Helen Gubbins

Treasurer | Ethnomusicology Ireland 11 Guest Editor

treasurer@ictmd.ie | specialissue@ictmd.ie

Dr Helen Gubbins is an ethnomusicologist and performer with an abiding interest in the interaction of medias and traditional musics. She is also an occasional lecturer, recording artist, and full-time secondary school teacher. Her writing has been published in Ethnomusicology Ireland, British Postgraduate Musicology, and the Routledge popular music edited collection, Made in Ireland. She was recently awarded her PhD by the University of Sheffield on the topic of traditional and folk music on Irish radio 1970-1994, funded by a University of Sheffield Doctoral Academy Scholarship and a National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship. Helen has been a part-time or guest lecturer at University College Cork, University College Dublin, Mary Immaculate College, the University of Sheffield, Newcastle University, and Berea College Kentucky. Helen has made extensive contributions to scholarly and professional societies in Ireland and the UK, most recently as part of the MeCCSA Radio Studies Network, Teachers’ Union of Ireland, and Wicklow Miners branch of CCÉ. Helen worked as Membership and Publications officer of ICTM-IE from 2009-2011. Helen has extensive international performing experience in the realm of Irish traditional music, and more recently in Javanese gamelan and in choral conducting in educational settings.