- Coworking Spaces, Accelerators and Incubators: Emerging Forms of Museum Practice in an Increasingly Digital World Murphy, Oonagh. 2018. Coworking Spaces, Accelerators and Incubators: Emerging Forms of Museum Practice in an Increasingly Digital World. Museum International, 70(1-2), pp. 62-75. ISSN 1350-0775
- Museum Studies as Critical Praxis: Developing an Active Approach to Research, Teaching and Practice Murphy, Oonagh. 2018. Museum Studies as Critical Praxis: Developing an Active Approach to Research, Teaching and Practice. Tate Papers, 29(1), ISSN 1753-9854
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)
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- The Digital Transformation of Cultural Practice Murphy, Oonagh. 2024. The Digital Transformation of Cultural Practice. In: Christos Carras, ed. The Handbook of Cultural Work. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, pp. 273-282. ISBN 9781350359468
- Power, Data and Control: AI in The Museums Murphy, Oonagh. 2023. Power, Data and Control: AI in The Museums. In: Sonja Thiel and Johannes C. Bernhardt, eds. AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, pp. 73-82. ISBN 9783837667103
- Innovation, data and social responsibility Murphy, Oonagh and Villaespesa, Elena. 2021. Innovation, data and social responsibility. In: Haitham Eid and Melissa Forstrom, eds. Museum Innovation: Building More Equitable, Relevant and Impactful Museums. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367481407
Article
- This is not an apple! Benefits and challenges of applying computer vision to museum collections Villaespesa, Elena and Murphy, Oonagh. 2021. This is not an apple! Benefits and challenges of applying computer vision to museum collections. Museum Management and Curatorship, 36(4), pp. 362-383. ISSN 0964-7775
- CultureLab – Don’t Believe the Stereotype, Ulster Museum, Belfast Murphy, Oonagh. 2020. CultureLab – Don’t Believe the Stereotype, Ulster Museum, Belfast. Museums Journal, pp. 40-43. ISSN 0027-416X
- When a 1981 Diary Meets Twitter: Reclaiming a teenage girl’s ordinary experience of the Northern Irish Troubles Murphy, Oonagh and Aguiar, Laura. 2019. When a 1981 Diary Meets Twitter: Reclaiming a teenage girl’s ordinary experience of the Northern Irish Troubles. British Journal for Military History, 5(1), pp. 49-70. ISSN 2057-0422
Professional Activity
- Submission of evidence to the UK Parliament House of Lords ‘A Creative Future’ Inquiry Musgrave, George; Dinardi, Cecilia; Franklin, Michael; Murphy, Oonagh and Prime, Sian. 2022. Submission of evidence to the UK Parliament House of Lords ‘A Creative Future’ Inquiry.
Report
- AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit (Chinese Edition) Murphy, Oonagh; Villaespesa, Elena; Duester, Emma Louise and Lin, Ye. 2024. AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit (Chinese Edition). Discussion Paper. Goldsmiths, University of London, London.
- 人工智能:博物馆规划工具包 [AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit] Murphy, Oonagh; Villaespesa, Elena; Duester, Emma Louise and Lin, Ye. 2024. 人工智能:博物馆规划工具包 [AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit]. Discussion Paper. Goldsmiths, University of London, London.
- 10 idées pour un leadership numérique de valeur dans les musées Murphy, Oonagh. 2024. 10 idées pour un leadership numérique de valeur dans les musées. Other. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland.