PhD candidate at the University of Oslo, with a project investigating how people listen to war through independent sound media. Her research deals with the aural politics and civic practices around alternative sound media communities across Eastern and Central Europe, with a specific focus on Ukraine. 

Following her previous research on community radio and its potential to challenge political apathy in Budapest, her practice operates on the intersection of sound studies and cultural musicology.

Ieva's wider practice involves cultural journalism, creative writing, curating, teaching, and various radio work. She is a recipient of the Lithuanian Art Criticism Awards, a member of The Independent Community Radio Network, a co-curator of a radio festival "Signals2Noise", and an occasional radio show host on various community radio stations in the region, such as Cashmere Radio in Berlin.