Dr Marie Murphy PhD MSc BSc

Dr Marie Murphy

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
m.murphy.3@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Room 248 Murray Learning Centre
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Birmingham B15 2TT

Dr Marie Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Nutrition in the Public Health and Women’s Health Team. Marie’s research interests are centred around improving child and adolescent nutrition and addressing dietary inequalities and food insecurity through public health policy and intervention. Marie has led on studies evaluating school food policy in secondary schools and is currently leading a project exploring support for health eating in special schools. Marie is a member of the School for Public Health Research, working collaboratively with colleagues on a range of projects, including evaluation of the Holiday Activities and Food Programme. As a mixed methods researcher, Marie is interested in developing innovative and inclusive qualitative and mixed methods approaches for engaging young people in all stages of research.

Marie is Deputy Programme Lead for the Masters in Public Health, leading on Student Support.

 

Qualifications

  • PhD Medical Sciences 2019
  • PGA Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2016
  • MSc Public Health Nutrition 2007
  • BSc Biology 2003

Teaching

Marie is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and contributes to teaching on the Masters in Public Health and the MBChB. Marie co-leads to MPH Health Improvement module and is interested in incorporating novel teaching approaches, such as Open Space Learning, to public health teaching.

Teaching activities:

Teaching interests:

    • Public Health Nutrition
    • Qualitative Methods and Mixed Methods Research
    • Novel teaching approaches
    • Supervising postgraduate research students

Other activities

Within the Department, Marie is a representative for the Early Career Researcher Academic Group and co-founder of the Department's special interest group on food, nutrition and weight. Externally, Marie is a member of the , and a committee member for their ResNet Early Career Researcher network. Marie co-chairs the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine .

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Pokhilenko, I, Frew, E, Murphy, M & Pallan, M 2025, '', PLOS ONE, vol. 20, no. 1, e0310597.

Murphy, M, Coffey, A, Pallan, M & Oyebode, O 2024, '', BMC Public Health, vol. 24, no. 1, 1970.

Pallan, M, Murphy, M, Morrison, B, Sitch, A, Adamson, A, Bartington, S, Dobell, A, Duff, R, Frew, E, Griffin, T, Hurley, K, Lancashire, E, McLeman, L, Passmore, S, Pokhilenko, I, Rowland, M, Ravaghi, V, Spence, S & Adab, P 2024, '', The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, vol. 21, 123.

Pallan, M, Murphy, M, Morrison, B, Pokhilenko, I, Sitch, A, Frew, E, Rawdin, C, Adams, R, Adamson, A, Bartington, S, Dobell, A, Duff, R, Griffin, T, Hurley, K, Lancashire, E, McLeman, L, Passmore, S, Ravaghi, V, Spence, S & Adab, P 2024, '', Public Health Research, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 1-167.

Kipping, R, Pallan, M, Hannam, K, Willis, K, Dobell, A, Metcalfe, C, Jago, R, Johnson, L, Langford, R, Martin, CK, Hollingworth, W, Cochrane, M, White, J, Blair, P, Toumpakari, Z, Taylor, J, Ward, D, Moore, L, Reid, T, Pardoe, M, Wen, L, Murphy, M, Martin, A, Chambers, S & Simpson, SA 2023, '', BMC Public Health, vol. 23, no. 1, 1475.

Murphy, M, Mensah, D, Mylona, E & Oyebode, O 2021, '', BMC Research Notes, vol. 14, no. 1, 365 .

Murphy, M, Boardman, F, Robertson, W & Johnson, R 2021, '', Child: Care, Health & Development, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 597-607.

Murphy, M, Pallan, M, Lancashire, E, Duff, R, Adamson, A, Bartington, S, Frew, E, Griffin, T, Hurley, K, Parry, J, Passmore, S, Ravaghi, V, Sitch, A, Spence, S, Rowland, MK, Wheeldon, S & Adab, P 2020, '', BMJ open, vol. 10, no. 10, e042931.

Johnson, R, Murphy, M & Griffiths, F 2019, '', Methodological Innovations, vol. 12, no. 2.

Murphy, M, Johnson, R, Parsons, NR & Robertson, W 2019, '', BMC Public Health, vol. 19, 1585 , pp. 1-15.

Al鈥怟hudairy, L, Loveman, E, Colquitt, JL, Mead, E, Johnson, R, Fraser, H, Olajide, J, Murphy, M, Velho, RM, O'Malley , C, Azevedo, LB, Ells, LJ, Metzendorf, M-I & Rees, K 2017, '', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 6.

Murphy, M, Robertson, W & Oyebode, O 2017, '', Current Obesity Reports, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 314-323.

Robertson, W, Murphy, M & Johnson, R 2016, '', Paediatrics and Child Health (United Kingdom), vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 212-218.

Chapter

Murphy, M & Pallan, M 2023, . in GS Lalli, A Turner & M Rutland (eds), Food Futures in Education and Society. 1st edn, Routledge, pp. 87-101.

Conference article

GENIUS network, Woodside, JV, O'Kane, N, Pallan, M, Evans, CEL, Defeyter, G, Brownlee, I, Murphy, M, Parnham, JC, Lalli, GS, Bryant, M, McKinley, MC, Gallagher, AM, Schliemann, D, McConnell, C, Olgacher, D & Spence, S 2024, '', The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.