News 24. 8. 2022

New Director of the Irish World Academy

We are delighted to announce that the new Director of the Irish World Academy is Professor Helen Phelan.
Professor Phelan is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work in music, migration, and the use of arts-based research methods. A singer, she is co-founder of the female vocal ensemble Cantoral, specializing in Irish medieval chant. She is the founder of the Singing and Social Inclusion research group and Chair of IMBAS, a national network for artistic research in Ireland. Recent books include her monograph Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Irish with Oxford University Press and The Artist and Academia, co-edited with Graham Welch. She is the HRI cluster lead for PART-IM: Participatory and Arts-Based Methods for involving Migrants in Health Research.

Václav Bernard