Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
Byrne, J.P , Creese, J. McMurray, R. Costello, R. Matthews, A. and Humphries, N. (2023) Feeling like the enemy: the emotion management and alienation of hospital doctors. Frontiers in Sociology. 8:1232555. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1232555
Byrne, J.P Humphries, N. McMurray, R. & Scotter, C. (2023) COVID-19 and Healthcare Worker Mental Well-being: Understanding the Impact and Response across selected WHO Europe Member States. Health Policy. Vol. 135. Article 104863
Griffin, M. Credland, N. Hamilton, P, Harness, O. & McMurray, R. (2023 online first) "Running towards the bullets”: Moral injury in Critical Care Nursing in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Journal of Management Inquiry.
Credland, N. Griffin, M. Hamilton, P, Harness, O. & McMurray, R. (2023 online first) The impact of Covid-19 on mental health and well-being in Critical Care Nurses – a longitudinal, qualitative study. Nursing in Critical Care.
McMurray, R. Credland, N. Griffin, M. Hamilton, P. Harnes, O. (In press) Toxic absence: why leader presence matters in times of crisis. Journal of Nursing Management. ISSN 0966-0429
McMurray, R (2022) Immersion, drowning, dispersion and resurfacing: Coping with the emotions of ethnographic management learning. Management Learning. 53(3)339-459.
Miko-Schefzig, K. Learmonth, M. & McMurray, R (2022) A different way of looking at things: the role of social science film in organization studies. Organization. 29(4) 653-672.
Harness, O. Jamie, K. & McMurray, R. (2021) ‘They’ve been with me the whole journey’: temporality, emotional labour and hairdressing work. Work Employment & Society. 35(6) 1073–1090
Ward, J. McMurray, R. & S Sutcliffe (2020) Working at the edge: emotional labour in the spectre of violence. Gender, Work & Organization. 27(1) 82-97.
Ward, J. & McMurray, R. (2019) Dealing with the Dead: Life as a Third Generation Independent Funeral Director. Work, Employment and Society. Vol. 33(4) 700–708
Hamilton, P. Redmand, T. & McMurray, R. (2019) Lower than a snake’s belly: discursive constructions of dignity in low status garbage work: Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 156, Issue 4, pp 889–901.
Linsley, R., McMurray, R. & Shrives, P. (2016). Consultation in the policy process: Douglasian cultural theory and the development of accounting regulation in the face of crisis. Public Administration. 94(4): 988-1004.
McMurray, R & Ward, J. (2014) 'Why would you do that?': defining emotional dirty work'. Human Relations. 67 (9) 1123-1143.
McMurray, R. (2014) Encouraging the managerial imagination: ethnography, smart phones and novel ways of seeing. International Journal of Work Organisation & Emotion. Vol. 6 (1) 24-39.
Matykiewicz, L. & McMurray R. (2013) Modern Matron: a "site" for leadership. Gender in Management. 28 (6): 321-337.
McMurray, R. (2011) The struggle to professionalize: an ethnographic account of the occupational position of Advanced Nurse Practitioners. Human Relations, Vol. 64 (6) 801-822.
Ward, J. & McMurray, R. (2011) The unspoken work of general practitioner receptionists: A re-examination of emotion management in primary care. Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 72 (10) Pages 1583-1587.
McMurray, R. Pullen, A & R Rhodes (2011) Ethical Subjectivity and Politics in Organizations: A Case of Health Care Tendering. Organization. Vol 18 (4) 541-561
McMurray, R. (2010) Living with neophilia: Case notes from the new NHS. Culture & Organization, Vol. 16 (1) 55-71.
McMurray R (2010) Tracing experiences of NHS change in England: a process philosophy perspective. Public Administration, Vol.88 (3) 724-740.
McMurray, R. and Pullen, A. (2008) Boundary Management, Interplexity & Nostalgia: Managing Marginal Identities in Public Health Working. International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 31, Issue 9 January 2008 , pages 1058 - 1078
Kane, P. Linstead, S. and McMurray, R (2007) Dialoguing Play (notes) ephemera, vol.7(2): 346-363
McMurray, R. (2007) Our reforms, our partnerships, same problems: The chronic case of the English NHS. Public Money & Management, Vol. 27 (1) pp77-82.
McMurray, R. (2006) From partition to partnership: managing collaboration within a curative framework for NHS care. International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 19 (3) pp238-249.
McMurray, R. Cheater, M. Weighall, A. Nelson, C. Schweiger, M. and S. Mukherjee. (2004) Managing controversy through consultation: a qualitative study of communication and trust around MMR vaccination decisions. British Journal of General Practice, Vol. 54 pp520-525
McMurray, R. and Cheater, F.M. (2004) Vision, permission and action: A bottom up perspective on the management of public health nursing. Journal of Nursing Management, Vol. 12 (1) pp43-50.
McMurray, R. and Cheater, F.M. (2003) Partnerships for Public Health: Expanding the Public Health Nursing Role Within PCTs'. Primary Health Care Research and Development, Vol. 4 pp57-68.
McMurray, R., Kendall, L., Quirk, J., Parsons, J.M, Veldtman, G.R., Lewin, R.J.P. and Sloper, P. (2001) A life less ordinary: growing up and coping with congenital heart disease ,International Journal of Coronary Health Care , Vol. 5 (1) pp51-57.
Heaton, J., McMurray, R., Sloper, P. and Nettleton, S. (2000) Rehabilitation and total hip replacement: patients' perspectives of provision, International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, Vol. 23 (4) pp253-259.
McMurray, R., Heaton., Sloper, P. and Nettleton, S. (2000). Variations in the provision of occupational therapy for patients undergoing primary elective total hip replacement in the United Kingdom, British Journal of Occupational Therapy , Vol. 63 (9), pp451-455.
McMurray, R., Heaton, J., Sloper, P. and Nettleton, S. (1999). Measurement of patient perceptions of pain and disability in total hip replacement: the place of the Oxford hip score in mixed methods. Quality in Health Care, Vol. 8 (4) pp.228-233.
Muncer, S., Bunton, R., McMurray, R. (1999) Network analysis as a tool for health promotion evaluation, The Journal of Contemporary Health, Vol. 8 pp8-12
Books
Moss, K & McMurray, R. (2017) Urban Portraits. North Yorks. Coffee Stop Publishing. ( https://www.facebook.com/CoffeeStopPublishing/)
Ward, J. & McMurray, R. (2016) The Dark Side of Emotional Labour. London: Routledge.
Edited Books & Series
McMurray, R & Pullen A Routledge Focus Series on Women Writers in Organization Studes (Series Editors)
McMurray, R & A Pullen (2019) Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management (Part of the Routledge Focus Series on Women Writers in Organization Studes). London: Routledge.
McMurray, R & A Pullen (2019) Beyond Rationality in Organization & Management (Part of the Routledge Focus Series on Women Writers in Organization Studes). London: Routledge
McMurray, R & A Pullen (2019) Gender, Embodiment & Fluidity in Organization and Management (Part of the Routledge Focus Series on Women Writers in Organization Studes). London: Routledge
McMurray & Pullen (2020) Rethinking Culture, Organization & Management (Part of the Routledge Focus Series on Women Writers in Organization Studes). London: Routledge
McMurray & Pullen (2020) Morality, Ethics and Responsibility in Organization and Management (Part of the Routledge Focus Series on Women Writers in Organization Studes). London: Routledge
Thomas, W. Anneli, H. Laulainen, S. & McMurray R (2018) The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care. London: Routledge
Book contributions
McMurray, R (forthcoming, 2023) Dirty work in Ödül Bozkurt, Rachael Finn, Edward Granter, Arun Kumar, Carolyn Hunter, Nina Kivinen, Leo McCann and Brian Wierman (editors) Encyclopaedia of Critical Management Studies. London: Edward Elgar.
McMurray, R. Credland, N. Griffin, M. Hamilton, P, Harness, O. & Kimberly, J (2023) Emotional labour: concept & practical categorizations in light of covid critical care nursing in Herzog, L. and Zimmermann, B. (editors) Shifting categories:
Unsettling the way we think about work. London: Routledge.
McMurray, R (2020) ‘Research and learning through film’ in Ward, J. & Shortt, H. (Eds). Using Arts-based Research Methods: Creative Approaches for Researching Business, Organisation and the Humanities. London: Routledge.
McMurray, R. (2015) Care as politics: ethics as violence, in Pullen A & Rhodes C (eds) The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organization. Oxon: Routledge.
McMurray, R. (2012) Embracing dirt in nursing matters, in Simpson, R.; Slutskaya, N; Lewis, P. & Höpfl (eds) in Doing dirty work: concepts and identities. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Ward, J. & McMurray, R. (2011) Perception & managing emotions in Butler, M. & Rose, E. (Eds) Introduction to organisational behaviour. London: CIPD.
Reports
Byrne JP, Humphries N and McMurray, R (2022) Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of the health workforce in WHO Europe Member States. RCSI GSM for the World Health Organisation.
Linsley, P. & McMurray, R (2018) North York Moors National Park Authority – Measuring Health and Well-being Impact. York: The York Management School.
McMurray, R. Ward, J & Brown, K. (2017) Working together: scoping research on Merging Teams – Workforce Capacity and Planning, Department of Health.
McMurray, R (2016) All in it together – Workforce Capacity and Planning, Department of Health.
McMurray, R & Ward, J (2014) Listening to Samaritans: The nature of the work.
McMurray, R & Ward, J (2014) Listening to Samaritans: Organising Samaritans.
Mannion, R et al. (2007) Measuring & Assessing Organisational Culture in the NHS (OC1) SDO: London.
Cheater, FM. Bonsall, K. McMurray, R. and Leese B (2007) What makes a good first contact nurse in primary care: a national study of patient perspectives and nurse aspirations. Department of Health.
McMurray R, Cheater FM, Weighall A, Nelson C, Schweiger M Mukherjee S (2004) Empowering parental decision-making in relation to a second dose of MMR vaccine: user perspectives on the effectiveness and continuity of multi-agency information transfer. NHS Executive.
Cheater, F. & McMurray, R. (2002) Public health nursing mapping exercise in Leeds health district, Public Health Research Group, University of Leeds.
Sheldon, T., Bradshaw, J., Baldwin, S., Sinclair, I., Burrows, R., McMurray, R. (2000) Methodologies for socially useful systematic reviews in the social policy, End of Award Report to ESRC.
Heaton, J., McMurray, R., Sloper, P. and Nettleton, S. (1999) The Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Therapies for Total Hip Replacement: patient and carer perspectives, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York.
Bunton, R., Muncer, S., Jackson, P., McMurray, R., Foreman, M. (1997) Health Through the Back Door: an evaluation of Middlesborough Health Challenge, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Teesside