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My work combines applied research with academic leadership. I publish where evidence can improve practice in online higher education, including studies of student support, information quality and online age assurance. The outputs below are listed by type, with the related article or project on this site where there is one.
Doctoral thesis
Muirhead, J. (2022). Informative web content guidelines: A practitioner model for online content effectiveness (Thesis). University of Salford. Read in the Salford repository. See the IWCG project.
Book chapters
Kreps, D., & Muirhead, J. (2019). Introduction to understanding digital events. In D. Kreps (Ed.), Understanding digital events: Bergson, Whitehead, and the experience of the digital (pp. 1–13). Routledge. Related article
Conference proceedings
Kreps, D., Rowe, F., & Muirhead, J. (2020). Understanding digital events: Process philosophy and causal autonomy. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 6133–6142). Read the full paper · Related article
Muirhead, J. (2019). Assessing online content quality through user surveys and web analytics. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 433–436). Association for Computing Machinery.
Conference presentations and posters
Muirhead, J., & Dale, L. (2026, July 8–9). Self-diagnostic study skills tool for online PGT students [Poster presentation]. University of Hull Teaching & Learning Conference, Hull, United Kingdom. Related article
Muirhead, J., & Dale, L. (2025, July 9–10). Enhancing study skills for online postgraduate students: An interventionary approach [Conference presentation]. University of Hull Teaching & Learning Conference, Hull, United Kingdom. Related article · Academic Study Skills project
Kreps, D., & Muirhead, J. (2018). ‘Infomateriality’: Whitehead and digital experience amongst the over 65s [Conference presentation]. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Conference, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Muirhead, J. (2018). A framework for user-centred design technique selection for quality online content [Doctoral consortium paper]. UK Academy of Information Systems (UKAIS) Doctoral Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Muirhead, J. (2018). Information quality analysis of online content [Doctoral consortium paper]. British HCI Doctoral Consortium, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Muirhead, J. (2017). Constructionist approaches to teaching hands-on app development [Conference presentation]. EngageHEI, Salford, United Kingdom.
Muirhead, J. (2017). How do user-centred techniques contribute to the design process to create online content that is informative and accessible? [Doctoral consortium paper]. UK Academy of Information Systems (UKAIS) Doctoral Consortium, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Muirhead, J. (2016). User-centred techniques for informative and accessible content [Doctoral consortium paper]. Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) Doctoral Consortium, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Commissioned and funded research
Muirhead, J. (2021). Preventing underage alcohol purchasing online using payment card details. Institute of Alcohol Studies. Read the report · Related article
Muirhead, J., & Grout, V. (2020). Effective age-gating for online alcohol sales. Alcohol Change UK. Read the report · Related article
Articles and practitioner reflections
My articles set out research findings and practitioner reflections on online education, assessment, leadership and quality in higher education, each tagged by topic.
Peer review and service
I have peer reviewed for information systems publications, and I mentor aspiring academic governance professionals. Get in touch to discuss review or mentoring.