Kathleen Turner

Dr Kathleen Turner is a singer songwriter, community musician and arts practice researcher at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, with a specific interest in autoethnography and narrative inquiry. Kathleen is the Course Director for the MA Community Music and contributes to a number of other undergraduate and post-graduate programmes at the Academy. Kathleen is currently co-supervising three doctoral candidates in community music and autoethnographic research in the areas of singing and addiction recovery, songwriting practice, and representations of young people’s experience in Ireland’s youth orchestras.