Sam Murphy

Dr Sam Murphy is Associate Head of School, Health and Social Care at The Open University. She was originally recruited to the OU in 2010 to contribute to its teaching and research expertise around death and dying. Her specific interest in this area is pregnancy loss, in particular, stillbirth and neonatal death. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Parenting the Stillborn: Gender, Identity and Bereavement.

Since joining the OU in 2010, Sam has worked on modules at all levels of the undergraduate programme in Health and Social Care, as well as the Masters in Advancing Healthcare Practice. At present she is also supervising four PhD students, one of whom is exploring experiences of miscarriage in the workplace.

Sam has been academic adviser on several co-produced television programmes (with both the BBC and Channel 4) which include the BAFTA-nominated documentary How to Die: Simon's Choice.

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