Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: Enya.Moore@TUDublin.ie

 

Academic Background

Enya Moore is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Tourism & Hospitality Management. Enya completed her PhD, Design Encounters: A critical examination of design events 2018-2020, at University Technology Sydney, where she analysed contemporary design events and festivals in cities such as Melbourne, Geelong, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and London in 2022. Enya has a BA (Craft Design and History of Art and Design) from the National College of Art and Design (Dublin) and an MA (Design Cultures) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Enya is currently working on the project Festivals Audiences Digital Experience (FADE), led by Dr Bernadette Quinn and Dr Brian Vaughan, alongside Senior Research Assistant Samantha Morris. FADE is funded by the Irish Research Council, under the Collaborative Alliances for Societal Challenges (COALESCE) scheme. The project is analysing the implications of the digital turn for the arts festival sector and assessing future needs.

 

Research Interests:

• Design history and theory
• Design, arts and cultural festivals and events
• Digitisation of festivals and events
• Place-based research methods
• Transdisciplinary research

 

Research projects:

Festivals, Audiences, and the Digital Experience (FADE), funded by the Irish Research Council, under the Collaborative Alliances for Societal Challenges (COALESCE) scheme. 
Twitter: @project_fade

 

Conference Papers/Presentations:

• Rural festivals and digitisation, with Dr. Bernadette Quinn and Samantha Morris, Association of Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS) Annual Conference 2022, 6-9 September 2022, Cork, Ireland.
• Threading Social Connections, with artist Kate O’Shea and Director of CommonGround, Siobhan Geoghegan, Places Matter Conference, An Arts Council and Local Government joint conference, 24-25 May 2022, VISUAL Carlow, Ireland/ Online.
• Doing Business in the Emerging Political Design Economy, 109th College Arts Association Annual Conference (CAA) February 10–13, 2021, Online Conference.
• Creative Exchange: Transnational Networks and the Contemporary Design Festival, Making and shaping things in creative economies: From history to present day, 28-30 November 2019, Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
• Design’s diplomatic turn: Contemporary design festivals as a tool of and for soft power, Design History Society Annual Conference ‘The Cost of Design’, 5-7 September 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

 

Other Research:

• Research Associate: All Hands on Deck: Work, skill and material production at a time of human and environmental calamity, cross-disciplinary symposium, Research Associate, 19-21 July 2023, University Technology Sydney.
• Co-organiser and Host: Networks of Solidarity, four online transnational events, hosted between Ireland and Sydney, May - July 2021. Supported by Common Ground’s The Just City – Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency 2020 – 2021 which is funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council, with additional support from Create.

 

Publications:

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Google Scholar

 

Social Media:

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