6th ENCATC Working Group on Evaluation

Niamh NicGhabhann is the course director of the MA Festive Arts Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Her current research focuses on Irish studies, with an emphasis on the art and architecture of Ireland, concepts of space, memory, performance and the body. She is particularly interested in exploring these concepts through visual images, built landscapes, poetry and prose fiction. She is currently at the beginning of research project focusing on the territories of the Devotional Revolution in Ireland, with an emphasis on religion in public space. She is also working on the subject of respectability in Irish culture. Her current research also includes work on cultural policy, arts management, cultural entrepreneurship and innovation, and ideas of measurement and value in the arts and cultural sector. She is leading research initiatives exploring STEAM and humanities research. She was a member of the the editorial board of Artefact, the journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians, from 2012 to 2016, and she is currently on the editorial board of the Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy.