Dr Orla Murray

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Key Publications

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Is belonging always positive? Cultivating alternative and oppositional belonging at university, Murray, Ó., Chiu, Y., Horsburgh, J. 30 Jul 2024, Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education, London, UCL Press
Approaches to Feminist Text Analysis in Institutional Ethnography, Murray, Ó. 14 Mar 2023
Are we proper institutional ethnographers?, Murray, Ó., Ablett, L., Kearney, G., Suárez Delucchi, A. 17 Nov 2023
Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography, Murray, Ó., Ablett, E., Suárez Delucchi, A. 4 May 2023, In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology
‘Biology is easy, physics is hard’: Student perceptions of the ideal and the typical student across STEM higher education, Wong, B., Chiu, Y., Murray, Ó., Horsburgh, J., Copsey-Blake, M. 2 Jan 2023, In: International Studies in Sociology of Education
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK, Murray, Ó., Chiu, Y., Wong, B., Horsburgh, J. 1 Aug 2023, In: Sociology
Against Reform and Defence: Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Praxis in, against, and beyond the Neoliberal University, Schwoerer, L., Murray, Ó. 2022, In: Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education
Book Review: Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power, Murray, Ó. 1 Jun 2022, In: Sociological Research Online
Book Review: Rebecca WB Lund and Ann Christin E Nilsen (eds), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region, Murray, Ó. 1 Oct 2022, In: Work, Employment and Society
Do marginal gains approaches in universities fuel REF myths?, Murray, Ó. 18 May 2022

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