Michael Murray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3715451 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Murray |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Murray |
| ASSINATURA | MURRAY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1715-5629 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 85 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 445 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Charting the Evolution
This paper examines the development process that frames the professionalization of social work in Jordan between 2019 and 2023, situated within the European Union-funded Support to Social Protection Programme: Helping Deliver Social Inclusion. Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD), the initiative sought to strengthen the professional infrastructure through legislative development, specialist training, and the est…
‘You Go on One of These Protests, Your Child Could Get Hurt . . . ’ Fighting Political Fear and the ‘Sinister’ Narrative During the Irish Anti-Water Charges Campaign (2014–2016)
This article examines how working-class activists challenged and overcame political fear narratives during the anti-water charges campaign in Ireland (2014–2016), with specific focus on the ‘sinister’ narrative, an attempt by the government and its supporters to frame working-class protestors as violent, irrational and extremist. Rather than subscribing to the position that political fear is ubiquitous or the reflection of a general societal mala…
Empowering learners through student-led integration of environmental health into small group discussions
With ongoing climate change and other major human-induced changes to the biosphere, there is a greater need to improve future healthcare providers' environmental health (EH) literacy. As of 2022, 45% of U.S. MD programs lacked a required EH curriculum. A self-assembled group of four medical students conceptualized and planned this pilot study to characterize matriculating medical students' EH knowledge and attitudes. This group also developed EH …
Breaking barriers
Previous research has shown that female and Hispanic students who are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) face more educational barriers than their non-Hispanic, male peers. However, little research has been conducted on the effects of intersectional identities in the STEM space. In an effort to bridge the gap in underrepresented students' experience, the PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies organizes …
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years
Fear, class and quiescence
This article explores the deployment of political fear by the Irish government and supporters during the Irish Anti Water Charges Campaign (2014–2016), with a focus on the use of the framing of working-class activists as ‘sinister’. Drawing on the works of John Gaventa and Fiona Jefferies, this article challenges the notion of political fear as a reflection of a wider, cultural malaise that is passively absorbed by targeted communities. Instead, …
You really do become invisible’
A global ageing population presents opportunities and challenges to designing urban environments that support ageing in place. The World Health Organization's Global Age-Friendly Cities movement has identified the need to develop communities that optimise health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. Ensuring that age-friendly urban environments create the conditions for active ageing requires cities and co…
Constructing and negotiating social participation in old age
The age-friendly cities and communities movement has focused on how to better support older adults to age well within urban environments. Central to ‘ageing well’ and ‘active ageing’ agendas is ensuring that older adults can participate in meaningful forms of social participation. The benefits of social participation in old age have been well documented, and research amongst community-dwelling older adults has explored some of the neighbourhood q…
The Influence of Relationship-Centered Coaching on Physician Perceptions of Peer Review in the Context of Mandated Regulatory Practices
PURPOSE: Medical regulatory authorities are legally mandated to protect patients by monitoring the practice of medicine. While principally a matter of public safety, many pursue this mission by establishing quality improvement initiatives that prioritize professional development for all rather than identification of substandard performers. Engaging practitioners in directed learning opportunities, however, is rife with challenge given inherent so…
Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods
The ageing in place agenda emphasises the importance of supporting older adults to age in their communities surrounded by the personal resources to age well. In exploring the relationship between older people and their environment, the concept of place insideness is seen as central to constructing feelings of identity, belonging and attachment in old age. Yet there has been little research exploring how older adults experience place insideness ac…
Some thoughts on qualitative research in psychology in Europe
This short commentary reflects upon some of the current debates about qualitative methods within European psychology. It notes that the rebirth of qualitative methods towards the end of the twentieth century often coupled an epistemological challenge to the quantitative orthodoxy within psychology with a political challenge to social injustice. However, more recently there have been tensions imposed by the increasing state and institutional surve…
The pre-history of health psychology in the United Kingdom
Health psychology formally came of age in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, but it was prefigured by much discussion about challenges to the dominance of biomedicine in healthcare and debates. This articles focuses on what could be termed the pre-history of health psychology in the UK. This was the period in the earlier 20th century when psychological approaches were dominated by psychoanalysis which was followed by behaviourism and then cognitivi…
Doing Histor{y/ies} of Health Psycholog{y/ies
Academic (sub)disciplines develop in time and place when particular ideas/practices are nurtured within social, gendered, cultural, community, economic and political contexts. Different histories employ different analyses, some with external views of scientific outputs describing research and practice, and others with internal, behind-the-scenes examinations of these developments, through oral histories and personal recollections. This collection…
Health psychology in autobiography
Three Canadian colleagues in health psychology recount their careers in a field of research and practice whose birth they witnessed and whose developments they have critiqued. By placing the development of health psychology in Canada in a context that is both institutional and personal, Stam, Murray, and Lubek raise a series of questions about health psychology and its propagation. While uniquely Canadian their professional careers were affected …
Talking about sunbed tanning
Northern Ireland after the troubles
Ages and Stages
Despite the growing interest amongst gerontologists and literary and cultural scholars alike, in arts participation, ageing and the artistic outputs of older people, comparatively little attention has yet been paid to theatre and drama. Likewise, community or participatory theatre has long been used to address issues affecting marginalised or excluded groups, but it is a presently under-utilised medium for exploring ageing or for conveying positi…
Narrative health psychology
In this editorial, we position narrative health psychology as a variety of narrative psychology, a form of qualitative research in health psychology, and a psychological perspective that falls under the interdisciplinary term narrative health research. The aim of this positioning is to explore what are the most important features of the proposed approach and how they are relevant. We illustrate each positioning with the scope and diversity of nar…
The narrative psychology of community health workers
Community health psychology is an approach which promotes community mobilisation as a means of enhancing community capacity and well-being and challenging health inequalities. Much of the research on this approach has been at the more strategic and policy level with less reference to the everyday experiences of community workers who are actively involved in promoting various forms of community change. This article considers the narrative accounts…
The growth and the stagnation of work stress
Stress at work is a frequent subject of scientific research. In most of this, the unit of analysis has been the employee and his or her work stress. Historical, cultural and macro-contextual approaches have rarely been included in the analytical framework. In this study, we examined secular trends in scientific publications on work stress, and analysed how, over a period of 50 years, a new discursive, institutional, intellectual and subjective sp…
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Construction Industry
Politics at the Touch of a Button
Journal Article Politics at the Touch of a Button: An Evaluation of the First Ever Oireachtas (Irish Houses of Parliament) E-consultation Get access Michael Murray Michael Murray * National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 2013, Pages 597–616, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Comprehension of multimedia health information among older adults with chronic illness
The authors explored knowledge effects on comprehension of multimedia health information by older adults (age 60 or older). Participants viewed passages about hypertension, with text accompanied by relevant and irrelevant pictures, and then answered questions about the passage. Fixations on text and pictures were measured by eye-tracking. Participants with more knowledge of hypertension understood the passages better. This advantage was related t…
Ageing in changing community contexts
Participatory governance in a changing world
Levels of Narrative Analysis in Health Psychology
The past 10-15 years have seen a rapid increase in the study of narrative across all the social sciences. It is sometimes assumed that narrative has the same meaning irrespective of the context in which it is expressed. This article considers different levels of narrative analysis within health psychology. Specifically, it considers the character of health and illness narratives as a function of the personal, interpersonal, positional and societa…
Community Health Psychology
Community health psychology is concerned with the theory and method of working with communities to combat disease and to promote health. This introductory article outlines key assumptions and debates underlying this area of research and practice-in the interests of framing the papers in this special edition of the Journal of Health Psychology. Attention is given to the value of emphasizing the community level of analysis and action; the role of c…
A Narrative Approach to Health Psychology
Over the past 10 years there has been increasing debate about the positivist assumptions underlying mainstream psychology and of the other social, and indeed physical, sciences. A narrative approach to psychology has attracted substantial interest. This perspective argues, basically, that human beings are natural storytellers and that the exchange of stories permeates our everyday social interaction. The task of a narrative psychology, and of a n…
Ageing in changing community contexts
Living in a Material World
AS WE ENTER the 21st century a major challenge for health psychologists is to reflect on the adequacy of our theories and methods for improving the health of the world's masses.While many of us may think that our theories developed in the quiet of the academic seminar room are at least benign, the evidence suggests that this may not be the case.For example, in a recent review Waldo and Coates (2000) considered the role of behavioural science, and…
Capacity building for rural development in the United States
Assumptions and Values of Community Health Psychology
There is a need to widen the practice of health psychologists to include the theories and methods of community psychology and an awareness of contemporary issues in community health. The aim of such a community health psychology would be both to deepen our understanding of the aetiology of health and illness in society and to develop strategies that will contribute to a reduction in human suffering and an improvement in quality of life. The aim o…
Connecting Narrative and Social Representation Theory in Health Research
According to narrative theory, human beings are natural story-tellers, and investigating the character of the stories people tell can help us better understand not only the particular events described but also the character of the story-teller and of the social context within which the stories are constructed. Much of the research on the character of narratives has focussed on their internal structure and has not sufficiently considered their soc…
Building capacity in community health action research
Community-based action research has received increased attention in health research as an important vehicle for both knowledge creation and community capacity-building. This approach to research is value-driven, attuned to power issues, committed to stakeholder participation, and action-oriented. Efforts to build capacity within the health research community to engage collaboratively with communities in action research projects must be predicated…
I Don't Think They Knew We Could Do These Sorts of Things
As people age the character of their social relationships change. There is evidence that older people who reside in disadvantaged communities often experience social isolation, which in turn has been found to be associated with a variety of health problems. This article reports the initial findings from a participatory arts project with a group of older residents of a disadvantaged urban community. It describes how the older residents represented…
Social Representations of Health and Illness among ' Baby-boomers' in Eastern Canada
For several decades, government agencies in the western world have promoted personal responsibility for health and illness. This study explored the extent to which this perspective was integrated into the everyday beliefs about health and illness held by a sample of baby-boomers from eastern Canada. Approximately 150 baby-boomers participated in a series of individual interviews and group discussions. Detailed analysis of their conversation revea…
Exploring the dialectics of route-based tourism
Methylmercury Exposure and Health Effects in Humans
The paper builds on existing literature, highlighting current understanding and identifying unresolved issues about MeHg exposure, health effects, and risk assessment, and concludes with a consensus statement. Methylmercury is a potent toxin, bioaccumulated and concentrated through the aquatic food chain, placing at risk people, throughout the globe and across the socioeconomic spectrum, who consume predatory fish or for whom fish is a dietary ma…
Reconstructing Health Psychology
Social history of health psychology
Health psychology as a field of research and practice formally developed 30 years ago but it was prefigured by sustained debate within social and applied psychology about the nature of psychology and its role in society. This article considers this pre-history of health psychology and how the field has subsequently developed. It considers how its character is shaped by dominant ideas within psychology and is also enmeshed in broader social relati…
Health Psychology and Social Action
This article reviews the main epistemological approaches within health psychology. It considers the approach based on critical realism and various strategies for linking health psychology with social action. It argues that critical health psychology has a distinct contribution to make in promoting public health as part of the broader movement for social justice and health
Heidegger and Modern Philosophy. Critical Essays
Effects of Environmental Methylmercury on the Health of Wild Birds, Mammals, and Fish
Wild piscivorous fish, mammals, and birds may be at risk for elevated dietary methylmercury intake and toxicity. In controlled feeding studies, the consumption of diets that contained Hg (as methylmercury) at environmentally realistic concentrations resulted in a range of toxic effects in fish, birds, and mammals, including behavioral, neurochemical, hormonal, and reproductive changes. Limited field-based studies, especially with certain wild pis…
Qualitative Research in Health Psychology
There is ongoing debate within psychology about the legitimacy of qualitative methods, although this debate has only recently begun within the subdiscipline of health psychology. In the health arena, psychology has been one of the last disciplines to adopt qualitative methods for research. This issue of the Journal of Health Psychology provides a forum for some health psychologists to present their research using qualitative methods. Their work c…
Relation between parents' and children's smoking behaviour and attitudes
In the MRC/Derbyshire Smoking Study, a cohort of about 6000 adolescents was surveyed annually about their smoking behaviour, attitudes, and other issues from when they entered secondary school at 11-12 until 15-16 years and then again at 18-19 years. Their parents answered a similar questionnaire when their children were aged 11-12 and 15-16 years. In this paper we report the findings of an investigation focussed on the relation between parents' …
Health Psychology and Writing
There has been substantial empirical research on the health benefits of expressive writing. However, there has been less psychological research on the broader nature of writing and its relationship with health. The aim of this special section is to promote a more extensive engagement between health psychology and writing. It includes three articles on the value of investigating more established forms of writing, the nature of creative writing and…
Health Psychology and the Arts
Critical approaches within health psychology continue to explore new methods of working and new theoretical ideas from other disciplines. One area that remains under-explored is the potential links with the arts. This special issue contains a selection of empirical and theoretical reports on the linkages between health psychology and the arts. It includes arts and health projects in clinical, community and educational contexts; projects with youn…
Social Representations of Health and Illness
Cet article presente les contributions de ce dossier consacre aux representations sociales de la sante et de la maladie en mettant l'accent sur l'utilisation des methodes qualitatives et sur la necessite d'un rapprochement avec la psychologie de la sante, la psychologie discursive et le recit
The Spiritual and the Profane
Constructing and negotiating social participation in old age
The age-friendly cities and communities movement has focused on how to better support older adults to age well within urban environments. Central to ‘ageing well’ and ‘active ageing’ agendas is ensuring that older adults can participate in meaningful forms of social participation. The benefits of social participation in old age have been well documented, and research amongst community-dwelling older adults has explored some of the neighbourhood q…
The crisis of Greek poetics
Heidegger and the Tradition
The therapist as a transitional object
A Note on Wittgenstein and Heidegger
T HE Editors of the Philosophical Review, in January, i965, published some excerpts from the manuscripts of Friedrich Waismann1 under the title, Notes on Talks with Wittgenstein, dated 30 December, 1929. These were printed with the German text and an English translation by Max Black (pp. 12-13) as a sequel to the English text of Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics of ca. September 1929-December 1930 (pp. 3-12). For reasons never explained, Waismann'…
The Treatment of Autism
Third Sector Management - The Role of Marketing
Family character analysis
Heidegger and Modern Philosophy. Critical Essays
Starting Point
School characteristics and adolescent smoking. Results from the MRC/Derbyshire Smoking Study 1974-8 and from a follow up in 1981
In the MRC/Derbyshire Smoking Study a cohort of about 6000 adolescents was surveyed annually from 1974 when they entered secondary school aged 11-12 years until 1978 when they reached 15-16 years. In 1981 after the adolescents had left school they were again surveyed by post. Each year from 1974 to 1978 and again in 1981 they answered a questionnaire on their smoking behaviour and other issues. Information on the schools attended by these adolesc…
Long term effect of a school based antismoking programme
In the winters of 1977-8 and 1978-9 about 400 children in seven junior schools in northern England were taught the "My Body" health education programme. In the springs of 1980 and of 1982 these children, and an age matched control group, answered a questionnaire about their smoking behaviour, knowledge, and attitudes. Comparison of the two groups suggested that the programme had had a positive effect on the boys but a negligible, or even negative…
Relation between parents' and children's smoking behaviour and attitudes
In the MRC/Derbyshire Smoking Study, a cohort of about 6000 adolescents was surveyed annually about their smoking behaviour, attitudes, and other issues from when they entered secondary school at 11-12 until 15-16 years and then again at 18-19 years. Their parents answered a similar questionnaire when their children were aged 11-12 and 15-16 years. In this paper we report the findings of an investigation focussed on the relation between parents' …
Shards, strata and sites
More on Quaint and Quondam Words
Local authority economic development in Northern Ireland
Dupre
The Hawthorne effect in the measurement of adolescent smoking
It is possible that the process of repeatedly measuring the smoking behaviour of adolescents may very well affect that behaviour. This paper reports a test for the extent of such a "Hawthorne" effect in a longitudinal survey of smoking by English adolescents. The self-reported smoking behaviour of 15-16 year olds who attended schools which had participated in the study for five years was compared with that of 15-16 year olds who attended other sc…
Rural Development in Ireland
Part 1 Policy Overview: rural Ireland - personality and policy context, John Greer and Michael Murray rural development in the 1990s - does prospect lie in retrospect?, Nigel Curry rural developments in the Republic of Ireland, Patrick Commins rural developments in Northern Ireland, Michael Murray and John Greer. Part 2 Sectoral issues: agriculture and the environmentally sensitive area scheme, Joan Moss and Susan Chilton forestry and rural emplo…
Capacity building for rural development in the United States
Practice forum Planning and Community-led Development in Northern Rural Ireland
Exploring the dialectics of route-based tourism
The Spiritual and the Profane
A Narrative Approach to Health Psychology
Over the past 10 years there has been increasing debate about the positivist assumptions underlying mainstream psychology and of the other social, and indeed physical, sciences. A narrative approach to psychology has attracted substantial interest. This perspective argues, basically, that human beings are natural storytellers and that the exchange of stories permeates our everyday social interaction. The task of a narrative psychology, and of a n…
Qualitative Research in Health Psychology
There is ongoing debate within psychology about the legitimacy of qualitative methods, although this debate has only recently begun within the subdiscipline of health psychology. In the health arena, psychology has been one of the last disciplines to adopt qualitative methods for research. This issue of the Journal of Health Psychology provides a forum for some health psychologists to present their research using qualitative methods. Their work c…
Qualitative Health Psychology
PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING HEALTH AND ILLNESS THROUGH LANGUAGE Health Psychology and Qualitative Research - Michael Murray and Kerry Chamberlain Social Realms and the Qualities of Illness Experience - Alan Radley Understanding Embodied Experience - Lucy Yardley The Storied Nature of Health and Illness - Michael Murray Discourse, Health and Illness - Mandy Morgan Making Sense of Illness Experiences - Mary-Jane Paris Spink Feminist Approaches to Qualit…
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