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Emily Murray

Qualifications:
>	Master of Arts (Creative Writing) 2004, University of Melbourne • Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
>	Bachelor of Arts (Hons), 2001, University of Melbourne • Dwight Prize for Honours Thesis; Edward Stevens Exhibition for English (top 2nd yr student)
>	• Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), 2000, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Anne Butler Prize for Design Achievement (top 5th yr student)
>	Bachelor of Environmental Design, 1994, University of Western Australia • Midland Brick prize for academic achievement (top 3rd yr student); Margaret Pitt-Morrison prize for history and theory (3rd yr student); UWA prize for English (top 1st yr student)
Specialising in:
>	Content writing
>	Online research
>	Interface design

Emily Murray

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Professional Experience

Tutor, Department of English, The University of Melbourne

Tuition of undergraduates undertaking the second/third year Cultural Studies unit “Media Histories”, a subject exploring the connections between media technologies and shifting experiences of culture in the twentieth century.

Interface Designer – Acumentum Multimedia, Melbourne

Comprehensive experience with managing content (text, audio and visual) within web sites and databases containing a challenging depth and breadth of information
Expertise in the collection, analysis and distillation of complex, often contradictory requirements into a set of comprehensible and prioritised issues
Extensive experience in developing electronic presentations, documents and reports with strong visual impact and clarity

Content Editor – Looksmart International, Melbourne

Appraisal of an average of 65 web sites per day, or approximately 15 000 sites a year, resulting in an expert awareness of the contemporary web environment
Research, presentation and management of an average of 25 detailed, high-quality responses to online enquiries per day during the LookSmart Live web community project.
Advanced Internet and database searching skills and an aptitude for identifying and concisely communicating key concepts from lengthy texts
Extensive experience with editorial policy and requirements of corporate style guides
Proficiency in creating written communication with appropriate tone, pace and content

Publications - Short Stories

“Wrong Way, Back Out”, Strange Cities : new Melbourne writers. Melbourne, Vic. : CrookedStylesPress, Dept. of English, University of Melbourne

“Return to Your Car”, Strange Cities : new Melbourne writers. Melbourne, Vic. : CrookedStylesPress, Dept. of English, University of Melbourne

“Tongue : an anthology of new writing. Andrea Moss, Simone McNamara and Briony Grogan (eds., Brighton, Vic. : Quixotic Press, 2000.

“Gassing the Hamsters”, Picador New Writing 4. Beth Yahp & Nicholas Jose (eds.), Chippendale, N.S.W. : Picador, 1997.

“Milk Teeth”, University of Canberra National Short Story Competition 1996 and publication in Redoubt literary journal 1997.

Trove: A Collection of Creative Writing from the University of Western Australia, Edition 1 (1994) - Initiation, editorial management and production of a short story collection featuring student work from the University of Western Australia.