Venue: Irish World Academy and Online
The Irish World Academy is home to over 50 postgraduate research students, the vast majority of whom engage in PhD research, alongside a small cohort of MA by Research students. Some of our doctoral researchers are completing projects with traditional, text-based outputs, while others are registered on the PhD in Arts Practice. While students on the PhD in Arts Practice produce text-based research outputs, their work specifically includes aspects of practice. The work of both groups of researchers reflects the whole range of expertise represented in the Academy and beyond. Once a year, the work of this exceptionally rich research community is showcased in a series known as Samhain. This year, presentations will occur online and in-person from the 3rd -7th of November.
Monday 3rdNov 2025 (online )* | 10.30 – 12.00 | TING | Cecelia | Lived Experiences of Ritual Music and Gregorian Chant in Chinese Methodist Churches of the Sarawak Region, Malaysia | ||
| BUSIR | Ala | Challenging Stereotypical Representations of Muslim women through Arts Practice. | ||||
| SANDER | Naomi | An Arts Practice investigation into the Impact of Dalcroze Eurythmics on Preparedness in the Professional Life of a Classical Violinist | ||||
| 12.00 – 1.00 | DUNNE | Lisa | “The New Strung Harp”: Innovation of Tradition in the Music of Máire Ní Chathasaigh | |||
| KELLY | Colm | Harmonising Identities: Bridging Musical Genre through Personal Narratives | ||||
| Tuesday 4thNov 2025 | SESSION 3 | 10.30 – 12.00 | DALY | Kate | A Community Musician's Arts Practice Investigation to Understand, Identify and Develop Safe Singing Spaces in the Context of an Addiction Recovery Continuum | |
| HOERLLE | Rodrigo | Developing Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching the Micro-Rhythms in Brazilian Samba Music | ||||
| McFADDEN | Celsey | Autoethnographic Encounters with Machine Learning | ||||
Lunch | ||||||
| SESSION 4 | 2.00 – 4.00 | NEDA | Nikolic | The Global Frula: The creative process in a cross-cultural setting | ||
| REESE | Laura | Celtic influences and meaning in Renaissance Faire music | ||||
| GUHA | Sarbik | An Arts Practice Investigation of Songwriting as an Under-Explored Participatory Method in Migrant Health Research | ||||
| KUNDU | Srijaa | Dancing the Currents of Migration: An Arts Practice Research Inquiry | ||||
Wednesday 5th Nov 225 | ||||||
| SESSION 5 | 10.30 – 12.30 | PANTELIDOU | Kyriaki | Developing a Family-Centred and Resource-Oriented Music Therapy Programme for Neonates and their Caregivers in Neonatal Care | ||
| HEALY | Hannah | Giving Grief a voice - using music therapy to support children experiencing grief | ||||
| ALLEY | Sarah | Music Therapy and Child Mental Health at School: The Role of Music Therapy in Reducing Behaviours of Anxiety with Children who have Experienced Trauma | ||||
| SWANEPOEL | Իé | “It has to be larger than life!”: An Arts Practice Enquiry into the Shared, Experiential Communication of a Performing Musician | ||||
Lunch | ||||||
| SESSION 6 | 2.00 – 3.30 | HUANG | Kexin | An Arts Practice Exploration of how the Female Originated Chinese Script of Nüshu can Illuminate Chinese Feminist Principles in Contemporary Dance | ||
| NOVALINDA | Sherli | The Body Narrative in Indonesian Contemporary Dance: An Arts Practice Investigation of Choreographic Practice | ||||
| BRANDSTETTNER | Marianne | An Arts Practice Investigation of Dynamic Cultural Positionality from the Perspective of a Western Educated Classical Violinist | ||||
Please note there is a lunchtime concert on Thursday as part of SAMHAIN