Community music; arts-based research; arts practice research; music and migrant health; arts and wellbeing; arts and data literacy; performance studies; arts and cultural policy. 

Fran Garry is an Assistant Professor in Community Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. She is a community musician, singer/songwriter, and artist researcher with a deep commitment to creative collaboration, inclusion, and social change. Since 2020, she has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Irish World Academy, contributing to projects that use participatory and arts-based methods to engage migrant communities in health research, and, most recently on the Irish Research Council funded Arts, Data Literacy and Diversity (ADD) project, exploring community music as a tool for enhancing data literacy through the arts. With a background in choral leadership, vocal education, collaborative composition, and arts project management, Fran’s practice bridges the worlds of education, community, and academia. Her IRC supported Arts Practice PhD research explored lived experiences in community arts, primarily music and singing, in Ireland. Her individual and collaborative research has been published in the International Journal of Community Music, Transform-New Voices in Community Music, Health Promotion International, PLOS One, HRB Open Research and Social Science and Medicine. Fran is a member of the Participatory Health Research Unit and WHO Collaborating Centre for Participatory Health Research with Refugees and Migrants, School of Medicine and Health Research Institute, U.L.