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

Dr 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. Dr Murray has taught a range of subjects both on campus and online to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research interests include examining pre-service teacher wellbeing and readiness for the teaching profession, 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 research participants to examine issues of concern for them as they make transitions in life. She has 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. Dr Murray's latest research examines the wellbeing, motivation and readiness of school support staff who are retraining to become teachers.