- 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
Dr. Oonagh Murphy is redefining how cultural organisations and civic society navigates the digital age
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 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
- 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.
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
