Dr Jane Murray

Assistant Professor

School: Healthcare and Nursing Sciences

Dr Jane Murray is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. She has been a Mental Health Nurse for almost 30 years, specialising in the care of older persons, particularly those with dementia. She has an extensive teaching record both nationally and internationally. Dr Murray is currently leading a preregistration nursing programme at the Shanghai University of Traditional Medicine and a Bachelor of Science Nursing programme at Kaplan in Singapore. She has been an academic since 2008, teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, as well as supervising PhD students. Dr Murray holds an MSc in Professional and Academic Learning and a Doctor of Philosophy from Northumbria University. Her Doctorate focussed on how professional caregivers communicate with people with dementia and is entitled Wholetruth, Untruth and Lies; an ethnographic study of communicative interactions between professional care givers and people with dementia. Additionally, she is a registered teacher and has specialist practitioner status (older persons mental health) from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Dr Murray is a Fellow of the Higher education Academy and has been appointed to the Royal College of Nursing Older Peoples steering committee.

As well as her international leadership roles, Dr Murray has taught extensively into Malaysia, Borneo and China. This teaching has focused on care of the older person as well as healthcare law and ethics which is also part of her special interest in relation to older people.

Her current research is focussed on issues relating to people with dementia and their families and includes the use of continuous glucose monitoring for people with diabetes and dementia, and truth and lie telling to people with dementia. Dr Murray is passionate about improving care for older people both nationally and internationally and regularly speaks on these topics.

Campus Address

Coach Lane Campus East

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Key Publications

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An ethnographic study to develop a taxonomy of lies for communicating with people with moderate to severe dementia, Murray, J., Thompson, J., Hill, M., James, I. 1 Feb 2025, In: Nursing Ethics
Person-Centred Care – Caring for Older People, Murray, J., Tiplady, S., Quinn, I. 1 Aug 2025, Fundamentals of Caring for the Older Person, UK, Wiley
Editorial 6(SI1): Simulation in higher education, Murray, J., Platt, A., Allan, J. 4 Mar 2024, In: Journal Of Applied Learning and Teaching
Scoping review of dementia and diabetes co-morbidity care, Murray, J., Cook, G., Gordon, C., Sturrock, A. 30 Apr 2024, In: Medical Research Archives
What happened to personhood?, Murray, J. 1 May 2024
Exploring the lived experiences of mental health professionals: A phenomenological study on ligature training in a simulated environment, Hill, B., Mitchell, A., Murray, J. 9 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients?, Murray, J. 1 Feb 2023, In: Nursing Ethics
Raising awareness of additional hydration care needs of residents with multimorbidity, Cook, G., Murray, J., Gordon, C. 2 Jun 2023, In: Nursing and Residential Care
A workforce competency framework for enhanced health, Thompson, J., Tiplady, S., McNall, A., Murray, J., Cook, G., Hodgson, P., Bainbridge, L. Apr 2018, In: Nursing and Residential Care