Dr Michael Murray

Publications

Provocateur Pedagogies in Higher Education : Punks, Pirates and Guerillas!

Murray Michael

(2024)

An autoethnography of becoming an innovative engineering academic : punk, pirate and guerilla pedagogy

Murray Michael

SEFI Conference 2023, pp. 2545-2556 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.21427/FJHE-0551

Construction and engineering Higher Education : the role of pracademics in recoupling classical experiential educational norms

Forster Alan M, Pilcher Nick, Murray Mike, Tennant Stuart, Craig Nigel, Galbrun Laurent

Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia Pracademia (2023) (2023)

Opportunities for the development of professional skills for undergraduate civil and environmental engineers

Murray Mike, Pytharouli Stella, Douglas John

European Journal of Engineering Education Vol 47, pp. 793-813 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2022.2031897

"I read and read, and glowered; then read and read again" (Thomas Telford) : Reading for a degree in civil engineering 2009-2022

Murray Mike

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium for Engineering Education (2022) (2022)

Celebrating Innovation and Resilience at Strathclyde" Awards & Examples of Good Practice during Covid Pandemic (2020-21),

Murray Michael

(2022)

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Teaching

Teaching Philosophy

I seek to deliver a student learning experience that promotes intellectual curiosity. My epistemic beliefs reflect a dominant constructivist perspective and the pedagogy that I deploy supports student agency through innovative Assessment for Learning activities (i.e. Flipped Learning / Book Jigsaw / Rich Pictures/ Vlogging for reflection).

As a Senior Teaching Fellow I have directed my efforts to creating reciprocal knowledge exchange between students and employers. This has resulted in significant ‘time in kind’ and direct financial contributions by employers for undergraduate curriculum & co-curriculum activities:

Graduate Mentoring 3^rd year Students 2010-2023. As of May 2023, 1066 student mentees have participated, 80 employers have assisted and 265 industry mentors have providing guidance to the mentees.

Constructionarium (ConStructEd Scotland) 2010-2023. Co-curricular 5 day summer camp (experiential learning) since where student teams project manage and build replica structures. As of May 2023 this has resulted in 255 undergraduates participating and this has created circa 102,000 hrs. of voluntary student CPD and circa £150,000 of industrial sponsor support through materials, construction plant and management costs.

Civil Engineering 4 Real (CE4R 2012-2023) co-curricular problem based workshops facilitate peer (voluntary attendance, N=533) learning across all five years of the undergraduate course. As of May 2023, 124 workshops have been delivered by 201 engineers representing 72 employers. 2282 student attendances has resulted in 4564 hrs. of student CPD.

My pedagogy has been commended by the Quinqennial Review Panel (2015 & 2021) and recognized by the Joint Board of Moderators (JBM) Accreditation panels 2010, 2015, 2020; External Examiners Report 2020, and is explicitly referenced in the annual National Student Survey (NSS) free-text positive responses.

Teaching Awards

18/05/2023: Short Listed (Going the Extra Mile) Strathclyde Student Union Teaching Excellence Awards

08/06/2021: Winner- Faculty of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Awards.-Excellence in Supporting Students during the 2020-21 academic year.

30/04/2019: Nominated (Long Listed) Most Enthusiastic Teacher. “It was great to have you as my teacher Mike. You are definitely one of the most enthusiastic lecturers I have ever known or will ever know, probably”.

11/05/2018: Most Innovative University Teacher  & Shortlisted Best Teacher in Faculty of Engineering- “ The amount of different ways this man has found to engage students with the wider Civil Engineering community is too long to list and I hope he finally gets the recognition he deserves”.

17/05/2017: Shortlisted Best Teacher in Faculty of Engineering “He goes above and beyond his role as a lecturer. Mike encourages students to take part in further reading and broaden their education with site visits and workshops. His passion for the course and genuine interest in the industry really encourages students to have ambition whilst pursuing their career”.

14/05/2015: Shortlisted Best Overall University Teacher “I feel I owe an incredible amount to him. He has built relationships with companies, organises site visits and forwards job advertisement to us”…“He makes such an effort for his students, and I think he should be recognised for this”.

07/05/2014: Best Teacher in Faculty-Engineering “He has such enthusiasm and ensures his students know what working life is like”.

15/05/2013: In Recognition of Teaching Excellence “Not a week goes by when he doesn’t go beyond the call of duty as a lecturer to try to introduce something extra or new, not just to us students but to the department as a whole. He inspires us to set our goals high and engages with students as equals”.

 24/03/2010: Award in Recognition of Outstanding Teaching “Mike Murray is one of the best lecturers I have met so far, and has helped immensely in my learning in the department”.

Research Interests

My PhD studies and early publications have focused on construction management topics. However, since 2010, I have found a comfortable home within what I would consider to be ‘active’ pedagogical studies, grounded through my immersion in teaching and learning activities. My personal ontological (reality is subjective) and epistemological (knowledge creation is socially constructed) beliefs shape my approach to learning, teaching and research activities. Recent Publications:

Murray, M., Pytharouli, S & Douglas, J. (2022).  Opportunities for the Development of Professional Skills for Undergraduate Civil and Environmental Engineers, European Journal of Engineering Education DOI/MS ID: 10.1080/03043797.2022.2031897 / 210690459

Murray, M. (2022). An Industry-Student Mentoring Scheme 2010-2022, Engineering Professors Council Crucible Project, 16^th February, Session 1: Collaborating with industry for teaching and learning, Video3470518334, http://epc.ac.uk/recent-events/    & Toolkit available (Members Portal) @ http://epc.ac.uk/crucible-project-toolkit/

Pilcher, N., Galbrun, L., Craig, N., Murray, M., Forster, A., Tennant, S. (2021).'Role requirements in Academic Recruitment for Construction & Engineering’ European Journal of Engineering Education, 46(2):247-265.https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2020.1725451.

Professional Activities

Collaborating with Industry for teaching & Learning in Engineering Education

Speaker

4/9/2023

International Symposium of Engineering Education (ISEE) 2022

Chair

1/9/2022

Centre for Engineering Education, UCL, Engineering Round table session on the priorities for Engineering Education Research in the UK.

Speaker

28/6/2022

Crucible Project

Speaker

16/2/2022

External Examiner, MSc Construction Management programme,University College of Estate Management

Examiner

20/10/2020

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC) joint conference on New Approaches to Engineering Higher Education,

Speaker

30/11/2019

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Projects

Pathways for Equal access to the Energy Research Sector

Beattie, Stewart (Principal Investigator) Switzer, Christine (Principal Investigator) Kremer, Yannick (Principal Investigator) Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator)

Ensuring equality and diversity in higher education begins with assembling a diverse learning community. Graduate Apprenticeships were set up to create new pathways into engineering for people from different backgrounds. While the Graduate Apprenticeship in Civil Engineering (GA-CE) diversified the number of stakeholders involved in recruitment and our GA employers are also committed to providing learning opportunities for a wide spectrum of society, there is an apparent lack of diversity in our GA-CE programme, which reflects a wider sector issue in GA programmes. This project seeks to identify the key factors affecting recruitment to the GA and develop recommendations to increase diversity in recruitment of future GA cohorts. The student intern, will conduct interviews and focus groups with employers to characterise the recruitment experience from all angles and inform development of initiatives to improve diversity in future GA applicant pools.

£11,016.61 (100% fEC) IGNITE Network (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)+ FA2 project,

10-Jan-2023 - 10-Jan-2023

ENTICE - ENhancing Transitions In Civil Engineering (HEA Student Transitions)

Ferguson, Neil (Principal Investigator) Bertram, Doug (Co-investigator) Kenny, Michael (Co-investigator) Murray, Michael (Co-investigator) Switzer, Christine (Co-investigator)

11-Jan-2015 - 30-Jan-2015

Scottish Enterprise & Applecross Developments

Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator) Langford, David (Research Co-investigator)

A Lean Design and Construction Methodology for Applecross Developments

10-Jan-2005 - 19-Jan-2007

Tempus Project: CD_JEP-30047-2002 (SY) Developing an MSc Curriculum in Construction Management for the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Aleppo, Syria

Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator) Langford, David (Principal Investigator)

15-Jan-2004 - 15-Jan-2006

ESRC Transdiciplinary Seminars Award: People & Culture

Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator)

Establishing a network of academics and construction industry practitioners with an interest in work-life balance issues. Seven workshops held under the headings of Work & Quality of Life; Flexible Working Practices; Child Care Issues; Discrimination & Promoting Inclusive Employment Practices; Risk, Safety & the Working Environment and The Impact of Information Technology.

19-Jan-2004 - 15-Jan-2005

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