Dr Jaron Murphy
- Principal Academic in Communication, Journalism and Literature
- 4th Floor, Weymouth House, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Dr Jaron Murphy is a national award-winning journalist with extensive international experience across print and digital news, mostly in senior editorial, production, and management roles. Among several academic qualifications with distinction, Dr Murphy holds a DPhil in Literature from the University of Oxford.
In the UK in 2018, he appeared on the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) list of most respected journalists following research by Cardiff University which asked journalists working in the UK and Ireland “which living journalist they felt most embodies the values of journalism that they respect and adhere to”.
Since 2023, Dr Murphy has served as the BA (Hons) Communication and Media Programme Leader at Bournemouth University. In higher and further education in the UK, he has previously led delivery of two BA (Hons) Journalism courses and the newsroom-based delivery of an NCTJ Diploma in Journalism course. He has also previously supported the running of NCTJ National Diploma and NQJ exams...
His academic publications have spanned journalism, literature, culture, the arts, and pedagogy. Recent examples include the chapter entitled "Orwell the Journalist" for The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell (Oxford University Press) as well as chapters on the evolution of literary or longform journalism in the digital age and on prioritising physical and online safety in preparing student journalists for working in a dangerous world (both for Routledge editions).
Forthcoming publications include a chapter on George Orwell (for an MLA edition) and a peer-reviewed article on T.S. Eliot (for The Journal of the T.S. Eliot Society UK).
A number of Dr Murphy's peer-reviewed articles have drawn on his discoveries in periodicals archives. His research has illuminated the works and lives of, and relation between, renowned 20th-century writers such as W.B. Yeats, George Orwell, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis.
Dr Murphy has also contributed to research on public (dis)trust in online news and on adjustments to journalism education amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In recent years, Dr Murphy has served as a journalism and education consultant for the Orwell Society and as Chair of the judging panel for the prestigious, UK-wide Orwell Society/National Union of Journalists Young Journalist’s Award.
Dr Murphy will be Chair of the judging panel for 2025 which includes inspirational journalists Hardeep Matharu, Tam Hussein, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, and Dorian Lynskey. Past judges have included Gary Younge (who went on to win the Orwell Prize for Journalism) and Marverine Cole (recognisable to many as a newsreader for ITV1's Good Morning Britain).
At Bournemouth University, Dr Murphy is a member of the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre as well as the Journalism Education Research Group.
He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK.
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