Dr Sandra Joyce is currently Executive Dean (Interim), Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick.  Previous to this, she was Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, UL, for over 9 years.  

A traditional singer and bodhrán player, she has performed all over the world, most recently in Boston (Harvard University), Milwaukee IrishFest, Washington DC (Walter E. Washington Convention Centre), Beijing (Irish Embassy) and Shanghai (Irish Consulate).  She also performed in recent live-streamed and pre-recorded events for the Blas Summer School/North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2021, as well as for the Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon as part of their series entitled ‘Carry the Tunes.’

Sandra is currently Course Director of the MA Irish Music Studies at the Academy.  Her research interests include the Irish harp and song traditions, historical ethnomusicology and, most recently, environmental humanities.  Together with Helen Lawlor, she is editor of Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp (Four Courts Press, 2016), with a second volume focusing on international harp practices to be published shortly.  Sandra is also a member of the Irish Humanities Alliance Environmental Humanities Working Group.