Dr. Conor Murray

Dr Conor Murray is Lecturer in Criminology within the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University (UU). He is the Director of Postgraduate Research within the School. He is a board member of UU’s Doctoral College and is UU’s Institutional Director for the ESRC Northern Ireland and North-East England Doctoral Training Partnership. Conor also sits on the Executive Board of NIACRO, an NGO dedicated to reducing crime and its impact on people and communities. Conor has a distinct focus on widening access to higher education and he is the Course Director of ‘Stay Onside: Applied Football Studies’, a Personal and Professional Development Course delivered to prisoners in HMP Maghaberry. The course is delivered as an academically accredited sport-based intervention, which he co-delivers with the Irish Football Association. Conor’s research interests include young adulthood, gender, sexuality, policing, religion, and sport-based interventions. In addition to book chapters, peer reviewed articles and reports, he has published two books: a research monograph titled Young Men, Masculinities and Imprisonment: An Ethnographic Study in NI (Palgrave, 2023); and a co-edited book titled Crime, Justice and Religion: A Critical Appraisal (Routledge, 2022).