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Tom Murray is an academic and media producer who has worked in documentary production for over 20 years as a writer, director, and producer. His work has been selected for the world's most prestigious international film festivals, and won some of the highest accolades in the film and television industry.
Tom is recognised as one of Australia’s most distinguished screen production researchers, having won major screen industry awards, public recognition for scholarly work, university research awards and grants, and, in the Max Crawford Medal, the highest accolade for Humanities Research available to early career scholars in Australia. Through his work he has successfully communicated complex ideas in public-broadcast, gallery, festival, digital and web-based formats to millions of people, had popular and academic impact, and substantially enriched the cultural life of Australia.
Senior scholars have noted that ‘in the fields of history and media [Dr Murray] has made a globally exceptional contribution to public understanding both in Australia and across the world’ and is one of ‘Australia’s finest contemporary historical documentary makers’. ‘Dr Murray is one of the outstanding researchers in his generation'. Dr Murray's research provides 'a valuable discussion of the ethics of collecting knowledge, and the need to recognize the implicit obligations of reciprocity’.
Tom's work is deeply interdisciplinary and is interested in the history of colonialism, Indigenous culture, screen and audio production, documentary media, environmental history, ethics and reciprocity, embodied and affective knowledge, creative scholarship, and inter-cultural storytelling.
As a consultant to numerous state film funding agencies and international media organisations he has worked across Australia and the Pacific region to develop documentary and media skills and scholarship.
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Projects
ARC FT: The Mangatharra Road: a documentary-film history of first Australian trade
20/05/20 → 19/05/24
Project: Other
Audio-Visual Archive Rapid Prototyping Environment
Millard, K., Murray, T., Arrow, M., Griffen-Foley, B., Doyle, P., Pearlman, K., Hongisto, I., Morgan, A. & Barkat, I.
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
Field and Studio Sound Equipment Systems
Ellis, G., Millard, K., Knowles, J., Murray, T., Marynowsky, W., Pearlman, K., Barkat, I., Morgan, A., Ogilvie, J., Phelps, B., Bidault, M., Moore, D. R., Cooper, C., Burgess, N., Furduj, B., Mees, C. & O'Grady, P.
1/01/15 → 31/12/15
Project: Research
Screen Production Field System
Ellis, G., Millard, K., Delofski, M., Murray, T., Barkat, I., Knowles, J. & Long, J.
1/01/14 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
Research Outputs
Intensive mode screen production: an Australian case study in designing university learning and teaching to mirror 'real-world' creative production processes
Murray, T., Barkat, I. & Pearlman, K., 2020, In : Media Practice and Education. 21, 1, p. 18-31 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Skin of Others
Murray, T., 10 Jun 2020Research output: Non-traditional research output › Digital or Visual products
Douglas Grant and Rudolf Marcuse: wartime encounters at the edge of art
Murray, T. & Howes, H., 13 May 2019, In : History and anthropology. 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
How we tracked down the only known sculpture of a WWI Indigenous soldier
Murray, T. & Howes, H., 5 Jun 2019, The Conversation. Academic rigour, journalistic flair.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
Open Access
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Tracking down the only known sculpture of a WWI Indigenous soldier
Murray, T. & Howes, H., 6 Jun 2019, National Indigenous Television (NITV).Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
Open Access
Prizes
Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Award for Best Director of a Feature Documentary
Tom Murray (Recipient), 27 Sep 2008
Prize
Press / Media
The Skin of Others is an important documentary about Indigenous Australian veteran and activist Douglas Grant
11/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
The Skin of Others review – Balang Tom E Lewis's final film is a fascinating look at the life of Douglas Grant
10/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
Sydney Film Festival spotlights history and history-making
29/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
End of Life - Dying to Know Day
7/08/18 → 8/08/18
3 Media contributions
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities