- When a 1981 Diary Meets Twitter: Reclaiming a teenage girl’s ordinary experience of the Northern Irish Troubles Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- Coworking Spaces, Accelerators and Incubators: Emerging Forms of Museum Practice in an Increasingly Digital World Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- Museum Studies as Critical Praxis: Developing an Active Approach to Research, Teaching and Practice Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
Dr Oonagh Murphy
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society
Department
Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship
o.murphy (@gold.ac.uk)
Links
Dr. Oonagh Murphy is redefining how cultural organisations and civic society navigates the digital age
Dr Oonagh Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is based within the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, where her research focuses on the scalability or emerging technologies for museums, galleries and cultural organisations.
She is a member of the College of Experts at DCMS, and supports the development of evidence based policy making that shapes policy and practice across the broad digital, media, culture and sport portfolio. She is an Open Data Institute accredited Data Ethics Facilitator and Data Ethics Professional. A Member of the International Council of Museums, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Churchill Fellow.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Museum Studies, University of Ulster 2014
- Masters of Research, University of Ulster 2010
- BA (Hons) Arts Management, De Montfort University 2008
Teaching and supervision
Featured publications
2024:
The Museums + AI Toolkit
Responsible AI Development Framework for Museums
2024:
The Digital Transformation of Cultural Practice
The Handbook of Cultural Work
2019:
When a 1981 Diary Meets Twitter: Reclaiming a teenage girl’s ordinary experience of the Northern Irish Troubles
British Journal of Military History
Grants and awards
2024:
Bridging Responsible AI Divides
AHRC
2019:
The Museums + AI Network
AHRC Research Networking Grant: UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions
2020:
Uncharted, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture
EU Horizon 2020
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- Community arts practice and creative innovation Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- The Digital Transformation of Cultural Practice Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- Power, Data and Control: AI in The Museums Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
Article
- Editorial: Artificial intelligence: cultural policy, management, education, and research Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- This is not an apple! Benefits and challenges of applying computer vision to museum collections Villaespesa, ElenaORCID logo; and Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- CultureLab – Don’t Believe the Stereotype, Ulster Museum, Belfast Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
Professional Activity
- Submission of evidence to the UK Parliament House of Lords ‘A Creative Future’ Inquiry Musgrave, George ; Dinardi, Cecilia ; Franklin, Michael ; Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
Report
- Responsible AI Practical Toolkit Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- Responsible AI in Practice: The Journey of Arts Council England Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
- 人工智能：博物馆规划工具包 [AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit] Murphy, Oonagh ORCID logo
Professional projects
Media engagements
2019:
Artificial Intelligence, visitor data and ethics: Debating the future of museums
Interview by David Styles in Museums and Heritage Advisor
2016:
How to… make the most of an art fair
Arts Professional
2016:
Dialogue, collaboration and exchange: What makes a city creative?
It's Nice That
2016:
Hunger strikes and teenage angst – the world of @NrnIrnGirl1981
The Irish Times
2015:
What can crowdfunding offer the arts beyond money?
The Guardian
2015:
Crowdfunding for the great and small
Arts Professional
2013:
Digital pro bono: time for cultural giants to offer their services
The Guardian