Claire Murphy-Morgan

Senior Research Assistant

Department: Psychology

I am currently a full-time Senior Research Assitant for Remote Healthcare for Eating Disorders throughout COVID-19 (RHED-C) based in PaCT lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.

I am a member of the North East Hoarding Research Group, and have recently completed a 12 month project funded by Sir Halley Stewart Trust in partnership with Gateshead Council exploring the impact of Hoarding and Social Networks on attitudes towards older adults in the North East of England. I am also currently part of a research team exploring help seeking-behaviours in individuals who hoard.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Research Interests:

Remote healthcare interventions for eating disorders

The impact of hoarding behaviours and social networks on attitudes towards supported housing

Developing multi-agency, and person-led, self-help, appraoches to dealing with the impact of hoarding behaviours

Parapsychology and life after death beliefs

How parapsychology and psychical research is disucssed in cyberspace (for which I cam currently working towards a PhD by publication as Alex Tanous Foundation Scholar)

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
“In the Only House in the Whole World but Everyone Doing the Same” Co-designed Animation as a Method of Critical Enquiry to Explore HCI Considerations for Remote Eating Disorder Support, Murphy-Morgan, C., Collingham, H., Shaddock, H., Branley-Bell, D. 11 May 2024, Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24), New York, US, ACM
“Making It Easier to Live, You Know?” A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Hoarding Behaviours and Social Networks on Older People’s Supported Housing Decisions, Murphy-Morgan, C., Hodgson, P., Pollet, T., Neave, N. 23 Jul 2024, In: Health and Social Care in the Community
Parapsychology and Cyberpsychology, Murphy-Morgan, C., Cooper, C. Jun 2024, In: Australian Journal of Parapsychology
“Some distance between us”: a UK mixed methods study exploring experiences of remote care for eating disorders during COVID-19, Murphy-Morgan, C., Brown, R., Love, C., Branley-Bell, D. 6 Jun 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry
'Stepping outside the red line': An exploration of two co-design methodologies exploring lived experiences of remote support for eating disorders throughout COVID-19 and beyond, Murphy-Morgan, C., Collingham, H., Malowaniec, P., Shaddock, H., Branley-Bell, D. 21 Jun 2024, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design4Health, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University
Assessing Public Perspectives of Parapsychology through Facebook: A Discourse Analysis Utilizing Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement, Murphy-Morgan, C., Smith, L. 3 Aug 2023, Abstracts of Presented Papers , Parapsychological Association
Designing remote care services for eating disorders: HCI considerations and provocations based upon service user experience and requirements, Branley-Bell, D., Murphy-Morgan, C. 23 Feb 2023
Health Stigma on Twitter: Investigating the Prevalence and Type of Stigma Communication in Tweets about Different Conditions and Disorders, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Coventry, L., Branley-Bell, D., Murphy-Morgan, C., Durrant, A. 13 Oct 2023, In: Frontiers in Communication
It’s not all about control: Challenging mainstream framing of eating disorders, Branley-Bell, D., Talbot, C., Downs , J., Figueras, C., Green, J., McGilley, B., Murphy-Morgan, C. 19 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Eating Disorders
Assessing public perspectives of parapsychology through YouTube commentaries, Murphy-Morgan, C., Cooper, C., Smith , L. 31 Dec 2022, In: Australian Journal of Parapsychology

Qualifications

Psychology MSc November 08 2017
Graduate Member (MBPsS) British Psychological Society (BPS) 2021

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