland network - initial steering group member, Member of this steering group which defined the direction of this new cross-disciplinary research network, designing the initial conference held in Belfast in November 2015.
• 2015 Timetabling Group, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Working on timetabling issues, advising on the purchase of timetabling software, supporting admin staff when the need arises around timetabling issues.
• 2014 Open House Limerick steering group, Member of the Open House Limerick architecture festival steering group
• 2013 'World Within Walls' exhibition steering group, Member, as curator of the exhibition and commissioned historian, of a steering group appointed to manage the World Within Walls project. This comprised members of the HSE, management figures within history and heritage at Monaghan county council, as well as the members of Stair: An Irish Public History Company Ltd. (of which I was a founding director), who had been comissioned to carry out this large, multi-strand research project.
  
• 2012 Artefact - editorial board, Member of the editorial board for Artefact, the journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians

Other

• External examiner for the Postgraduate Research Group Taught Module (MARE700) at the University of Plymouth (2020-2024) External examiner, Technological University Dublin for the BA Contemporary Visual Culture and the BA Creative and Cultural Industries (2019-2022) External Examiner, MA Arts and Heritage Management, Waterford Institute of Technology
  (2014 - 2017)
  
  In my role as external examiner for the MA Arts and Heritage Management at WIT, I am involved in examining all programme assessments, and in reviewing programme content, facilities and research direction. This role involves engagement with the overall curriculum, and an assessment of its position with regard to international standards in the fields of arts management education.
  
  Member of Programme Review panel, BA (Hons) Commercial Modern Music at BIMM Dublin (DIT)
  (March 2016)
  
  As a member of this review panel, I was tasked with assessing all programme content, interviewing students and faculty members, reviewing facilities, and making recommendations regarding the ongoing quality of the programme, and suggestions for future development. I was one of two external review panel members, the other being a music industry representative.
  
  Member, editorial board of the Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy
  (2015-present)
  
  Steering Committee member and affiliate researcher, Cultural Policy Observatory of Ireland
  (2014-present).
  
  Member, editorial board of Artefact, the journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians.
  (2012-2016)
  
  Establishment of LANDscape: history, theory, praxis, practice interdisciplinary research cluster with Dr. Anna Ryan (SAUL) at UL
  (2014 - present)
  
  Member of Limerick2020 research network
  (2014-2016)
  
  During the development of Limerick's bid to be European City of Culture in 2020, I contributed to the campaign by attending a range of meetings and panel discussions on the direction of the bid, assessing tender applications for leadership positions within the campaign on behalf of Limerick City Council, and was involved in the IU Culture Lab project which made a significant contribution to the successfully short-listed bid proposal. During 2014, I was the liaison between the the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and the Limerick 2014 National City of Culture team. I also led the November 2014 'Hackathon' based at Fablab in Limerick's City Centre as part of an audience research initiative around the 2014 Limerick City of Culture. (http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/arts---entertainment/195450/-Hackatho…)
  
  Member of steering group, Open House Limerick (within Limerick City Council)
  (2014)
  
  As a member of the steering group for this architecture festival, organised by Limerick City Council, I was involved in the development of the strategic direction of the festival, the management of volunteers, and developed a seminar aimed at first and second level educators interested in bringing architecture into the classroom.
  
  Contribution to the development of regional and national cultural policy and strategy documents
  (2013-present)
  
  In my role as Course Director of the MA Festive Arts programme, I regularly make submissions and give feedback on regional and national cultu