Dr Elizabeth Murray is Associate Professor in the School of Education. She is Lead Researcher for Positive Living Skills Australia, Co-Lead of Charles Sturt University's Wellbeing and Mental Health Research Group, and Co-Lead of Charles Sturt University's Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group. Associate Professor Murray is also Academic Program Lead for two large projects: The Grow Your Own Teacher Training program, and the Collaborative Teacher's Aide Pathway program. 

Associate Professor Murray has taught on the Dubbo campus since 2008. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) and Doctor of Philosophy degrees through CSU, and taught in primary schools in Central West New South Wales. Associate Professor Murray teaches a range of subjects both on campus and via distance to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research interests include examining children's social and emotional adjustment to kindergarten, transition to and readiness for formal schooling, child stress and anxiety, the teacher-child relationship, parent-teacher relationships, and quality teaching and learning environments. Dr Murray is interested in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and in particular, working with children to examine issues of concern for them as they make the transition to formal schooling. She has recently undertaken analyses using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to examine academic and social trajectories for young children prior to school, and issues surrounding parent-teacher communication and parent involvement, and in other research, uses in-depth analyses of children's drawings to examine their relationship with teachers across the first year of school. Associate Professor Murray's latest research examines the wellbeing of teacher support staff who are retraining to become teachers.