Orla Murphy PhD MPhil Dip Acc and IS Dip Med Studies PG Cert TLHE

Dr Orla Murphy is Head of the School of English and Digital Humanities, School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork, Ireland.

Recent EU Roles: Vice Chair & Irish National Representative on the Scientific Committee of CoST-EU; Co-operation in Science and Technology.

Lead - COST.EU Working Group on Open Access and Open Data

Irish National Representative on the Strategic Working Group for Social Science and Humanities of ESFRI the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures.

Current National Role: Co Chair ACERR The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository.

Previously, National Coordinator of DARIAH-IE; the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities,  to 2022 Board Member DRI the Digital Repository of Ireland.

My work specialises in the concept of knowledge representation, specifically 'textuality' and the impact of text technologies on the world, with a particular focus on the Digital Humanities. My research explores the integration of emerging digital technologies (with)in the humanities in scholarship and in pedagogy. I have co designed and developed a series of innovative degrees that promote a standards-led approach, using international best practice for digitisation, in its multiplicity of forms, in order to create (amongst other outcomes) reusable learning objects that are malleable across many platforms and of interest to a wide range of citizens. Her teaching and publications reflect corresponding interests in Old English language and culture; insular art and culture; movement of ideas from the Mediterranean world in the early medieval period; epigraphy; palaeography; codicology; textual scholarship.

Digital Arts and Humanities

Digital Pedagogy

Digital Education

Textualities

Exploring the integration of emerging digital technologies (with)in the humanities

Knowledge Technologies: Representation and Remediation

Digitising cultural heritage material in a variety of forms 

Laser Scanning of Cultural Heritage

Anglo-Saxon language and culture;

Insular art and culture;

Movement of ideas from the Mediterranean world in the early medieval period; epigraphy; palaeography; codicology; textual transmission from orality to cyberculture