Staff profile
Overview

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Lecturer in the Department of Sociology | Room 207, 32 Old Elvet |
Publications
Book review
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2022). Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power. Sociological Research Online 27(2): 533-534.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2022). Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Work, Employment and Society 36(5): 988-990.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh & Ruwanpura, Kanchana N. (2021). To exist is to resist: Black feminism in Europe. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 28(4): 599-603.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2020). Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family. LSE Review of Books
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2016). Under New Public Management: Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work. Qualitative Research 16(6): 738-739.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2015). Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies. Sociology 49(6): 1232-1233.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2013). Everywhere and Nowhere: The State of Contemporary Feminism in the United States. Sociological Research Online
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2013). Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies. Irish Journal of Sociology 21(1): 117-119.
Chapter in book
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2018). Feel the Fear and Killjoy Anyway: Being a Challenging Feminist Presence in Precarious Academia. In Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures. Taylor, Yvette & Lahad, Kinneret Palgrave Macmillan. 163-189.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh, Crowley, Muireann & Wånggren, Lena (2016). Feminist Work in Academia and Beyond. In Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges. Thwaites, Rachel & Pressland, Amy Palgrave Macmillan. 215-235.
- Bancroft, Angus, Karels, Martina, Murray, Órla Meadhbh & Zimpfer, Jade (2014). Not Being There: Research at a Distance with Video, Text and Speech. In Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research. Hand, Martin & Hillyard, Sam Emerald Publishing Limited. 13: 137-153.
Journal Article
- Schwoerer, Lili & Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2022). Against Reform and Defence: Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Praxis in, against, and beyond the Neoliberal University. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education 4(2): 21-40.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh Chiu, Yuan-Li Tiffany Wong, Billy & Horsburgh, Jo (2022). Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK. Sociology 0(0): 1-18.
- Wong, Billy, Chiu, Yuan-Li Tiffany, Murray, Órla Meadhbh, Horsburgh, Jo & Copsey-Blake, Meggie (2022). ‘Biology is easy, physics is hard’ Student perceptions of the ideal and the typical student across STEM higher education. International Studies in Sociology of Education 1-22.
- Wong, Billy, Chiu, Yuan-Li Tiffany, Murray, Órla Meadhbh & Horsburgh, Jo (2022). End of the road? The career intentions of under-represented STEM students in higher education. International Journal of STEM Education 9(51): 1-12.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2022). Text, process, discourse: doing feminist text analysis in institutional ethnography. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 25(1): 45-57.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh, Ablett, Elizabeth & Delucchi, Adriana Suárez (2021). Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 1-10.
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh & Kalayji, Lisa (2018). Forging queer feminist futures through discomfort: vulnerability and authority in the classroom. Journal of Applied Social Theory 1(2): 12-34.
- Bancroft, Angus, Zimpfer, Mariah Jade, Murray, Órla Meadhbh & Karels, Martina (2014). Working at Pleasure in Young Women's Alcohol Consumption: A Participatory Visual Ethnography. Sociological Research Online 19(3): 1-14.
- Bancroft, Angus, Karels, Martina, Zimpfer, Jade & Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2014). Video Ethnography Case: Alcohol Consumption among Young University Students in the United Kingdom. SAGE Research Methods Cases
Newspaper/Magazine Article
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2022). We cannot self-care our way out of imposter syndrome. LSE Higher Education Blog
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2022). Do marginal gains approaches in universities fuel REF myths? WonkHE
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2020). Be Careful What You Wish For: The End of the NSS? Discover Society
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2017). Precarity in the Ivory-Tower - Bringing up Working Conditions at Conferences. Conference Inference
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2016). A Crying Shame: Emotional Labour in Activism. It Ain't Necessarily So
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2015). A Tale of Two Votes: What about Equal Marriage in Northern Ireland. It Ain't Necessarily So
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2015). Home is Where the Heart (of Midlothian) Is: On Feeling at Home and Immigration. It Ain't Necessarily So
- Murray, Órla Meadhbh (2014). "It's all a pile of bourgeois shite": Class, Culture, and the Edinburgh Festivals. It Ain't Necessarily So