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Professor Gwen Moore, PFHEA

B.Mus.Ed, MA, PhD (Music Education), ALCM, GRIAM, PFHEA
Professor of Music Education

• Phone: +353 61 204945
• Email: Gwen.Moore@mic.ul.ie
• Location: C105

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Gwen Moore is the first Full Professor of Music Education in Ireland. She was the fourth Irish person to be elected to the Executive Board of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) since its foundation in 1953 and from 2020-24, she chaired ISME's Standing Publications Committee. Nationally, she was elected to serve three terms as Chair of the Society for Music Education in Ireland (2013-17; 2022-24) and she successfully secured the patronage of the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins during her tenure. She has extensive experience in HE leadership and music education which spans three decades in a variety of sectors and contexts including primary, secondary and higher education. Gwen has been involved in several funded projects and is published widely in edited books, international peer-reviewed journals in addition to multimedia publications (EZ Guitar for RTÉ Television) and a discography as a guitarist, singer, arranger and composer. 

As Senior Editor of the ISME Routledge Book Series and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Music Education, she collaborates with editors and authors from around the globe in music education research. In her role as Institutional Director of Teaching & Learning from 2016-2023, she provided strategic leadership in the development of Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Feedback across the College and at National level. In 2023, Gwen was awarded a Principal Fellowship of the HEA for her leadership in academic practice and music education nationally and internationally.

Teaching Experience/Programme Involvement

• Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice
• B Ed Bachelor of Education
• PME Professional Master of Education
• MA in Music Education
• M Ed Master of Education
• Structured PhD (Education)

Funding Awards (External)

1. National Forum (Strategic Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, 91��Ƭ��) 2022 €165,000
2. National Forum (Next Steps for Teaching & Learning in HE, 91��Ƭ��) 2021 €25,000
3. National Forum (Strategic Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, 91��Ƭ��) 2020 €99,000
4. National Forum (Strategic Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, 91��Ƭ��) 2019 €124,000
5. HEA Innovation & Transformation Fund, 2019, (UL, 91��Ƭ��, LIT) €1,412,970 Regional Enterprise-Academic Partnership (REAP), Building capacity by engaging practitioners in designing and delivering online and blended learning
6. National Forum (Teaching Enhancement Fund), 2018. (91��Ƭ��, UL, LIT) €150,000 Professional Development Capacity Building in Higher Education: Extending Provision for National Impact through a Flexible Pathways Approach
7. National Forum, 2017 €10,000 All Aboard 2017.
8. National Forum, 2017 €5,000, Discipline Specific Network, 2017.
9. SCoTENS, 2017, (91��Ƭ��, DCU, Stranmillis UC) £3,750, Cross-border explorations of music in initial teacher education.
10. National Forum (Teaching Enhancement Fund), 2016.(NUIG, 91��Ƭ��, UL, DCU)  €150,000 Crannóg – Professional Development for Senior Managers in HE
11. National Forum (Teaching Enhancement Fund), 2016.(UL, 91��Ƭ��, LIT)  €75,000. Professional Development Capacity Building in the Shannon Consortium
12. Irish Research Council, New Foundations Award 2015. €10,000. Musical Futures in Ireland: Establishing a National Network and Pilot Study.

Editor Roles  & Boards

1. 2024- 30   Co-Editor, International Journal of Music Education, Sage.
2. 2022-25    Series Editor, ISME Book Series, Routledge.
3. 2021 –        Editorial Board, Irish Educational Studies, Routledge.
4. 2021 –        Editorial Board, Journal of Popular Music Education, Intellect Books.
5. 2020-24    Chair, International Society for Music Education (ISME) Publications Committee.
6. 2020 -       Editorial Board, Studies in Irish Music Education (CUP Press).
7. 2019 –       Editorial Board, Music Education Research, Routledge.
8. 2019 –       Editorial Board, British Journal of Music Education, Cambridge University Press.
9. 2017 –       Editorial Board, Popular Musics Matter, Rowman & Littlefield.
10. 2016 –24  Editorial Board, International Journal of Music Education, Sage.

Selected Publications

Foster, W., Gannaway, D.and Moore, G. (2025).  London: Advance HE.

Aróstegui, J., Lopez, G., Serrano, R., Moore, G. (2025) Research Perspectives on Music Education in Ibero-America, London and New York: Routledge. 

Moore, G. (2025). What does music education research in and of Ibero-America add to prevailing international discourse? A view from the outside, in Aróstegui, J., Lopez, G., Serrano, R., Moore, G., (Eds.)  Research Perspectives on Music Education in Ibero-America, London and New York: Routledge. 

Mogadime, D., Moran, R., Moore, G., Rizvi, M., Gratacos, G., Special Issue Editors, Women in Teacher Education:Gendered Stories of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, Frontiers in Education (Teacher Education).

Moore, G., O’Flynn, J., Burgess, F., Moore, J. (2023). Challenges for Music in Initial Teacher Education and in Schools: Perspectives from Music Teacher Educators in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Research Studies in Music Education, online first.

Moore, G. (2023). Popular Music in the Academy? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ideology in Higher Education, in Vidulin, S (Ed). Music pedagogy in the context of present and future changes 8. Pula: University of Pula.

Moore, G. (2023). The Music Education National Debate (MEND): Contested legacies, pivotal conversations and future aspirations, in O'Flynn, J & Flynn, P. (Eds.) Studies in Irish Music Education Vol (1). Cork: Cork University Press.

Moore, G. (2022). Revealing Assumptions and Ideologies about the Place of Irish Traditional Music in Education through Historical Methods and Critical Discourse Analysis, Research Commission, International Vistas of Music Education Research.

Buchborn, T., Burnard, P. David G. Hebert, D.G & Moore, G. (2022) Reconfiguring music education for future-making: how?, Music Education Research, 24:3, 275-281, DOI: 

O’Flynn, J., Moore, G., Burgess, F., Moore, J. (2022). Music and Initial Teacher Education in Ireland and Northern Ireland I: Comparative Music Education as Conduit for Dialogue and Reflection, Music Education Research, 24:3, 364-376, DOI: .

O’Brien, E., Moore, G., Costelloe, L. and O'Sullivan, Í. (2022).  Professional development practices and preferences in Irish Higher Education: insights from a regional survey. International Journal of Academic Development, DOI: 

O’Brien, E, O Sullivan, C., Moore, G. (2022). 'Reflecting on transitioning from traditional to blended programmes: 6 critical messages to manage change', in Lawrence, J., Moron-Garcia, S and Senior, R. (Eds.) Supporting Course and Programme Leaders in HE: Practical Wisdom for Leaders, Educational Developers and Programme Leaders, London: Routledge.

Moore, G. (2021). Nurturing Community, Belonging and Inclusion: Reflections and Recommendations from the Specialist Colleges, Insight Report to the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning,

Moore, G. (2021). ‘Fish out of water?’ Musical Backgrounds, Cultural Capital and Social Class in Higher Music Education, in Wright, R.; Johansen, G., Kanellopoulos, P. and Schmidt, P. (Eds). Routledge Handbook of Sociology to Music Education. Abington: Routledge.

Moore, G. (2021). 'Just listen! Developing musical and extra-musical skills using the Musical Futures approach in Irish schools', in Gall, M (Ed) Music Pedagogy in the Context of Present and Future Changes 7, Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, ISBN: 978-953-8278-62-4.

Moore, G., O’Flynn, J., Burgess, F. Moore, J. (2020). Music and Initial Teacher Education in Ireland and Northern Ireland: A Study of Provision, Attitudes and Values. A Report for the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South (SCoTENS),  

Moore, G. (2019). Musical Futures in Ireland: Findings from a Pilot Study in Primary and Secondary Schools, Music Education Research. Vol:21: 3.   

Moore, G. (2018). ‘Bread and Roses’: A song of protest or hollowed out resistance? In Power, M., Devereux, E., Dillane, A., Haynes, A. Songs of Social Protest. Rowman and Littlefield: London. 

Moore, G. & Green. L. (2018).&�Բ�����;‘Sociology and Music Education/Music Soziologie’. In Dartsch, M., Knigge, J., Niessen, A., Platz, F., and Stoger, C.  (Ed) German Handbook on Music Education. Walser Publications.

Moore, G. (2016). Our Many Possible Selves in Music, Journal of Music in Ireland, 

Moore, G. (2015). The Changing Landscape of Irish Higher Music Education: Findings from Policy and Practice. Technical Report: .

Moore, G. (2014). ‘Mind the gap: privileging epistemic access to knowledge in the transition from Leaving certificate to higher music education’. Irish Educational Studies Vol: 33: 3, 249-268.

Moore, G. (2012). ‘Tristan chords and random scores’: exploring undergraduate students' experiences of music in higher education through the lens of Bourdieu’ Music Education Research Vol 14:1, 63-78.

Moore, G. (2011). ‘Socio-cultural perspectives on multicultural music education: reappraising the content of music curricula’, in O’Flynn, J. (Ed). Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, 91��Ƭ��, 5 – 9 July 2009. 

Moore, G. (2009). ‘Western classical music and music education in Ireland: harmony or hegemony?’ Proceedings of the 6th Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter.

Conference Presentations

Invited Speaker: Moore, G. 2024. Publishing and Disseminating your Research, ISME Student Chapter, Helsinki, 31 July 2024.Moore, G. 2022. Revealing Assumptions and Ideologies about the Place of Irish Traditional Music in Education through Historical Methods and Critical Discourse Analysis, International Society for Music Education, Research Commission, 11-15 July, 2022.

Moore, G. 2024. Advocacy for Music Education in Secondary Schools: A Survey of Curriculum, Provision and Participation in Ireland, 36th World Conference of the International Society for Music Education, Helsinki, 1 August 2024.

Moore, G. 2024. Publishing and Disseminating your Research, ISME Student Chapter, Helsinki, 31 July 2024.

Moore, G. 2024. “Can you get a degree in that now’?” A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ideologies and Values on the Place of Irish Traditional Music in Higher Education, American Council for Irish Studies Conference, 91��Ƭ��, May 2024.

Moore, G. 2024. Generative AI, Academic Integrity and Assessment in Music Education: Insights from Practice in Teacher Education, Symposium on Music Education, European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) Conference, Dublin 13-17 June 2024.

Moore, G. 2024. Quality frameworks, participation and evidence of social justice in Ireland’s flagship music education programmes, Symposium on Music Education, European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) Conference, Dublin 13-17 June 2024.

Moore, G. 2024. Bread and Roses: A Socio-Musical Case Study of Feminist Resistance, FemFest 91��Ƭ��, 5 March 2024.

Moore, G. 2024. What Counts as Music in Higher Education? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Post-Colonial Ideologies and Musical Value in Ireland, Vernacular and 'Ethnic' Music in Higher Education Conference, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, 16 February 2024.

Moore, G. and Varvarigou, M. (2023) Authentic Assessment and Meaning-Making in Teacher Education: Insights from Practice in Music Education, Academic and Research Integrity Conference Ireland 2023 - University of Galway, 4th – 6th October, 2023.

Keynote Address: Moore, G. 2023.&�Բ�����;‘Unsung Heroes? Reflections on the Importance of Mentoring and Championing Women in Musical Leadership’, 2nd International Women in/and Musical Leadership Conference, , 16 November 2023, AHRC, London/Online.

Keynote Address: Moore, G. 2023. Higher Music Education in Crisis? Problematising Ideologies of  Musical Value, Cultural Capital and Neoliberal Education Policy, X Congreso Nacional de Conservatorios Superiores de Música y VIII Internactional, A Coruna, Spain, 30 November – 3 December, 2023, 

Invited Speaker: Moore, G. 2023. Arts in Education Portal National Conference, 91��Ƭ��, 11th November, 2023.

Moore, G. 2022. Forming a Music Network within ISME, European Association for Music in Schools Conference, Belgrade, Serbia, 18-21 May 2022.

Moore, G. 2022. Dominant Ideologies of Musical Value in the Music Education National Debate (MEND) Report: ACritical Discourse Analysis, Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral Features for Music Education in Ireland. DCU, 21-22 April, 2022.

Moore, G. 2021. Demystifying the Publication Process, Workshop on behalf of ISME at the Pan American Society for Music Education Conference, July, 2021.

Moore, G. 2021. Just Listen! Developing Musical and Extra-Musical Skills using the Musical Futures Approach in Irish Schools, at 7th International Symposium on Music Pedagogy, University of Pula.

Moore, G. 2021. ‘Bread and Roses’: Protest or Resistance? International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, University of Norway.

Moore, G. 2021. Flexible Pathways to Professional Development, VITAL Week Gasta Talk, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.

Moore, G. 2021. Just listen! Developing musical and extra-musical skills using the Musical Futures approach in Irish schools, Seventh International Conference of Music Pedagogues, Pula, Croatia

Moore, G. 2021. ‘Bread and Roses’: A song of protest or hollowed out resistance? Biennial Conference of the International Society for Sociology of Music Education, Oslo, Norway.

O’Brien, E., Ryan, A., Phelan, M., Reale, J., Costelloe, L. Moore, G.  2019. Micro learning: An alternative model of academic professional development. EdTech, Conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 31 May 2019.

Moore, G. 2019. “Bread and Roses”: Performing resistance and meaning-making through collective singing, Mayday Group Colloquium 31, Music Education as Social, Cultural, and Political Action, 19-21 June 2019.

O’Brien, E., Phelan, M., Moore, G. 2019. Providing a problem space for Problem Based Learning using the VLE. EdTech, Conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association Dundalk Institute of Technology, 31 May 2019.

Moore, G. 2019. Fish out of water? Musical Backgrounds, Cultural Capital and Social Class in Higher Music Education, the 11th International Conference on Research in Music Education, 23 -26 April, Bath Spa University, UK.

Moore, G. & O’Flynn, J. 2019. Cross Border Explorations in Music Education: Investigating Provision and Values in Music in Initial Teacher Education in Ireland and Northern Ireland, the 11th International Conference on Research in Music Education, 23 -26 April, Bath Spa University, UK.

Moore, G. 2018. Ideology, Curriculum and Higher Music Education: Examining the Structure/Agency Dialectic for Learning and Teaching. 7th IRMSS, 91��Ƭ�� Limerick

Moore, G. 2018. Cultural Capital, Curriculum and Neoliberal Education Policy: Reconciling the Structure/Agency Dialectic for Learning and Teaching in Higher Music Education, 30th MayDay Symposium, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Moore, G. 2018. Just Play! Piloting the Musical Futures Approach in Irish Primary and Secondary Schools, Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Conference, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Moore, G., O’Flynn, J., Burgess, F., Moore, J. 2018. ‘Exploring provision, attitudes and values in initial teacher education in music in Ireland and Northern Ireland’, 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy Of Music, Dublin, November 2018.

Moore, G. & Quinn, M. 2017. Musical Futures in Ireland: Implications for Policy and Practice', 7th Annual Conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland, 10-11 November 2017, Dundalk Institute of Technology.

Moore, G. 2017. ‘Informal Learning in a Formal Higher Education Context: Insights from Teacher Education for Music Learning, Teaching and Assessment’, Shaping and reshaping the landscape of Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from the Shannon Consortium, University of Limerick, May 30th, 2017. 

Hamilton, M. Moore, G. and Ryan, D. 2017. Developing a Teaching Portfolio - insights gained from a mentoring approach, Shaping and reshaping the landscape of Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from the Shannon Consortium, University of Limerick, May 30th, 2017. 

Moore, G. 2016 How Irish Popular Musicians Learn. 6th Annual Conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland. Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, University of Limerick, 4-5 November 2016.

Moore, G. 2016. Popular Musicians' Attitudes, Values and Beliefs to Music Learning and Teaching in Ireland,  32nd ISME World Conference on Music Education, Glasgow, Scotland, 25-29 July 2016.

Moore, G, Lennon, M, O’Flynn, J. Marx, W, McCormick, S, Kelleher, D. 2015.&�Բ�����;‘Challenges, Possibilities and Future Directions for Higher Music Education: Continuing the Conversation’, Symposium presented at 5th Annual Conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland, 7-9 November 2015, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.

Moore, G. 2015. 'What Counts as Knowledge in Higher Music Education? Problematising Cultural Capital, Curriculum and Education Policy in the Neoliberal Era', 9th Research in Music Education International Conference, University of Exeter, 7-11 April 2015.

Moore, G. 2015. 'The Changing Landscape of Irish Higher Music Education: Findings from Policy and Practice', Symposium on Music in Higher Education, 1 April, the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.

Moore, G., O’Keeffe, M., Morrin, A. 2014. ‘Exploring Children’s Literature through the Arts’, Buzzing with Books Conference, 91��Ƭ��, Limerick, 22 May 2014.

Leavy, A., Hourigan, M., Moore, G., O’Sullivan, C.; Devaney, E. 2013. ‘Fusing Content and Pedagogy: Facilitating the growth of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Pre-Service Teacher Education’. Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Radisson Hotel, Limerick, 21-23 March 2013. 

Moore, G. 2013. ‘Mind the gap: investigating conceptions of curriculum and knowledge in the transition from Leaving Certificate to Higher Music Education’. Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Radisson Hotel, Limerick, 21-23 March 2013.  

Moore, G. 2013. ‘Musical Value and the De-Valuing of Music: Exploring Student and Lecturer Perceptions of Knowledge in Higher Music Education’. 8th Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter, UK 9-13 April 2013.

Moore, G. 2013 Musical value, ideology and knowledge: troubling access and opportunity in Irish higher music education, 8th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, Hedmark University, Norway, 16-19 June 2013. 

Moore, G. 2013. Musical value, the curriculum and higher music education: investigating student and lecturer conceptions of knowledge at undergraduate level. 11th Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland Annual conference, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 21-23 June 2013. 

Moore, G. 2013. ‘Unequal access and opportunity in Irish higher music education: implications for policy and practice’. 3rd Annual Conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland. St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, November 1-3. 

Moore, G. 2012. ‘Bête Noire’? Exploring the Continuum from Leaving Certificate Music to Higher Education. 10th Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 15-17 June 2012.

Moore, G. 2010. ‘Socio-cultural perspectives on multicultural music education: Implications for curriculum design and implementation’. European Association for Music in Schools Conference, Bolu, Turkey, 26 – 29 April 2010. 

Moore, G. 2010.  “I’m not musical”: Tracking primary student teachers’ perceptions of their musicality within initial teacher education. Society for Musicology in Ireland Annual Conference, University of Ulster, Derry, 7 – 9 May 2010. 

Moore, G. 2010. ‘Exploring the social reproduction of musical value and unequal musical opportunity in higher education’. Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Dundalk, 25 – 27 March 2010.

Moore, G. 2010. ‘Socio-cultural perspectives on multicultural music education: Implications for curriculum design and implementation’. European Association for Music in Schools Conference, Bolu, Turkey, 26 – 29 April 2010. 

Moore, G. 2009. ‘Western classical music and music education in Ireland: harmony or hegemony?’ 6th Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter, UK, 14 – 18 April 2009. 

Moore, G. 2009. ‘Socio-cultural perspectives on multicultural music education: reappraising the content of music curricula’, 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, 91��Ƭ��, 5 – 9 July 2009. 

Moore, G. 2009. ‘Music Education in Higher Education in Ireland: Harmony or Hegemony?’ in Summary Proceedings of the 6th Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter, UK, 14 – 18 April 2009. 

Moore, G. 2007. ‘Multicultural music education and second level education’. Annual Conference of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Cavan, Ireland, 13 April 2007. 

Research Supervision

1. 2025   June Robbins (PhD) Music Education (Current)
2. 2025   Shauna O'Doherty (Doctorate in Educational Psychology)
3. 2023   Stephen Lane (PhD) Music Education (Current)
4. 2022   Aoife Chawke (PhD) Music Education, Piano Pedagogy
5. 2022   Edmond Gubbins (PhD) Music Education, Non-formal learning in primary music education
6. 2023.  Elaine Clarke (MA) Exploring Musical Futures Approaches to Collaborative Composition: A Case Study Within An Irish Primary School.
7. 2017   Kate Hurley (MA) Extra-curricular Participation in a Primary School Choir: Exploring Children's Social, Emotional and Musical Development in a DEIS Context.
8. 2017. Orla McEvoy (MA) Musical Routines: Promoting positive Behaviour, a sense of Time, and Motivation for Learning in an Infant Classroom.
9. 2017. Fergal Moore (MA) Investigating Student and Teacher Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the Performance Strand of Junior Cycle Music.
10. 2017. Shane Cunniffe (MA) Assessing Performance in Junior Cycle Music: Investigating the Influence of Teachers' Backgrounds and Experiences on the Teaching and Assessment of  the Performance Strand.
11. 2016. Ivan O’Connor (MA) Primary teachers’ beliefs on popular music in the classroom.
12. 2016. Tyler Johnson (MA) Undergraduate students’ experiences of music teaching and learning.
13. 2016. Stephen Massey (MA) Investigating adult learners’ experiences of music education.
14. 2015. Shauna McCullough (MA)Teaching and Learning in the Group Instrumental Lesson: An Exploration of the Irish Context'.
15. 2015.  Alison Looney (MA) 'Perceptions of Gender Stereotypes and Instruments in an Irish Concert Band'.
16. 2013.  Michelle Creed (MA) ‘An investigation of the impact of social and cultural influences on students’ expectations, attitudes and experiences of second level music education’.
17. 2012.  Shane Greene (M.Ed) ‘Exploring the goals of the National Children’s  Children-Their Lives (2000) through the implementation of a choral music-making project at primary level’.
18. 2012.  Ciara Doyle (MA) ‘Primary Teachers’ experiences of and attitudes to multicultural music education: a case study of urban and rural contexts’.
19. 2012.  Karen Vaughan (MA) ‘Exploring the teaching and learning of Irish Traditional Music and web-based technology in a disadvantaged primary school context’.
20. 2006.  Carmel Thynne (M.Ed) ‘Exploring the value of music technology in the Irish primary school on music education and practice: A case study’.