Dr Órla Meadhbh Murray

Assistant Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

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Key Publications

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Unequal bureaucracies in practice: analysing documents using Institutional Ethnography, Murray, Ó. 27 Jan 2026, Using Documents in Research, Bristol, United Kingdom, Bristol University Press
Crip guts, stomas, and the violence of ‘returning to normal’: a feminist queer crip approach to the gut, Murray, Ó. Dec 2025, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Dorothy Smith: making the ontological shift, Murray, Ó. 9 Dec 2025, Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
‘I deserve to be here’: minority ethnic students and their conditional belonging in UK higher education, Chiu, Y., Wong, B., Murray, Ó., Horsburgh, J., Copsey-Blake, M. 24 May 2025, In: Higher Education
University audit cultures and feminist praxis: An institutional ethnography, Murray, Ó. 23 Apr 2025
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