Research within the Creative Arts is led by the Centre for Music Research “Ionad Taighde Ceoil” and the Creative Media Research Group (CMRG).

Centre for Music Research “Ionad Taighde Ceoil”: This centre provides teaching, research and scholarship, and involvement with community, all of which are interlinked and mutually supportive. It has been committed to developing a strong research ethos underpinning and enhancing all levels of teaching and also to promoting the reputation of the Institute at national and international levels in the discipline area of music. It has also attracted a diverse range of international students. The centre pro-actively contributes to research across a wide range of thematic areas including:

·         Performance Practice

·         Music Technology

·         Composition and Analysis

·         Music Education and Pedagogy

·         Music and Community

·         Ethnomusicology and Musicology

·         Traditional and Folk Music

If you would like to know more about the research activities of the Centre for Music Research please contact: Dr Eibhlis Farrell eibhlis.farrell@dkit.ie

Creative Media Research Group (CMRG): Staff involved in the teaching, creation of, and research into creative media at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) specialise in digital media, one sector of a diverse range of Creative Industries.  The creative media industries span a number of diverse sectors which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent. The ‘creative origination’ that broadly characterizes the creative media industries, plus the potential for experimentation afforded by new media, mean that the digital media sector, which DkIT specialise in, is one of the most dynamic sectors of a knowledge economy. The group’s research is characterized by a mix of pure and applied research. Applied research is made possible by a strong base of practical skills (in, for example, film production, drawing, graphic design, tangible interface design, media production, multimedia authoring, narrative writing or game design).  To-date, the group has created short films, fine-art productions, alternate-reality games, mobile technologies, tangible interfaces and multimedia applications. These artifacts are used to solve practical problems, and to test concepts and design principles. The members are working in the following research areas:

·         Creative Media Content Creation

·         Creative Pedagogies & Transformative Work Practices

·         Creative Technologies

·         Future Communications

·         Media – Culture, Community and Society

·         Media Production

·         New-Media Narrative Forms

If you would like to know more about the research activities of the Creative Media Research Group please contact: Bride Mallon bride.mallon@dkit.ie