Danielle Treacy

Dr. Danielle Treacy is a University Researcher at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. She is currently working in two research projects: Music Education, Professionalism and EcoPolitics; and Tran­si­tion Path­ways Towards Gen­der In­clu­sion in the Chang­ing Mu­si­cal Land­scapes of Nepal (am­pli­fy­Her). In addition to her work as a researcher, she teaches in the MuTri doctoral school and the Department of Global Music. Danielle holds a Bachelor of Music specialising in music education (University of Toronto), a Bachelor of Education (Queen’s University, Canada), a Master of Arts in education specialising in development and international cooperation (University of Jyväskylä), and a Doctor of Music (Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki). She has previously worked as an elementary school music teacher in Egypt and Singapore, a classroom teacher and English as an Additional Language teacher in Finland, and trumpet, piano, and theory teacher in music institutions in Canada. She has also collaborated and co-authored in the projects Global Visions through Mobilizing Networks; and Learning In and Through the Arts in Higher Education. Treacy has published peer-reviewed international journal articles and book chapters, and presented her work at numerous international conferences. Her contribution to the international community of music educators has also included guest editing a special issue of the Finnish Journal of Music Education (2020 1-2), coordinating the Cultural Diversity in Music Education conference in Helsinki, Finland in 2015, serving on the scientific committee for the Cultural Diversity in Music Education conference in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2019, and being a member of the steering committee and chairing the scientific committee for the ISME South Asia regional conference in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2019. Since 2020, Treacy has been a co-editor of the journal Nordic Research in Music Education.

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