Gillian Murphy

Gillian Murphy is a researcher in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, where she completed a PhD in 2016 and has remained as a faculty member. Murphy's research covers the psychology of misinformation, false memory formation, and deepfake technology, including work on how exposure to fake news shapes memory and belief, and how interventions such as inoculation and critical thinking training can reduce susceptibility to misinformation. Additional projects have examined conspiracy belief, the ethics of deception in psychological research, and the communicative dimensions of deepfakes in political and cultural contexts.