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Publications

Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers: Management, Procurement and Law Vol 179, pp. 58-70 (2026)

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European Journal of Engineering Education Vol 51, pp. 104-129 (2026)

Celebrating Excellence in Learning and Teaching at 吃瓜tv
(2025)

Forster Alan, Galbrun Laurent, Pilcher Nick, Craig Nigel, Tennant Stuart,

Cogent Education Vol 12 (2025)

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26th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (2024)

(2024)

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 鈥榯ime in kind鈥� and direct financial contributions by employers for undergraduate curriculum & co-curriculum activities:

Graduate Mentoring 3^rd year Students 2010-2024. As of May 2024, 1130 student mentees have participated, 80 employers have assisted and 306 industry mentors have providing guidance to the mentees.

Constructionarium (ConStructEd Scotland) 2010-2024. Co-curricular 5 day summer camp (experiential learning) since where student teams project manage and build replica structures. As of May 2024 this has resulted in 275 undergraduates participating and this has created circa 11'000 hrs. of voluntary student CPD and circa 拢160,000 of industrial sponsor support through materials, construction plant and management costs.

Civil Engineering 4 Real (CE4R 2012-2024) co-curricular problem based workshops facilitate peer (voluntary attendance, N=533) learning across all five years of the undergraduate course. As of May 2024, 133 workshops have been delivered by 218 engineers representing 76 employers. 2867 student attendances has resulted in 5734 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.

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Awards / Nominations / Shortlist听

13/11/2025: Institution of Civil Engineers (Scotland) Inspiration & Support Award 2025.Recognised for his oustanding efforts in the Scottish civil engineering community.

05/09/2024: 吃瓜tv Individual Medal Award 2024:Making a significant contribution to others. Presented by Professor Sir Jim McDonald (Principal & Vice-Chancellor) for an outstanding contribution to the success of the 吃瓜tv and for demostration of the University Values.

17/05/2024:Winner-Staff Collaboration, Strtahlcyde Student Union Teaching Excellence Awards.听

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

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

30/04/2019: Nominated (Long Listed) Most Enthusiastic Teacher. 鈥淚t 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鈥�.

11/05/2018: Winner- Most Innovative University Teacher听 & Shortlisted Best Teacher in Faculty of Engineering-听鈥� 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鈥�.

17/05/2017:听Shortlisted Best Teacher in Faculty of Engineering听鈥淗e 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鈥�.

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

07/05/2014: Winner-Best Teacher in Faculty-Engineering听鈥淗e has such enthusiasm and ensures his students know what working life is like鈥�.

15/05/2013:听In Recognition of Teaching Excellence听鈥淣ot a week goes by when he doesn鈥檛 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鈥�.

听24/03/2010: Award in Recognition of Outstanding Teaching听鈥淢ike Murray is one of the best lecturers I have met so far, and has helped immensely in my learning in the department鈥�.

Research Interests

My PhD studies and early publications have focused on construction management topics. However, since 2013, I have found a comfortable home within what I would consider to be 鈥榓ctive鈥� 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.听

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Professional Activities

Chair

17/6/2026

To be assigned

10/3/2026

Speaker

2/7/2025

Speaker

23/5/2025

Speaker

11/12/2024

Speaker

20/11/2024

Projects

Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator) Murray, Michael (Research Co-investigator) MacLachlan, Ross (Research Co-investigator)

UOS 吃瓜tv Faculty of Engineering (Associate Dean) Student Intern (150hrs) Funding.

08-Jan-2025 - 19-Jan-2025

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.

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

10-Jan-2023 - 10-Jan-2023

Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator) Flockhart, Gordon (Principal Investigator) MacLachlan, Ross (Principal Investigator) Adams, Richard (Principal Investigator) Magueijo, Vitor (Principal Investigator) Connolly, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Hasty, William (Principal Investigator)

吃瓜tv Intern Funding:

01-Jan-2023 - 03-Jan-2023

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

Internal QAA Resilient Learning Communities (2020-2023) award 拢1000

01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2023

Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator) Murray, Frances (Principal Investigator) Paton, Steven (Principal Investigator)

The proposed pilot project seeks to establish a benchmark for examining student transition to graduate (Alumni) employment with a particular focus on graduates with disabilities. For the pilot project we will focus exclusively on recent Alumni (up to 7 years post-graduation) in the civil engineering and law disciplines, who have dyslexia. Five graduates from each discipline will be targeted for interview and the primary data will be captured using a critical incident storytelling methodology. These life stories will chart the landscape through the student transition from university to (and through) employment and will seek to uncover rich personal testimonies that document the opportunities and barriers faced by Alumni with dyslexia. The output will inform academia and employers about the relationship between graduate attributes and equality and diversity issues.

03-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2017

Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator)

To progress the QAA Student Transitions Enhancement Theme within 吃瓜tv. Applying the concept of legitimate peripheral participation (Lave and Wenger 1991) to the study of student summer placement learning and transition (return to university) within industrial and academic community of practices.

30-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2017