Hala Jaber is a Palestinian community musician and a classical flute player. She completed She obtained her Ph.D. in Arts Practice (Music) at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, UL (2020). Her PhD research examined community-music approaches and best practices when working in the context of post-conflict migration.
Hala's research interests revolve around understanding how various community music approaches prompts integration, collaboration, and participation.
She completed an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral fellow 2021-2023
investigating the creation of trauma-informed training programmes for community artists working in the context of post-conflict migration. In addition to being a postdoctoral researcher with MUSPACE project With Dr Ailbhe Kenny in Mary Immaculate college 2023-2024.
She is currently working in the Xtreme research project, leading the community music case study.