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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 and Head of the Department of Digital Humanities, School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork, Ireland. 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. National Roles: Co Chair ACERR The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository ... to 2020 National Coordinator of DARIAH-IE; the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. ... to 2022 Board Member DRI the Digital Repository of Ireland Specialising in the concept of knowledge representation, specifically 'textuality' and the impact of text technologies on the world, from Socrates to XR, with a particular focus on the Digital Humanities. Research explores the integration of emerging digital technologies (with)in the humanities in scholarship and in pedagogy. She has 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

Research Interests

Textualities - Digital Arts, Humanities and Pedagogy Exploring the integration of emerging digital technologies (with)in the humanitiesKnowledge Technologies: Representation and Remediation Digitising cultural heritage material in a variety 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 participants 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

Teaching Activities

I teach topics from the earliest literatures in English to the consideration of digital textualities and new modes of textual production in contemporary culture, knowledge technologies and remediation.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

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