She was employed as a town planner, the first woman in the UK in this role, and later taught planning.
[1] After graduating she was appointed as a town planning assistant to the Tynemouth and North Shields Corporation in 1931.
[1] Dunphy initially lived in Llandudno and attended John Bright School.
The Norah Dunphy Gold Award for Architecture is made by the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
[3] Twenty-eight of her architectural drawings, made while she was a student and when employed in Tynemouth and North Shields, are held in the archives of University of Liverpool.