She is an adjunct professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø as part of her collaboration with the C-LaBL research centre hosted there.
[8] Later, in 2016, she co-edited Early Childhood Education in English for Speakers of Other Languages with Maria Evangelou, analyzing issues and case studies on English language teaching in Early Childhood Education for non-English speakers, including parental roles, teacher qualifications, best practices, and first-language use.
In a report for the Education Endowment Fund, she found that effective foreign language teaching relies more on program characteristics and teacher skills rather than specific methods, highlighting the need for engaging input, noting the mixed findings on bilingualism's cognitive benefits, and variable effectiveness of non-native language instruction.
[11] Her work further assessed how child, wordform, and meaning factors influence children's understanding of homonyms, discovering that word frequency, dominance, and imageability significantly impact knowledge for both native and non-native English speakers.
[13] Building upon this, she showed that both groups efficiently re-analyze inconsistent information when they have larger vocabularies, indicating successful comprehension monitoring.
Collaborating with Rebecca Eynon and Sandra Mathers,[19][20] she analyzed how features of mobile apps—such as narration and augmented reality—affect children's language learning, highlighting mixed results and a need for further research.
[22] As Principal Investigator of the Learning for Families through Technology LiFT project team at the University of Oxford, Murphy has received funding from Ferrero as part of their collaboration with Gameloft.