About

Since 2007, Murray has been Bradley Professor at the University of Glasgow and successively Dean, Vice-Principal and Pro Vice Principal at the University. Outside the University, he serves on the National Trust for Scotland Board (2019-27) and Investment Committee, as well as acting as Co-chair of the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance, chair of the Governance Board of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs, and member of the Board of the European Alliance for Social Science and Humanities.

He is on the Advisory Board of NISE, the Europe-wide research group bringing together over 40 research centres working on national identities, and has held visiting appointments at universities worldwide including New York University; Notre Dame, Charles University, Prague; Trinity College, Dublin; Auburn; the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales; and Yale.

Murray’s academic work in the words of a recent UK Research and Innovation report is ‘world-leading and field-defining’, reflected in some 30 books: most recently, Scotland: the Global History.

Murray is cited in dozens of Wikipedia articles in many languages and has been credited as the originator of the term ‘Cymrophone’. Nevertheless, he has been described as ‘gracious, funny and an easy conversationalist’. In fantasy politics, was among the nominees for the first president of an independent Scotland (The National, 5-6 June 2022).