Fiona Murphy

Fiona Murphy is a socio-cultural anthropologist and academic staff member at Dublin City University's School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies (SALIS). She holds the role of Programme Chair for the Master's in Refugee Integration and specializes in Indigenous politics, refugee mobility, sustainability, and business/design anthropology. Her research explores forced displacement, trauma, memory, and reconciliation, with fieldwork in Australia, Ireland, the UK, and Turkey. She has contributed to policy dialogues through roles like Secretary of the Anthropological Association of Ireland and member of the European Association of Anthropologists' executive committee.

Research interests span displacement studies, including Stolen Generations reconciliation and asylum seeker integration. She advocates for creative and public anthropology, experimenting with ethnographic storytelling and multimedia formats. Her work intersects with business anthropology, exploring sustainable consumption and CSR in neoliberal contexts.

• Education: Doctorate in Anthropology (details not specified in text)
• Professional Roles:
  • Member of EASA Executive Committee (2021-2023)
  • Co-ordinator of Peace and Conflict Anthropology Network (EASA)
  • Vice-Chair of Anthropological Association of Ireland (until 2020)

Awards include the 2019 Vice Chancellor's Research Prize for collaborative work on displacement narratives. She actively engages in public scholarship through blogs (e.g., Allegra Lab), podcasts, and creative outputs like short stories (e.g., Earl Grey). Teaching focuses on decolonizing pedagogy and interdisciplinary approaches to displacement studies, having supervised 7 PhD candidates and taught across multiple universities.

Her research outputs bridge academic and creative domains, emphasizing empathy and dialogue in addressing displacement crises. Current projects include co-editing A Collection of Creative Anthropologies and exploring refugee food initiatives as sites of solidarity.