Dr Órla Murphy

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

EU Roles: 

National Coordinator of DARIAH-IE; the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.

Irish National Representative on the Scientific Committee of CoST-EU; Co-operation in Science and Technology.

Irish National Representative on the SCI SWG Social and Cultural Innovation Special Working Group of ESFRI  the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. 

National Roles: 

Board Member DRI the Digital Repository of Ireland 

Co Chair ACERR The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository in Ireland

University Roles: 

Co-Chair – Digital Education Advisory Group, University College Cork.

Deputy chair – Learning and Teaching Committee, University College Cork.

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.

Her 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, malleable across many platforms and of interest to a wide range of citizens.