Dr Alex Murray
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Alex joined the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR) in 2021, as a Research Fellow working on the ERSC-funded project Voicing loss: Meanings and implications of participation by bereaved people in inquests.
Alex has an eclectic academic and professional background, beginning her studies in the humanities and spending several years in the charity sector. She completed a BA in History and a Masters in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. During this time she developed an interest in performativity, gender, and sexuality, with her thesis focusing on Mary Frith and female cross-dressing in 17th Century London.
After completing these studies, she spent several years in the charity sector working for health and social care charities in user involvement and quality assurance. Alex worked with people with learning disabilities, mental health support needs and people who had cared for someone living with a terminal illness.
Alex returned to academia in 2018 and she is currently completing her PhD at the Open University in the School of Law. Her research takes a socio-legal approach and examines how disability is understood and defined in UK welfare law, with a particular focus on invisible disabilities and identity performances during disability assessments and tribunal hearings. Alex blends aspects of performativity, new materialism, disability studies and sociology to examine these spaces within the Personal Independence Payment process.
Her thesis is titled ‘Amplifying Disabled Identities: Invisible Disabilities in the Personal Independence Payment Assessment and Appeal Processes’.
ORCID
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Publications
Publications
Book Section
- Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex and Rumble, H. and Templeton, L. (2024) Coronial investigations: past deaths and future lives. In: Jones, I. and Trabsky, M. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Law and Death. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781032303383. (In Press)
Monograph
- Jacobson, Jessica and Bhardwa, Bina and Murray, Alex (2024) 'The internet acts as a level playing field. All it takes is one slip-up.' Online fraud and the sense of pervasive threat. London, UK: Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck.
- Murray, Alexandra and Roberts, M. and Evans, A. and Davies, S. and Smith, F. (2024) Behind the screen: perceptions and experiences of online fraud victimisation. Crest Advisory.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex and Templeton, L. (2024) Principles for Practice No. 1 - Humanity at the heart of the coronial process: information and communication. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex and Templeton, L. (2024) Principles for Practice No. 2 - Humanity at the heart of the coronial process: quality of interactions at inquest hearings. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex and Templeton, L. (2024) Principles for Practice No. 3 - Humanity at the heart of the coronial process: Respecting and including the deceased person. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex and Templeton, L. (2024) Voicing Loss - Policy Brief No. 1: Clarifying the role and remit of the coroner. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex and Templeton, L. (2024) Voicing Loss - Policy Brief No. 2: Locating bereaved people within the coronial process. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Templeton, L. and Murray, Alex (2024) ‘I feel like I’ve been swept along on a tsunami’: Bereaved people’s experiences of coroners’ investigations and inquest. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Templeton, L. and Murray, Alex (2024) ‘I needed more than answers‘: Bereaved people’s expectations of the coronial process. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Templeton, L. and Murray, Alex (2024) ‘Playing a game you didn’t fully understand, by their rules’: The aspiration to locate bereaved people ‘at the heart’ of the coroner service. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Templeton, L. and Murray, Alex (2024) Research context and methodology: The Voicing Loss project on the role of bereaved people in the coronial proces. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
- Templeton, L. and Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex (2024) ‘The more traumatic inquests stick with you forever. But you can remember them all’: How witnesses experience the inquest process. Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Univerity of Birkbeck, and Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath.
Other
- Jacobson, Jessica and Murray, Alex and Templeton, L. (2024) Written evidence for the Justice Committee follow-up inquiry on the Coroner Service from Birkbeck and the University of Bath. London, UK: Justice Committee of the UK Parliament.