
Dr. Elke Murdock
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Fakultät oder Zentrum | Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Erziehungswissenschaften und Sozialwissenschaften | ||||||||
Department | Fachbereich Verhaltens- und Kognitionswissenschaften | ||||||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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Büroadresse | MSH, E04 25-180 | ||||||||
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Telefon | (+352) 46 66 44 9774 | ||||||||
Gesprochene Sprachen | English, French, German, Luxembourgish | ||||||||
Forschungsaufenthalte in | Germany, United Kingdom, USA | ||||||||
Research Focus: Developmental and (cross-)cultural psychology over the lifespan with a special focus on identity development in multicultural and multilingual contexts. How do people living within culturally diverse societies, experience this meeting of cultures?
Elke Murdock is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Lifespan Development, Family & Culture (LDFC) within the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) , at the University of Luxembourg (UL). Within her research area of living with diversity, both within individuals (identity construal) and within multicultural and multilingual societies, she focuses on three different, yet interlinked, research topics:
- Attitudes towards multiculturalism, especially from the perspective of the host society. This also touches on the development of national identities and supra-national identities such as European identity or the identification with all humanity (IWAH), and their relationship with each other.
- Biculturalism – coming from or belonging to more than one culture. A better understanding of biculturalism, the techniques bicultural individuals employ to negotiate and resolve cultural differences within themselves and with others can contribute to an improved understanding of intercultural relations.
- Human development occurs in environments that are nested and change over time. Individuals are embedded in families, and these in turn in cultural contexts. Therefore, intergenerational value transmission processes and factors influencing these are also central to her research.
Elke Murdock joined the UL in 2010 as an FNR–funded PhD student. Her PhD thesis on “Multiculturalism within the Luxembourg Context” was voted best PhD thesis the Humanities Faculty in 2014. She then joined the Institute for Research on Generations and the Family as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the project Intergeneration Relations in the Light of Migration and Aging (IRMA, PI Prof. I. Albert). Dr Murdock obtained a CORE Junior Track Grant from the FNR. Her project Subjective Well-being and Identity Construal in a Changing World (SWITCH) (2017 – 2021).
Dr Murdock's book Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference. Experiences of Culture Contact was published in the Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series in 2016. => image of book
Prior to (re-)joining the world of academia, Elke Murdock worked in strategic development and planning in the Financial Services Industry. From 1990 to 2002 she was employed by an Edinburgh based Life Assurance company and participated in joint venture projects in Sweden, Germany, Luxembourg, and Italy. Prior to joining the UL she worked in Investor Communications in Luxembourg.
Her academic training started at the University of the Saarland (Germany) where she studied psychology. Her diploma thesis focused on cultural identity: Kulturelle Identität – eine Konzeptanalyse im interdisziplinären Raum. An Erasmus stipend took her to the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) and a Fulbright scholarship to Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (USA) where she earned a BA and an MSc degree (Thesis: An analysis of the cross-cultural content of introductory psychology textbooks). She also holds an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School (Thesis: The Bundesbank from an Anglo-German Perspective).
Last updated on: Freitag, den 28. April 2023
Research Interests
My research focus is on living well with diversity – within individuals (biculturalism – the identity construal processes) and attitudes towards plurally composed societies.
Research Projects:
FNR CORE junior project Grant: Subjective Wellbeing and Identity Construal in a Changing World (SWITCH), Project No C16/SC/11337403 (2017 – 2021).
Icelandic Research Fund (IRF) – External expert in project: Inclusive societies? The integration of immigrants in Iceland. PI – Prof. M. Meckl, University of Akureyri, Duration: 2018 – 2020.
Rannís ID: 184903-051
Cultural Meanders of Happiness Study: Cooperation partner in this international consortium comprising over 40 countries. The study aim is to investigate across cultures: (1) the happiness of families, (2) the valuation of different types of happiness (3) the search for their antecedents in self-construals, and (4) the ‘emotional environment’ created by societies. (2018 - )
PI: Dr. Kuba Krys, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology,
COST Working Group on Kinkeeping within transnational families in a global and digital era.
COST Action CA21143 Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy). (2022- )
COST Working Group on Economic exclusion. COST Action CA15122 Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy (ROSEnet) (2016 - 2020)
Key FHSE Research Area: Migration and Inclusive Societies (MIS) https://mis.uni.lu/
MIS Consortium Member since 2019. Contributions:
Co-host MIS Fellowship October/ November 2022: Iwona Wrońska works as a Professor of Political Science at the Department of Law and Social Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland.
- Keynote: Evolution of Canadian immigration policy. Relocation and measures towards inclusiveness (21.11.2022)
Co-host MIS Fellowship August/September 2022: Lado Gamsakhurdia, professor of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology at the psychology department of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
- Keynote: Culture – a semiotic construction? Attempts at deconstruction (27.09.2022)
Co-host Workshop - Mediated Encounters (15.06.2022) at UL
Co-host Cultural Psychology Summer School (31.05. – 02.06.2022) titled: Cultural Psychology, Lifespan and Transitions – Stability and Change Revisited.
- Keynote Prof. W. Greve Inkompetenzkompensationskompetenzentwicklungsprozess on 02.06.2022
Open-Mis-Understandings (25.01.2022) –The notion of Difference. Debate with Prof. Till Dembeck
Co-Organiser - Doctoral Course Current Approaches in Migration Studies: Resilience and conviviality (2021 – 2022)
Professional Services:
European Psychologist Federation (EFPA) -Board Member - Cultural and Ethnic Diversity (CultEthnic)
IMISCOE: Member – Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Group (DivCult).
Member of
EARA: European Association for Research on Adolescence
ETMU: The Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration, Finland.
IACCP: International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
SLP: Société Luxembourgeoise de Psychologie (SLP.lu) – former Board Member
Peer Reviewer (Ad hoc)
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (BLC)
Culture & Psychology (CultPsy)
Frontiers in Psychology – Review Editor for Personality and Social Psychology
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (IPBS)
International Journal of Intercultural Relations (IJIR)
Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (ORPC)
The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry (GeroPsych)
Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft (zfer)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Political Science Annual, Kielce, Poland
Last updated on: 28 Apr 2023
Last updated on: 28 Apr 2023
I teach, or have taught in the following programs of study:
Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BAP)
- Observational methods (2018- )
- Empirical Practical Course (2012, 2013, 2017)
- Bachelor Thesis Colloquium (2020- )
- Bachelor Thesis Supervision (2012- )
Since 2021, I am Deputy Course Director of the Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BAP).
Bachelor en Sciences Sociales et Éducatives (CSL) (BSSE, 2017 – 2020)
- Development under a lifespan developmental perspective
Master of Science in Psychology: Evaluation and Assessment (MAPEA. 2020- )
- Social, emotional, and cultural skills
Master en Gérontologie
- Qualitative methods (2022 - )
At the International School of Management (ISM), Cologne, Germany I have taught the course on Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology (2015 -2016)
Doctoral Training
Doctoral School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (DSHSS, 2017 -)
- Co-Organiser and lecturer in the Annual International Summer School on Cultural Psychology
- Co-Organiser and lecturer in Current Approaches in Migration Studies.
University of Akureyri, Iceland (2020)
- Co-Organiser – Pre-Conference Doctoral Summer School. The Role of Universities in Addressing Societal Challenges and Fostering Democracy: Inclusion, Migration, and Education for Citizenship, April 2 -3 2020.
Doctoral Supervision
PhD From object to subject in Luxembourg – Refugees’ identity construction, trust building and integration through journeys in entrepreneurship (R.L. Iannone)
PhD – Co-supervision: From gender stereotypes to hostile sexism (Working title, M. Hale)
PhD – Co-supervision: (De-) Scaffolding and the evolution of autonomy in the teaching and learning process - an intergenerational case study (Working title, L. Geberth)
PhD – external expert: Profession – Identität – Heterogenität: Diskursive Positionierungen von Luxemburgischen Grundschullehrkräften (Jean- Marc Wagner, 2021)
Mentoring
Fulbright Scholar (2022/23)
Saki Naki – Acculturation experiences of Japanese and Americans and in Luxembourg: A qualitative study
SLP – Award – best MPI thesis
Whilst serving as Board Member of the Luxembourg Psychologist Association (Société Luxembourgoise de Psychologie, SLP) I initiated, together with the MPI study program director this award honoring the best MPI dissertation. I served on the awarding committee twice and was privileged to convey the award in 2021 and 2022.
Master Supervision
Master of Science in Psychology: Psychological Intervention (MPI)
Marques (2018) The Influence of School Ethnic Composition on Adolescents’ Social Network in Luxembourg: An Analysis of Native and Immigrant Students. (with Dr. I. Albert)
Master of Psychotherapy
Minelli (2020) Familienkultur und Wohlbefinden: kultureller Kontext und Auswirkungen während der COVID-Pandemie
Master en Gérontologie
Lucas (ongoing). Perception of aging by older drug addicts
Hoffmann (2017) Wahrgenommene Rechte von Menschen mit Demenz (with Dr. T. Boll)
Master Management und Coaching im Bildungs- und Sozialwesen (MAMACO)
Filbig (2018) Arbeitslosigkeit in der späten Erwerbsphase Eine Studie zu Bedürfnissen, Attributionen und Bewältigungsformen (with Dr. T. Boll)
Karpen (2016) Lebensplanungen der Babyboomer der Jahrgänge 1955 – 1969 für die Zeit nach der Pensionierung. (with Prof. D. Ferring)
Bachelor Supervison
BAP – Bachelor Académique en Psycholgie (Main tutor –over 30)
Bachelor in Sozial- und Erziehungswissenschaften
Giersch (2019) Junge Wilde, Grenzgänger, Systemsprenger, Endstation? Sichtweise der Lehrer bezüglich der Übergangsentscheidung bei Schülern mit Lernschwierigkeiten.
Last updated on: 28 Apr 2023
My work is situated in the dynamic multicultural context of Luxembourg, and I have engaged in several science communication activities in Luxembourg and beyond.
FNR related science communication
FNR - Pairing Scheme (2019) – Politics meets Research (FNR cooperation with the Luxembourgish Parliament)
FNR - Chercheur à l’Ecole, Lycée classique d’Echternach, 25.10.2011 ; Atert-Lycée Redange, 25.10.2012 ; Athénée de Luxembourg, 04.03.2015. ; Lycee Ermisinde, Mersch, 28.03.2017
FNR - Her studies were reported in the FNR Highlights series – Research with impact, as well as recently on Science.lu in German and French.
Science communication
Von Multi- zu Polykulturalismus. Leben mit Diversität in Luxemburg. Forum, Juli/ August 2020, S. 17 – 20.
Drei Fragen an Dr. Elke Murdock, Télécran, No. 49, 2016, S. 13.
What is Luxembourg? Delano, 02/ 2016. S. 26 – 27.
Bunt, bunter Luxemburg. Luxemburg zieht Menschen mit komplexen Biographien wie ein Magnet an. Lëtzebuerger Journal, 26.11.2016, S. 6.
Conference contributions
«Living with diversity, opportunities and challenges” – Conférence / Débat Living together in diversity at school, ASTI 40years, Lycée Michel Lucius, Luxembourg, 12.02.2020 https://www.asti.lu/retour-sur-levenement-diversite-a-lecole/.
Following this event, an interview about her research was published in the Tageblatt on 17.02.2020. https://www.tageblatt.lu/headlines/wie-multikulti-in-luxemburg-funktionieren-kann/
« Multikulturelle Gesellschaft : Facetten des Erlebens von Vielfalt“ – Conférence Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes sur le Luxembourg, Chambre des Députés du Luxembourg, 28.01.2020
„Luxemburg – Eine Fallstudie zu Multikulturalismus und Integration“ – Conférence „Résodiff“ Orientation – Désoreintation. L’intégration à Differdange sous toutes ses facettes vue pare les professionelles. Château de la Miami University, Differdange, 16.11.2018
“Identitéit an Integratioun vu multikulturelle jugendlëchen zu Lëtzebuerg - Was ist Identität aus psychologischer Sicht?“ Journées Sociales 2017, Identitéit: Gëschter, Haut, … muer? Forum Geesseknäppchen; 17.11. 2017.
“Multiculturalism within the context of Luxembourg”. Key note as part of the Luxembourg Evening
“Multiculturalism and Multilingualism” organized by the Cultural Association of Finland and the Embassy of Luxembourg, Copenhagen; Helsinki, Finland; 22.09.2015.
„Luxemburg: Eine Fallstudie zu Multikulturalismus und Identität“ Invited lecture Erwuesse Bildung Luxembourg and Luxembourg School of Religion and Society (LSRS), Nationalbibliothek Luxemburg, 28.11.2016.
“Multikulturalismus – multiplicity”. Key note – Diversity Day, Ville de Luxembourg; 12.05.2015.
“On being bi- and multicultural: How do adolescents growing up in a multi-cultural environment organize and experience their different nationalities?” Parent Seminar, Ecole Européenne II; 05.03.2015.
Panel Expert - at CinEAST flim festival, Luxembourg
2022 - Participation in a debate about achievements-focused parenting following the showing of the film “Every single minute” by Erika Hníková (trailer https://www.cineuropa.org/…39/)
2018 - Interactive debate about "Women and ageing in contemporary society" following the screening of the film "Ice Mother" (CZ-SK-FR, 2017, 106 min) by Bohdan Sláma.
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Last updated on: 28 Apr 2023

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in Meckl, Markus; Gunnþórsdóttir, Hermina (Eds.) Samfélag fjölbreytileikans: Samskipti heimamanna og innflytjenda á Íslandi. (2020)

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in Klos, Agnieszka; Misiuna, Jan; Pachocka, Marta; Szczerba-Zawada, Aleksandra (Eds.) Connecting the European Union of shared aims, freedoms, values and responsibilities. European Union and its values: freedom, solidarity, democracy (2020)
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2018

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2017

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2016

Book published by Palgrave Macmillan (2016)

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2014

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2013

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2012

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in Ethnicity Ethnic Minorities and Migrants (2012), 2(7), 70-85

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