Job Quality,  Workplace Digitalisation and Technology, HR Analytics  Gender Equality in the labour market, Formal and informal care work, Employee representation and voice,  Trade union organising                                                         

    Main teaching areas: Employment Relations, Human Resource Analytics, Human Resource Management, Sustainable Work, Digital Transformation of the Employment Relationship,  Professional Skills .

Extensive experience in teaching at undergraduate, post-graduate and post experience levels within the University as well as engaged in programme development for specialist topics for external network groups promoting skill development in emerging areas and tailoring content to key sectors. 

Led international curriculum development for use in leadership development programmes (EU funded project).     

Dr. Caroline Murphy is Associate Professor of Employment Relations, and Director of the MSc in HRM at the  Department of Work and Employment Studies at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. She is also an Associate Research Fellow at the ESRC funded DIGIT centre for digital futures at work.

Caroline is a former Industrial Relations Research Trust and Irish Research Council funded research scholar. She completed her PhD in 2011 in the area trade union organising and collective representation in the workplace. She also holds a Masters in International Tourism from the University of Limerick.

She lectures in Employment Relations, HR Analytics, Human Resource Management and Professional Skills. Caroline has extensive experience in teaching at undergraduate, post-graduate and post experience levels, and in the delivery of courses to specific industry groups. She has also consultancy experience in performance management and competency framework development. She has worked on a variety of research projects including: Union Organising in Ireland (2008-2010 funded by the Industrial Relations Research Trust, Trinity College Dublin),  A Study of Workplace Bullying in Ireland (2011-2012, funded by the INMO), Gender Equality in Decision-Making (2014-2016, funded by the European Commission), A Study of Zero Hours Work in Ireland (2015, funded by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation) and Reconciling Employment and elderCare Together (2016, funded by the Irish Council). On Call in Industrialised Economies (the International Labour Organisation, 2018), The Impact of Technology on Worker (Financial Services Union, 2019-21), HR Practices in Ireland (CIPD, 2017-2022),and Digitalisation and Work Design (2022) Her current research interests include job quality and precarious employment, female labour market participation, formal and informal care work, employee representation, and the impact of techology on work.