Órla Meadhbh Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 308415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Órla Meadhbh Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Órla Meadhbh |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY Ó M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Imperial College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1916-7498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘I deserve to be here’
In efforts to support students’ belonging in higher education, universities continue to cultivate and promote diversity and inclusion in their academic communities. Despite this endeavour, students from underrepresented backgrounds can still often encounter barriers to belonging at university. Existing research has identified multiple domains of student belonging in higher education, although there has been limited qualitative analysis of how bel…
University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis
University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis
Being ‘REF-able’. The impact agenda. The student experience. University audit culture has infiltrated academic life, but how should we respond?Drawing on a 5-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist reflections on audit culture.For feminist and other critical academics, the interpretative power involved in audit processes provides an opportunity to collect…
Crip guts, stomas, and the violence of ‘returning to normal’
What is a feminist queer crip approach to the gut? How might we use feminist queer crip theory to make sense of non-normative guts? And how might crip guts help us make sense of the world? This paper is an autoethnographic reflection on my crip guts, specifically being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC), a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and having a colectomy (surgery to remove my colon) to create an ileostomy (a type of stoma). I …
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is the experience of persistently feeling like a fraud despite one's achievements. This article explores student experiences of imposter syndrome, based on 27 interviews with marginalised STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) undergraduates at two pre-1992 elite UK universities. We argue that imposter feelings are a form of unevenly distributed emotional work, which we call imposter work. Drawing on …
Biology is easy, physics is hard’
This paper draws upon in-depth interviews with 89 students from two UK universities to explore how students from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees describe the ideal as well as the typical student in their respective disciplines. We provide a comparative insight into the similarities and differences between disciplinary identities based on student perceptions. More specifically, we consider how undergraduates from bi…
Text, process, discourse
Institutional ethnography (IE) is a feminist approach to research focusing on the organising power of texts and language. This paper explores how to analyse texts in IE while considering the importance of reflexivity and accountability to feminist research. Based on a five year study of UK university audit processes, I developed a three-part IE text analysis approach which sits on a spectrum of closeness to the text(s) under analysis: (i) text – …
Feel the Fear and Killjoy Anyway
Being a feminist killjoy (Ahmed, The promise of happiness. London: Duke University Press, 2010) is an uncomfortable position to hold. Sometimes this position is actively chosen and pursued as a political aim—challenging people around you, in your personal life, and through your work. Sometimes one is positioned as the killjoy by others due to presumed political beliefs or through being 'out of place' in the whiteness, the middle-classness, and th…
Working at Pleasure in Young Women's Alcohol Consumption
This paper reports on a participatory ethnography conducted with undergraduate students. It examined the rituals and habits through which they constructed their intoxication culture. Students used video recording devices such as smartphones to collect data about aspects of their intoxication experiences. They were then interviewed about emerging analytical themes. In this paper we focus on one aspect of intoxication culture, the place of pleasure…
Momigliano and Antiquarianism
A centenary is a difficult age. You will have been dead some twenty years; those who celebrate you fall into three groups: ageing disciples who knew you (and perhaps revere you too much; your enemies will hopefully keep silent); those who have become famous since your death, who are as concerned for their own reputations as for yours; and young Turks out to kill or at least appropriate their predecessor. Arnaldo Momigliano was born in 1908 and di…
Biology is easy, physics is hard’
This paper draws upon in-depth interviews with 89 students from two UK universities to explore how students from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees describe the ideal as well as the typical student in their respective disciplines. We provide a comparative insight into the similarities and differences between disciplinary identities based on student perceptions. More specifically, we consider how undergraduates from bi…
Text, process, discourse
Institutional ethnography (IE) is a feminist approach to research focusing on the organising power of texts and language. This paper explores how to analyse texts in IE while considering the importance of reflexivity and accountability to feminist research. Based on a five year study of UK university audit processes, I developed a three-part IE text analysis approach which sits on a spectrum of closeness to the text(s) under analysis: (i) text – …
Momigliano and Antiquarianism
A centenary is a difficult age. You will have been dead some twenty years; those who celebrate you fall into three groups: ageing disciples who knew you (and perhaps revere you too much; your enemies will hopefully keep silent); those who have become famous since your death, who are as concerned for their own reputations as for yours; and young Turks out to kill or at least appropriate their predecessor. Arnaldo Momigliano was born in 1908 and di…
Working at Pleasure in Young Women's Alcohol Consumption
This paper reports on a participatory ethnography conducted with undergraduate students. It examined the rituals and habits through which they constructed their intoxication culture. Students used video recording devices such as smartphones to collect data about aspects of their intoxication experiences. They were then interviewed about emerging analytical themes. In this paper we focus on one aspect of intoxication culture, the place of pleasure…
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is the experience of persistently feeling like a fraud despite one's achievements. This article explores student experiences of imposter syndrome, based on 27 interviews with marginalised STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) undergraduates at two pre-1992 elite UK universities. We argue that imposter feelings are a form of unevenly distributed emotional work, which we call imposter work. Drawing on …
Momigliano and Antiquarianism
A centenary is a difficult age. You will have been dead some twenty years; those who celebrate you fall into three groups: ageing disciples who knew you (and perhaps revere you too much; your enemies will hopefully keep silent); those who have become famous since your death, who are as concerned for their own reputations as for yours; and young Turks out to kill or at least appropriate their predecessor. Arnaldo Momigliano was born in 1908 and di…
Working at Pleasure in Young Women's Alcohol Consumption
This paper reports on a participatory ethnography conducted with undergraduate students. It examined the rituals and habits through which they constructed their intoxication culture. Students used video recording devices such as smartphones to collect data about aspects of their intoxication experiences. They were then interviewed about emerging analytical themes. In this paper we focus on one aspect of intoxication culture, the place of pleasure…
Feel the Fear and Killjoy Anyway
Being a feminist killjoy (Ahmed, The promise of happiness. London: Duke University Press, 2010) is an uncomfortable position to hold. Sometimes this position is actively chosen and pursued as a political aim—challenging people around you, in your personal life, and through your work. Sometimes one is positioned as the killjoy by others due to presumed political beliefs or through being 'out of place' in the whiteness, the middle-classness, and th…
Text, process, discourse
Institutional ethnography (IE) is a feminist approach to research focusing on the organising power of texts and language. This paper explores how to analyse texts in IE while considering the importance of reflexivity and accountability to feminist research. Based on a five year study of UK university audit processes, I developed a three-part IE text analysis approach which sits on a spectrum of closeness to the text(s) under analysis: (i) text – …
Biology is easy, physics is hard’
This paper draws upon in-depth interviews with 89 students from two UK universities to explore how students from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees describe the ideal as well as the typical student in their respective disciplines. We provide a comparative insight into the similarities and differences between disciplinary identities based on student perceptions. More specifically, we consider how undergraduates from bi…
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is the experience of persistently feeling like a fraud despite one's achievements. This article explores student experiences of imposter syndrome, based on 27 interviews with marginalised STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) undergraduates at two pre-1992 elite UK universities. We argue that imposter feelings are a form of unevenly distributed emotional work, which we call imposter work. Drawing on …
University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis
University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis
Being ‘REF-able’. The impact agenda. The student experience. University audit culture has infiltrated academic life, but how should we respond?Drawing on a 5-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist reflections on audit culture.For feminist and other critical academics, the interpretative power involved in audit processes provides an opportunity to collect…
Crip guts, stomas, and the violence of ‘returning to normal’
What is a feminist queer crip approach to the gut? How might we use feminist queer crip theory to make sense of non-normative guts? And how might crip guts help us make sense of the world? This paper is an autoethnographic reflection on my crip guts, specifically being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC), a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and having a colectomy (surgery to remove my colon) to create an ileostomy (a type of stoma). I …
‘I deserve to be here’
In efforts to support students’ belonging in higher education, universities continue to cultivate and promote diversity and inclusion in their academic communities. Despite this endeavour, students from underrepresented backgrounds can still often encounter barriers to belonging at university. Existing research has identified multiple domains of student belonging in higher education, although there has been limited qualitative analysis of how bel…
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