Dr Órla Meadhbh Murray

Órla Meadhbh Murray is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, with a focus on impact case study development for REF 2021. Her PhD research used the work of feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith to explore UK university audit processes and consider what it means to do text-focused feminist research.

Her published work and teaching have largely focused on institutional ethnography, feminist epistemologies and methodologies, intersectionality and Black feminisms, feminist and queer theory and activism, and academia.