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UL Graduate Dr. Hala Jaber has been awarded a prestigious GOI postdoctoral research scholarship:

Dr. Hala Jaber is a Palestinian community musician. She obtained her PhD at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, 51±¾É« in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Helen Phelan and Hilary Moss. She is also a graduate of the MA community music programme. Her PhD research examined community music approaches and best practice when working in the context of post-conflict migration. Recent publications include ‘Navigating the borderline: An exploration of emerging borders inside the community-music workshop’, in My Body was Left on the Street: Music Education and Displacement, edited by K.T. Vu. and A. Quadros (2020) and ‘’We are all facing the same problem’: Lived experiences of online participation in the Irish World Music Café community music initiative in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’, with F Garry and H Phelan, International Journal of Community Music, 14:2 (2021).

Dr. Jaber's postdoctoral project is called "Music on the Move: Music as a Tool of Social Inclusion in the Context of Post-Conflict Migration" and will form part of the work of the PART-IM (Participatory and Arts-Based Methods Involving Migrants in Health Research) research cluster led by Prof Helen Phelan and supported by the Health Research Institute.