Established in 2018, Taighde Dámh Chruinne Éireann is a supportive, student-run community for researchers of any discipline who interact, in some capacity, with the arts. Within this community, it is our intention to facilitate discussions, peer review, and problem solve, based on common interest and necessity. We provide an outlet of relief and contemplation for the lives of busy researchers and artists, as well as communicate and share knowledge of forthcoming opportunities of academic engagement in terms of upcoming conferences, workshops, lectures, financial aid, performance interaction, and career advancement.

For the Logos Seminar Series, Taighde Dámh Chruinne Éireann will be running events that partner with Tower Seminars, as well as seminars involving writing, presentation and publishing skills, research dissemination and collaboration through our arts practices, career projection and planning, funding opportunity support – i.e. peer review of grant applications – and arts based academic writing workshops.

TDCE Virtual Coffee Hangouts

Coming soon!

Connect with us via our “Taighde Dámh Chruinne Éireann PhD Research Forum” Facebook group to engage with fellow Academy PhDs, stay up-to-date on upcoming events, and more!

Please reach out to any of our core committee members should you have any questions.

CHARLOTTE O’DONOGHUE, CHAIRPERSON

Charlotte is a PhD candidate in the Irish World Academy of Music at the  University of Limerick. Her PhD research is in the area of youth orchestra participation. This doctoral research was developed through her active involvement and participation in youth orchestras and her extensive experience teaching, leading, and managing in a youth orchestra context. Charlotte holds a Bachelor of Religious Education and Music, as well as a Master of Arts in Music, both from Dublin City University. Charlotte is a qualified secondary school teacher, where she has taught in various educational settings, including DEIS schools, over the last number of years. 

charlotte.odonoghue@ul.ie 

Kate Daly, SECRETARY

Kate is currently undertaking an arts practice PhD at the Irish World Academy. In 2010, Kate completed her B.A in Arts; Music (performance) & English from NUI Maynooth, she received her M.A in Community Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick in 2020.  

Kate is the current Engagement Officer with Sing Ireland; national organization for the support, development and promotion of group singing in Ireland, and she also works as a group singing facilitator on their Song Seeking programme¸ provide access to musical and creative opportunities for people living in temporary accommodation.  

In her homeplace of County Clare, Kate is musical director with the Lismorahaun Singers choir and is a community group singing facilitator for projects with schools, participants with a disability, festival song circles, and people in addiction recovery. 

kate.daly@ul.ie

NAHELLI CHAVOYA, PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

Nahelli Chavoya is a PhD candidate in the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick.  She is a dancer, poet, and dance researcher from Mexico based in Ireland. She has a background in ballet and Irish step dance and she has an interest in creative writing and poetry writing.

Her research focuses on poetry as an engagement of reality through her creative practices as a dancer and a poet-writer. She is interested in investigating the relationship between her practices and exploring the poetry of movement.

Nahelli holds a Bachelor in Hispanic Literature from the University of Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Mexico), and a Master’s in Dance Research from the National Institute National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Mexico City, Mexico).

Nahelli.ChavoyaPena@ul.ie

STEVE RYAN, EVENTS OFFICER

Stephen.TJ.Ryan@ul.ie

Past Conferences

Joint SMI and ICTM- Ireland Postgraduate Conference at UL- January 17-18, 2020

Featured keynote address from Dr. Philip Bohlman, “Lifted Up from the Earth at the Very Moment of Death”: The Border, the Wall, and the Musical Topography of Migration Crisis.

Past Logos Seminars

“The Alternative Universe We Create” – February 14, 2024

Vaughan Fleischfresser

“Transdisciplinary practice-led research: Artistic research that slides across disciplinary borders” – November 4, 2023

Dr. Alys Longley (University of Auckland)

“Refining Your Research Process” – November 4, 2021

AHSS librarian Pattie Punch.

“Applying for the Irish Research Council Scholarship”- October 1, 2020 

“Post-Doctoral Pathways”- April 16, 2020

Dr. Matthew Noone and Prof. Mel Mercier

“Approaching the Viva Voce”-March 26, 2020

Dr. Hannah Fahey, Dr. Mats Melin, and Dr. Catherine Foley

“Composing the Mongrel: an arts practice exploration of hybridity”

Dr. Matthew Noone

“Jewish song and singing – inside and outside the synagogue”

“Samhain Presentation Prep”

Facilitated by Dr. Eleanor Giraud

“Ethics in Research”

Dr. Orfhlaith NiBhriain

“Samhain Presentation Prep”– October 24, 2019

Peer panel, facilitated by Dr. Eleanor Giraud

“Time-Tone-Tune- From South Indian Music perspective”- October 3, 2019

Dr. Karaikudi S. Subramanian

 “Jumping In: How to Hit the Postgrad Ground, Running”- September 26, 2019

Facilitated by TDCE Founding Members

“Applying for the Irish Research Council Scholarship”

Facilitated by previous applicants

“The Writing Process: Tips, Tricks, and Perspectives”

Dr. Aileene Dillane; Dr. Catherine Foley

“Stretch and De-Stress”

Ana Camillo

“Pitching your Research and Preparing for Thesis in Three”

ANTHONY CAHILL, CHAIRPERSON, 2020 – 2023

COLM KELLY, SECRETARY, 2020 – 2023

MORGAN SENTER, PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, 2020 – 2023

ANA CAMILLO, CHAIRPERSON, 2018-2020

HALA JABER, SECRETARY, 2018-2020

CIARA THOMPSON, PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, 2018-2020

FELIX MORGANSTERN, EVENTS MANAGER, 2018-2020