Dr. Craig D. Murray is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Health Psychologist at the Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, where he works in the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training programme. He earned his B.A. Hons in Psychology from the University of Manchester in 1995, a PhD in Psychology in 2003 from Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Doctorate in Health Psychology from Staffordshire University in 2013. His teaching focuses on qualitative research methods in clinical and health psychology, especially Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), thematic analysis, and discourse analysis. His research interests include identity, stigma, sexuality, and embodiment in the context of chronic physical health conditions, physical disability, and visible difference. He has developed and evaluated virtual reality for the treatment of phantom limb pain following limb loss and published extensively on amputation and artificial limb use. He is the editor of Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain (Springer, New York).
