Marie Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3779880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1177-1890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interventions to address individual/household food insecurity in Europe since Covid-19: A scoping review
Since 2020, Europe has faced several system shocks which have led to a cost-of-living crisis and an increase in prevalence of food insecurity. These events have sparked a rise and diversification of local and national responses to household food insecurity throughout the region. This scoping review aimed to identify the interventions that have been examined in the scientific literature targeted at individuals/households experiencing food insecuri…
Challenges and opportunities for inclusive, equitable and accessible school holiday clubs for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send)
Our findings highlight issues in access and experience of holiday clubs for children with SEND and provide potential avenues for promoting inclusivity, including how adaptations to the Toolkit could specifically improve HAF. There are considerable challenges to achieving inclusive holiday clubs (financial or otherwise) but if we are to reduce inequities, addressing these should be a public health priority
A process evaluation of the walking in ScHools (Wish) study using the RE-AIM framework
ISRCTN 12847782
Food policy, practice and provision in UK early childhood education and care: A scoping review
Objective: To evaluate research exploring food policy, practice and provision in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, using the socio-ecological model ( S EM). Design: A scoping review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Methodology for scoping reviews and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Five databases were systematically searche…
Factors Associated with Changes in Capability-Wellbeing for Children and Young People of Secondary School Age During the First Covid-19 Lockdown
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12187-025-10294-y
Reflections of a Research Team on Using Creative Facilitation for the First Time: Illuminating the Lived Experience of the School Holidays for Children and Families Living in Poverty Across England
Understanding the lived experience of communities of people who are most affected by health inequalities has become a key focus of public health research. In this context, researchers are increasingly using creative (or arts-based) methods, but there is limited understanding about how best to facilitate these methods to qualitative inquiry that illuminate lived experience and the values that underpin this approach. This paper reports the reflecti…
‘Including us, talking to us and creating a safe environment’—Youth patient and public involvement and the Walking In ScHools (Wish) Study: Lessons learned
BACKGROUND: Young people have the right to be informed and consulted about decisions affecting their lives. Patient and public involvement (PPI) ensures that research is carried out 'with' or 'by' young people rather than 'to', 'about' or 'for' them. The aim of this paper is to outline how youth PPI can be embedded within a physical activity intervention, reflect on the impact of PPI and provide recommendations for future PPI in a similar context…
Changing the food environment in secondary school canteens to promote healthy dietary choices: A qualitative study with school caterers
Interventions using healthy food cues appeared acceptable to secondary school caterers, key potential implementers of these strategies. Future interventions could incorporate strategies relating to placement, presentation and pricing to prompt healthy selections, and actions to engage the student body and improve the dining environment. Evaluations should consider potential impacts upon food purchasing, consumption and waste to address caterers' …
Protocol to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an environmental nutrition and physical activity intervention in nurseries (Nutrition and Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child C…
ISRCTN33134697, 31/10/2019
Mentoring Relationships and Gender Inequities in Academic Medicine: Findings From a Multi-Institutional Qualitative Study
Are all domains created equal? An exploration of stakeholder views on the concept of physical literacy
Differences observed across stakeholder groups underline the importance of developing a shared vision for physical literacy, and the need to clarify and gain consensus on a definition of the term and its domains. Engaging and understanding the voice of stakeholders is critical in ensuring the relevance, ownership of and commitment to physical literacy statement operationalisation
When You Move You Have Fun: Perceived Barriers, and Facilitators of Physical Activity From a Child's Perspective
In Northern Ireland (NI), many children do not meet the recommended levels of physical activity (PA). To reduce the prevalence of physical inactivity and associated health conditions, it is important to understand the influences on children's PA, which in turn has the potential to inform future intervention design. The purpose of this formative study was to examine the current views, barriers, facilitators, experiences, and perceptions of childre…
Music Tempo: A Tool for Regulating Walking Cadence and Physical Activity Intensity in Overweight Adults
This study investigated if music tempo can prompt a desired walking cadence, and if music can provide a stimulus to regulate physical activity intensity in a longitudinal physical activity intervention with free-living adults. Overweight adults ( n = 37; 94.26 ± 17.11 kg; 49.63 ± 12.37 years) were randomly assigned to an intervention (IG, n = 17) or usual care group (UC, n = 20) as part of a novel nine-month walking intervention. IG participants …
Effects of Covid-19 Lockdown on Adherence to Individual Home- or Gym-Based Exercise Training among Women with Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
Adherence is important for an exercise program's efficacy. This study aims at investigating whether the COVID-19 lockdown had different consequences on the adherence to an exercise program specifically designed for women with postmenopausal osteoporosis when administered as individual home training (IHT) or gym group training (GGT). At the start of the lockdown, which imposed the temporary closure of any gym activities, GGT participants were invi…
The “Worktivity” mHealth intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in the workplace: A feasibility cluster randomised controlled pilot study
The findings suggest that, in principle, it is feasible to implement a mobile app-based intervention in the workplace setting however the Worktivity intervention requires further technical refinements before moving to effectiveness trials. Challenges relating to the initial recruitment of workplaces and maintaining user engagement with the mHealth intervention over time need to be addressed prior to future large-scale implementation. Further rese…
The Influence of Role Models on the Sedentary Behaviour Patterns of Primary School-Aged Children and Associations with Psychosocial Aspects of Health
Although there was no indication that children's SB was linked to that of parents and teachers, or that SB was associated with self-esteem or behavioural problems, school children were highly sedentary and insufficiently physically active. Therefore, there is a need to explore school practices and curriculum delivery methods, as well as school and home environments, to reduce the volume of SB children engage in
Physical Activity, Sport and Physical Education in Northern Ireland School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study
Internationally, insufficient physical activity (PA) is a major health concern. Children in Northern Ireland (NI) are recorded as having the lowest levels of PA in the United Kingdom (UK). To date, validated and representative data on the PA levels of NI school children are limited. The aim of this study was to provide surveillance data on self-reported PA, sport and physical education (PE) participation of school children in NI. Differences betw…
A study protocol for a clustered randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a peer-led school-based walking intervention on adolescent girls’ physical activity: The Walking In ScHool…
ISRCTN; ISRCTN12847782; Registered 2nd July 2019
Everywhere and nowhere simultaneously: The ‘absent presence’ of sexuality in medical education
A comprehensive history of medical sex education in the USA is missing from the literature, and much of the recent literature on sexuality education within medical training in the USA relies on survey research, which reveals little about the nature and content of medical sex education, and the meanings of sexuality that are produced and transmitted within it. In this article I provide a brief historical overview of medical sex education in the US…
Using the School Environment to Promote Walking amongst Adolescent Females: A Mixed-Method Study
Schools have the potential to promote physical activity (PA) in adolescents through physical education (PE) and extra-curricular PA. The aims of this study were to firstly understand the experiences of adolescent females who participated in a school-based walking programme (the Walking In ScHools (WISH) study) and secondly, to assess the potential for schools to further promote PA outside of structured PE. A sample of female participants ( n = 45…
Understanding local ethnic inequalities in childhood BMI through cross-sectional analysis of routinely collected local data
This analysis contributes to the existing literature by identifying nuanced patterns of ethnic disparities in childhood adiposity in Coventry, supporting the targeting of early obesity prevention for children from Black African groups, as well as girls from Black Caribbean and Black other ethnic backgrounds; and boys from Bangladeshi and White other ethnic backgrounds. It also demonstrates the utility of exploring routinely collected local data s…
Identification of health-related behavioural clusters and their association with demographic characteristics in Irish university students
Health-related behaviours cluster among this population and need to be taken into account when designing multi-health interventions and policies. These findings can be used to target student groups at risk, leading to more efficient and successful health promotion efforts. The addition of modules providing information regarding health-related behaviours are advised in all fields of study
Conveying troublesome concepts: Using an open-space learning activity to teach mixed-methods research in the health sciences
In the past decade, there has been a groundswell of interest in the use of mixed-methods approaches to conduct research in the health sciences. However, there remains a paucity of diverse teaching materials, curricula and activities to support the continued expansion of education and innovation in mixed-methods research. Here, we report the development and evaluation of an open-space learning activity and tool to aid teaching the concept of synth…
Teaching and Learning About Sexual Diversity Within Medical Education: The Promises and Pitfalls of the Informal Curriculum
Utility of three anthropometric indices in assessing the cardiometabolic risk profile in children
Findings suggest that WHtR provides similar cardiometabolic risk estimates to age and sex adjusted BMI
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Production of Heteronormativity in Medical Education
Mounting evidence that sexual minority status is linked to stigma, stress, and health disparities necessitates critical analysis of medical sex education. In this article, I use ethnographic data to show how normative understandings of sexuality were produced at a top twenty medical school in the United States. Although non-normative sexualities were never overtly denigrated within the curriculum at Buena Vista Medical School, a hidden curriculum…
Conveying troublesome concepts: Using an open-space learning activity to teach mixed-methods research in the health sciences
In the past decade, there has been a groundswell of interest in the use of mixed-methods approaches to conduct research in the health sciences. However, there remains a paucity of diverse teaching materials, curricula and activities to support the continued expansion of education and innovation in mixed-methods research. Here, we report the development and evaluation of an open-space learning activity and tool to aid teaching the concept of synth…
When You Move You Have Fun: Perceived Barriers, and Facilitators of Physical Activity From a Child's Perspective
In Northern Ireland (NI), many children do not meet the recommended levels of physical activity (PA). To reduce the prevalence of physical inactivity and associated health conditions, it is important to understand the influences on children's PA, which in turn has the potential to inform future intervention design. The purpose of this formative study was to examine the current views, barriers, facilitators, experiences, and perceptions of childre…
Teaching and Learning About Sexual Diversity Within Medical Education: The Promises and Pitfalls of the Informal Curriculum
The effect of teachers trained in a fundamental movement skills programme on children’s self-perceptions and motor competence
Perceived and actual motor competence are hypothesized to have potential links to children and young people’s physical activity (PA) levels with a potential consequential link to long-term health. In this cross-sectional study, Harter’s (1985, Manual for the Self-perception Profile for Children. Denver, CO: University of Denver) Competency Motivation-based framework was used to explore whether a group of children taught, during curriculum time, b…
Reflections of a Research Team on Using Creative Facilitation for the First Time: Illuminating the Lived Experience of the School Holidays for Children and Families Living in Poverty Across England
Understanding the lived experience of communities of people who are most affected by health inequalities has become a key focus of public health research. In this context, researchers are increasingly using creative (or arts-based) methods, but there is limited understanding about how best to facilitate these methods to qualitative inquiry that illuminate lived experience and the values that underpin this approach. This paper reports the reflecti…
Determinants of uptake and maintenance of active commuting to school
Understanding Jose Donoso
Authorizing Fictions: "Jose Donoso's "Casa de campo
Engaging Dialogues: The Writing of Elena Poniatowska
Jose Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place
Rosario Ferre en el espejo: Defiance and Inversions
S t sure.' By means of inversions, narrative point of view and defiant female characters, wrongs done to women throughout history are symbolically vindicated while feminine is continually problematized, and ultimately, fragmented and dispersed. Ferre's novel, Maldito amor, parodies romance plot: powerful attraction of Elvira to gallant male, amounting to romantic thralldom, an unequal love in which the lover has power of conferring self-worth and…
The effect of a worksite based walking programme on cardiovascular risk in previously sedentary civil servants [NCT00284479]
These findings suggest that walking twice per week for 45 minutes at approximately 62% HRmax, improves activity levels, reduces systolic BP and prevents an increase in body fat in previously sedentary adults. This walking prescription, however, failed to induce significant improvements in other markers of cardiovascular disease risk following eight weeks of training
The effect of teachers trained in a fundamental movement skills programme on children’s self-perceptions and motor competence
Perceived and actual motor competence are hypothesized to have potential links to children and young people’s physical activity (PA) levels with a potential consequential link to long-term health. In this cross-sectional study, Harter’s (1985, Manual for the Self-perception Profile for Children. Denver, CO: University of Denver) Competency Motivation-based framework was used to explore whether a group of children taught, during curriculum time, b…
Does doing housework keep you healthy? The contribution of domestic physical activity to meeting current recommendations for health
Domestic physical activity accounts for a significant proportion of self-reported daily MVPA particularly among females and older adults however such activity is negatively associated with leanness suggesting that this activity may not be sufficient to provide all of the benefits normally associated with meeting the physical activity guidelines
Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and clustered cardiometabolic risk in 10‐ to 12‐year‐old school children: The Reach Y6 study
OBJECTIVES: (1) Investigate whether clustered cardiometabolic risk score, cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), sedentary time (ST), and body mass index Z-scores (BMI Z-scores), differed between participants that met and did not achieve ≥60 min of daily moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA). (2) Compare clustered cardiometabolic risk score, BMI Z-score, ST, and MVPA by CRF status. METHODS: One hundred and one (n = 45 boys) 10- to 12-…
Application of objective physical activity measurement in an antenatal physical activity consultation intervention: A randomised controlled trial
Current Controlled Trials Register ISRCTN61829137
Current influences and approaches to promote future physical activity in 11–13 year olds: A focus group study
This study has highlighted a number of influences on current and future participation in PA, which differed based on gender and existing PA levels, for example, maximising the potential of the school day and including technology and incentives. These components can inform targeted interventions to increase PA in low active adolescents
Utility of three anthropometric indices in assessing the cardiometabolic risk profile in children
Findings suggest that WHtR provides similar cardiometabolic risk estimates to age and sex adjusted BMI
Determinants of uptake and maintenance of active commuting to school
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Production of Heteronormativity in Medical Education
Mounting evidence that sexual minority status is linked to stigma, stress, and health disparities necessitates critical analysis of medical sex education. In this article, I use ethnographic data to show how normative understandings of sexuality were produced at a top twenty medical school in the United States. Although non-normative sexualities were never overtly denigrated within the curriculum at Buena Vista Medical School, a hidden curriculum…
Teaching and Learning About Sexual Diversity Within Medical Education: The Promises and Pitfalls of the Informal Curriculum
Everywhere and nowhere simultaneously: The ‘absent presence’ of sexuality in medical education
A comprehensive history of medical sex education in the USA is missing from the literature, and much of the recent literature on sexuality education within medical training in the USA relies on survey research, which reveals little about the nature and content of medical sex education, and the meanings of sexuality that are produced and transmitted within it. In this article I provide a brief historical overview of medical sex education in the US…
Using the School Environment to Promote Walking amongst Adolescent Females: A Mixed-Method Study
Schools have the potential to promote physical activity (PA) in adolescents through physical education (PE) and extra-curricular PA. The aims of this study were to firstly understand the experiences of adolescent females who participated in a school-based walking programme (the Walking In ScHools (WISH) study) and secondly, to assess the potential for schools to further promote PA outside of structured PE. A sample of female participants ( n = 45…
Understanding local ethnic inequalities in childhood BMI through cross-sectional analysis of routinely collected local data
This analysis contributes to the existing literature by identifying nuanced patterns of ethnic disparities in childhood adiposity in Coventry, supporting the targeting of early obesity prevention for children from Black African groups, as well as girls from Black Caribbean and Black other ethnic backgrounds; and boys from Bangladeshi and White other ethnic backgrounds. It also demonstrates the utility of exploring routinely collected local data s…
Identification of health-related behavioural clusters and their association with demographic characteristics in Irish university students
Health-related behaviours cluster among this population and need to be taken into account when designing multi-health interventions and policies. These findings can be used to target student groups at risk, leading to more efficient and successful health promotion efforts. The addition of modules providing information regarding health-related behaviours are advised in all fields of study
Conveying troublesome concepts: Using an open-space learning activity to teach mixed-methods research in the health sciences
In the past decade, there has been a groundswell of interest in the use of mixed-methods approaches to conduct research in the health sciences. However, there remains a paucity of diverse teaching materials, curricula and activities to support the continued expansion of education and innovation in mixed-methods research. Here, we report the development and evaluation of an open-space learning activity and tool to aid teaching the concept of synth…
The Influence of Role Models on the Sedentary Behaviour Patterns of Primary School-Aged Children and Associations with Psychosocial Aspects of Health
Although there was no indication that children's SB was linked to that of parents and teachers, or that SB was associated with self-esteem or behavioural problems, school children were highly sedentary and insufficiently physically active. Therefore, there is a need to explore school practices and curriculum delivery methods, as well as school and home environments, to reduce the volume of SB children engage in
Physical Activity, Sport and Physical Education in Northern Ireland School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study
Internationally, insufficient physical activity (PA) is a major health concern. Children in Northern Ireland (NI) are recorded as having the lowest levels of PA in the United Kingdom (UK). To date, validated and representative data on the PA levels of NI school children are limited. The aim of this study was to provide surveillance data on self-reported PA, sport and physical education (PE) participation of school children in NI. Differences betw…
A study protocol for a clustered randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a peer-led school-based walking intervention on adolescent girls’ physical activity: The Walking In ScHool…
ISRCTN; ISRCTN12847782; Registered 2nd July 2019
Music Tempo: A Tool for Regulating Walking Cadence and Physical Activity Intensity in Overweight Adults
This study investigated if music tempo can prompt a desired walking cadence, and if music can provide a stimulus to regulate physical activity intensity in a longitudinal physical activity intervention with free-living adults. Overweight adults ( n = 37; 94.26 ± 17.11 kg; 49.63 ± 12.37 years) were randomly assigned to an intervention (IG, n = 17) or usual care group (UC, n = 20) as part of a novel nine-month walking intervention. IG participants …
Effects of Covid-19 Lockdown on Adherence to Individual Home- or Gym-Based Exercise Training among Women with Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
Adherence is important for an exercise program's efficacy. This study aims at investigating whether the COVID-19 lockdown had different consequences on the adherence to an exercise program specifically designed for women with postmenopausal osteoporosis when administered as individual home training (IHT) or gym group training (GGT). At the start of the lockdown, which imposed the temporary closure of any gym activities, GGT participants were invi…
Medicine (25 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Nursing (15 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (15 works) · Physical Activity and Health (15 works) · Physical therapy (15 works) · Public health (15 works) · Biostatistics (13 works) · Children's Physical and Motor Development (10 works) · Medical education (10 works)