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Mr Graham McPheat

Principal Teaching Fellow

Social Work

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Personal statement

I am the Director of Global Engagement in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy where I have the role of Director of Learning and Teaching.  I am Course Leader on the MSc in Child and Youth Care Studies by Distance Learning, a part time programme aimed at child and youth care practitioners around the world and accredited by the Child and Youth Care Accreditation Board of Canada. I also teach on the MSc in Advanced Residential Child Care and the BA (Hons) Social Work.  My teaching and research interests centre around online and distance learning, child and youth care, residential child care, social work, and leadership and management.

I have a particular interest in online and distance learning. In addition to my role with the MSc in Child and Youth Care Studies by Distance Learning I was previously the Lead Educator on the ³Ô¹Ïtv Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Caring for Vulnerable Children. This award winning 6 week course ran for the first time in 2015 and recorded more than 100,000 registered participants. In 2022 it was converted into an elective online module for Social Work students .  

I have a lead role in the annual Summer School involving our School of Social Work and Social Policy and the at . Eastablished in 2017, this involves bi-annual visits to each institution with groups of post and undergraduate Social Work and Social Policy students. 

I have been with the ³Ô¹Ïtv since 2003, prior to this I worked as a practitioner and manager in residential child care services in Edinburgh. 

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
16/9/2018
Recipient
2/12/2016
Recipient
10/10/2016

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Publications

(2024)
, Ventrella Mary
(2020)
, Ramsay Howard
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)
(2020)

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Professional Activities

Member
10/11/2019
Visiting lecturer
8/6/2019
Speaker
1/5/2018
Visiting lecturer
10/7/2017
Speaker
26/6/2017
Speaker
22/8/2016

Projects

McPheat, Graham (Principal Investigator) MacIntyre, Gillian (Co-investigator) Paul, Sally (Co-investigator) Stewart, Ailsa (Co-investigator)
03-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
Gale, Christine (Principal Investigator) Davidson, Jennifer (Co-investigator) Hume-Anthony, Sarah (Co-investigator) Main, Gordon (Co-investigator) McPheat, Graham (Co-investigator) Milligan, Ian (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2021
McPheat, Graham (Principal Investigator)
A free to access six week course hosted on the FutureLearn website focussing on caring for vulnerable children.
23-Jan-2015
Steckley, Laura (Principal Investigator) McPheat, Graham (Co-investigator)
21-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2014
Steckley, Laura (Principal Investigator) McPheat, Graham (Co-investigator)
21-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2014
McPheat, Graham (Principal Investigator)
A project funded by the University Education Excellence Fund (£5700) to pilot the use of Video Enhanced Reflective Practice in online teaching situations.
04-Jan-2013 - 30-Jan-2014

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Contact

Mr Graham McPheat
Principal Teaching Fellow
Social Work

Email: graham.mcpheat@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8732