Dr Anne Murphy

Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU)

Directorate of Research & Enterprise

Dublin Institute of Technology

143-149 Rathmines Road

Dublin 6

Ireland

+ 353 879073348 mobile phone

+353 598631981landline

Summary of interests and experience

Dr Anne Murphy is attached to the Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU) in the Dublin Institute of Technology where she is involved in PhD supervision, international research and consultancy, guest lecturing and publishing. Previously she was based in the Directorate of Academic Affairs involved in academic development, postgraduate teaching, national and international research projects, and in policy, quality assurance and practice aspects of recognition of non-formal and informal learning. Her academic record includes a decade in the National University of Ireland Maynooth and an early career as a second level teacher. She did consultancy work for Irish Aid in Africa, for the Council of Europe, for qualifications authorities in Romania, Malta and Malaysia, for the Ministry for Higher Education in Saudi Arabia and for TEMPUS in Russia. In recent years she has been a visiting lecturer in Kazakhstan, contributing to several conferences there including the First Nazarbayev Reading in Astana and the first G-Global webinar from Pavlodaron the role of universities in sustaining nuclear-free development paradigms. She is founder-editor of the DIT online journal Level3, a scientific committee member for the European Journal of Qualifications, and a long-standing book reviewer for Emerald Publishing. She is also a scientific committee member for The University in Society (UniSo) network annual international conference and publication.

Current PhD supervision topics include: the knowledge society; deontologies of inclusive education; music education; staff development strategies for VLEs

Current academic development activities include supporting teaching staff in a kindergarten centre for children with autism in Kazakhstan.

Selection of recent work

Books, guides and reports

2000 Bradley, J., Healy, D. and Murphy, A. (Eds) (2000) Themes in Kilkenny’s History: Aselection from

the Maynooth- Kilkenny Radio Lecture Series, Red Lion Press: Kilkenny

2004 Murphy, A., Ogard, M., Greer, P. and Alvarez, J.M.R. (2004) Guide to Participatory Democracy in

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro,Strasbourg: Council of Europe

2006Murphy, A,. Ogard, M., Greer, P. and Alvarez, J. M. R. (2006) Guide to Participatory Democracy in

Romania and Bulgaria, Strasbourg: Council of Europe

2008 Murphy, A. (2008) APEL Matters in Higher Education, Red Lion Press, Kilkenny, Ireland

2010Murphy, A. (2010) Academic Writing and Publishing Matters for the Scholar-Researcher,

Directorate of Academic Affairs, Dublin Institute of Technology

2010 Murphy, A. (2010) RPL Matters in the DIT: policy and practice guide for staff, Directorate of

Academic Affairs, Dublin Institute of Technology

2010 Murphy, A. and Duff, T. (2010) Comparative assessment of terminology and qualifications

framework design: based on research among partners in Romania, France, Germany, Ireland,

Malta, Slovenia and Spain, for the HEQ_Bridges Project: Building bridges between the EQF-LLL

and the QF-EHEA

2010 Murphy, A, Nicolas, A., and Zaharia, S. E. (2011) Case studies in sectoral qualifications:

qualifications provision, job descriptions, learning outcomes and framework placement, for the

HEQ_Bridges Project: Building bridges between the EQF-LLL and the QF-EHEA

2012 Murphy, A. and O’Shaughnessy, J. (2012) RPL Guide for DIT Staff, Part 2, Directorate of

Academic Affairs and Directorate of Student Services, Dublin Institute of Technology

2012 On-line training modules for qualifications evaluators in Romania, through the DECIS

Project in partnership with the Qualifications Authority of Romania (ACPART/ANC)

2014‘Towards a Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) position paper on e-learning for lecturers in the higher education sector’, January 2014

2014‘Country Report for Ireland: The role of quality assurance in building bridges between VET and HE’, Cedefop Research Project, June 2014

Chapters in books

1996 Murphy, A. (1996) ‘Future-orientation and comparability in educational research: methodological

challenges of the Euro-Delphi Survey’ in Radical Learning for Liberation, NUI Maynooth Occasional

Publications, MACE

2006 Binjens, M. and Vanbene, M. (Eds) (2006) State of the Art: Work Based Induction Training in Europe,

chapter on induction and support for worker-learners in Ireland

2007 Murphy, A. (2007) ‘In mindful search of a good theory of learning at work’, in Radical

Learning for Liberation 2, NUI Maynooth occasional publications, MACE

2012 Darandari, E. and Murphy, A. (2012) ‘ Assessment of student learning’ in Smith, L. and Abouammoh,

A. (Eds) (2012) Higher Education in Saudi Arabia: achievements, challenges andopportunities,

Springer

2014 Murphy, A., Doherty, O. and Collins, K. ‘Changing RPL and HRD discourses: practitioner

perspectives;, in Koivisto, M., Finn, T. and Billett, S. (due 2014) Promoting, assessing, recognising

and certifying Lifelong Learning: international perspectives and practices, Springer

2014 Murphy, A. ‘Access through the looking glass:a think-piece about trends in lifelong learning in

Ireland’, in special forthcoming publication Exploring Difference and Diversity in Irish Higher

Education,School of Education, TrinityCollege, Dublin

2014Murphy, A. ‘Student experience and engagement in higher education in Ireland’ in Loxley, A., Seery, A. and Walsh, J. (Eds) Higher Education in Ireland: practices, policies and possibilities,TrinityCollege, Dublin, Palgrave Macmillan: UK

Conferences and seminars

2007Murphy, A. and Jaszewski, A. (2007) ‘Principles for designing induction and supports for worker learners: experiences from the Learn@Work Project’, Dissemination Conference, Glasgow-CaledonianUniversity, Glasgow, September 2007

2007 Murphy, A. ‘The interface between academic and working knowledge: implications for

curricula and academic practice ’, HETAC Conference on work-based learning, Griffith

College, Dublin, 2008

2008Murphy. A. ‘Challenges for higher education in designing a strategy for recognition of

prior learning (RPL) and using work-based learning programme design (WBL) within

enterprises’ expectations fromthe National Framework of Qualifications’, UniSo Summer

School, Iasi, Romania, July 2008

2007Murphy, A. ‘Recognition of prior learning (RPL): developments in Ireland and possibilities for UNEVOC networking’, lead presentation for UNEVOC-UNESCO Conference, Dublin 19 August 2008

2008Murphy, A. ‘DIT strategy for implementation of the national principles and operational guidelines for RPL in further and higher education’, Bologna seminar, Amsterdam, 11 December 2008

2009Burns, R., Murphy, A. and O’Donnell, H. ‘ Supporting graduate development through work-basedlearning’, UniVest Conference, Verona, July 2008

2009 Murphy, A. ‘The work-based learning programme as a site of ambivalence for academic

staff’,Researching work and Learning Conference, Roskilde University, Denmark, June

2009

2009 Murphy, A. ‘University-industry partnerships: love affairs or marriages of convenience?’

University in Society- UNiSo Summer School, Amiens,France, July 2009

2009 Rokkjaer, O., Norgaard, B., Murphy, A., Skytte, L., Hannermose, N., Ausina, I., Garcia, I.,

Montesines, P. ‘Dissipation of the FWBL methodology to innovation in continuing

professional development’, SEFI Conference, Denmark, 2009

2010 Murphy, A. ‘Negotiating partnerships with small and medium-sized enterprises: options for

the university’, University in Society – UniSo Summer School, Timisoara, Romania, July

2010

2011 Murphy, A. ‘Why minor awards in the Bologna cycles are important for the labour market’,

University in Society UniSo Summer School, Le Cnam, Paris, July 2011

2011 Murphy, A., ‘Tools of assessment of prior learning’, Accreditation of Experiential Learning

Conference, Kuala Lumpur, key-note presentation for Malaysian Qualifications Agency,

March 2011

2011 Murphy, A. ‘Qualifications Frameworks and Lifelong Learning’, Accreditation of Experiential

Learning Conference, Kuala Lumpur, key-note presentation for Malaysian Qualifications

Agency, March 2011

2011 Murphy, A. ‘Experiences of Sectoral Framework Development in Ireland’: contribution to

expert workshop EQF from theory to practice – methodological reflections on referencing,

organised by University of Bremen and DEKRAAcademy, Sliema, Malta, 18 February 2011

2011 Murphy, A. and Duff, T. ‘NQF development status in Ireland and current challenges for

implementation of EHEA reforms’, conference related to the self-certification of

compatibility of the Romanian NQFHE and the EHEA framework, Sinaia, Romania, 14

and 15 April 2011

2012 Murphy, A. 1. ‘Student-centred higher education: the logic of the Bologna process’, KIMEP

Conference, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2 and 3 March 2012

2. ‘Quality enhancement in higher education: a focus on the Bologna process’

3. ‘How to become a student-centred university’

4. ‘Student-centred higher education: the logic of the Bologna process’.

2012Murphy, A. ‘Understanding qualifications at a European level: a comparative analysis with the Irish experience’. Seminar for the Qualifications Council of Malta, Sliema, 22 June 2012.

2011Murphy, A.Contribution to international expert panel at final joint conference of two projects: NQF

by EQF Projectand Matching Frames project, and ‘Qualifications frameworks: a contribution to the

development of the European labour market’, University of Bremen, DEKRA and Bavarian

Broadcasting Company, Munich, Germany, 25 and 26 June 2012

2012 Murphy, A. (2012) ‘Labour Market Activation Initiatives from the Perspective of Higher Education:

a case study from Ireland’. Uniso (University in Society) SummerUniversity, Sigisiora, Romania,

July 2012

2012Murphy, A. ‘The Bologna process and recognition of prior formal and non-formal learning: where to

start at the local level’, Seminar for Tempus DEFRUS Project, Moscow, October 2012

2013Murphy, A. ‘The Role of N. Nazarbayev in development of higher education in Kazakhstan from the pointof view of Irish scientists’, First Nazarbayev Readings, Astana, Kazackstan, November 2012

2012 Murphy, A. ‘Science and Technology in the Irish Economy’, seminar presentation, PavlodarStateUniversityNovember 2012

2012 Murphy, A. ‘Quality Assurance and RPL at national and international levels: an example from

Ireland’, EURASHE and European RPL Network seminar’ RPL and flexible ties with Higher

Education, Prague, 13 and 14 December 2012

2013 Murphy, A. ‘Mobility of researchers and the rise of scientific English’,PavlodarState

University Conference Education and Science without Borders,Kazakhstan, 14 May 2013.

2013Murphy, A. ‘RPL in sectoral qualifications frameworks within NQFs, Bologna Cycle and the EQF: a focus on making frameworks ‘work’ hard’, DEFRUS Tempus meeting, St Petersburg, June 2013

2013 Murphy, A.. ‘The university as a workplace for lecturer competence recognition and

qualifications enhancement through RPL and learning contracts’, University in Society

(UniSo) Summer Conference, Nice, France, July 2013

2013 Murphy, A. (2013) ‘University-industry partnerships; learning to live in sectoral harmony?’

First International Conference: 3E: Energy, Environment and Efficiency: interdisciplinary

research in the Danube and Black Sea areas,University of Galati, Romania, 19-21

September 2013

2013Murphy, A. ‘RPL in Ireland: an overview’, for higher education delegation from Norway, September 2013, Dublin

2013 Murphy, A. ‘Changing university learning in an era of global knowledge’. XI Toraighyr

Readings, Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan11 October 2013,

2013 Murphy, A. ‘Priorities for universities in a global context’ contribution to webinar and

broadcast organised for a G-Global Round Table, House of Cultures, Pavlodar,

Kazakhstan, October 2013

2014Murphy, A. ‘Sector Skills Networks and Qualifications Recognition’, TEMPUS DEFRUS meeting, Moscow, 13-14 March 2014

2014 Murphy, A.‘Supporting VET and HR professionals using European tools in their daily praxis:

recent developments in Ireland’, European Conference – Support structures for the practical application and implementation of the EQF and ECVET in Europe, Berlin, September 2014

2014 Murphy, A.‘Using minor awards and prior learning in professional and work-related education and

training’, School of Chemistry and Pharmacology, Dublin Institute of Technology, for delegation

from highereducation in Puerto Rico, 17 September 2014, Dublin.

2014Murphy, A. ‘RPL as ‘a good solution’ to sudden, high unemployment: the case of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland’, CAPLA (Canadian Association for prior Learning Assessment) Conference Ottawa, 2-4 November 2014

Journal articles

1996 Murphy, A. (1996) ‘Comparability and Future-Research in Adult Education: Methodological

Challenges in the Euro-Delphi Survey’, in, Connolly, B., Fleming, T., McCormack, D. and

Ryan, A. (Eds), Radical Learning for Liberation, MACE Occasional Series Number 1,

Maynooth, 1996

1996 Murphy, A. (1996) ‘Curvilinear Learning and CapacityBuilding for Rural Development’ in The Adult

Learner, AONTAS and Adult Education Organisers Association, Dublin

2003 Murphy, A., (2003) ‘Is the university sector in Ireland ready to publicly assess and accredit personal

learning from outside the academy?’ European Journal of Education, Volume 3, Number 4

2003 Murphy, A.(2003) ‘‘Situated learning’, ‘distributed cognition’: Do academics really need to

know?’ DIT on-line journal Level3

2005 Murphy, A. (2005) ‘Where does AP(E)L fit in higher education?’ DIT on-line journal Level 3

2007 Murphy, A. (2007) ‘Scaling up AP(E)L for sectoral professionalisation: experience from the social

care sector in Dublin’ in The Adult Learner, 2007, AONTAS

2008 Murphy, A. ‘The interface between academic and working knowledge: implications for

curriculum design and pedagogic practice’, Dublin Institute of Technology online journal,

Level3, 2008

2010Murphy, A. O’Rourke, K. and Rooney, P. ‘The Learn@Work Project 2005-2007: What did it

do and what happened with it since?’ Australian Journal of E-learning at Work, Inaugural

Issue 2009 and reproduced in Level3, 9th Issue, 2009

2011Murphy, A. ‘Policy development and implementation procedures for recognition of prior

learning:a case study of practices in higher education’, Level3, Issue 10, June 2010 Level3

online journal

2014Murphy, A., Duff, T. and Collins, K. ‘Comparative analysis of terminology and qualifications

frameworks design’, European Journal of Qualifications, Issue 3, July 2011

2012Murphy, A. ‘Policy development and implementation procedures for recognition of prior learning: a case study of practices in higher education’, European Journal of Qualifications, Issue 2, May2011

2013Murphy, A. ‘Two decades of RPL in Ireland: practitioner perspectives’, Level3 June 2013

2014Murphy, A. ‘Quality assurance as a bridge between VET and HE in Ireland’, Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan, October 2014

2014 Murphy, A. ‘Paradigms of the knowledge economy: implications for higher education’, Journal of

Psychologyand Pedagogics, Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan forthcoming

Teaching specialities

  1. Research Design
  2. Higher Education policy and pedagogics
  3. Psychology of learning
  4. RPL (recognition of prior learning)
  5. WBL (work-based learning)
  6. Writing for publication.

Research and partnership projects

QA in VET and HE: international comparative study for Cedefop 2014

DEFRUS TEMPUS 2012-2015

DECIS: EU & Romania Qualifications Authority partnership project 2011-2013

HEQ-Bridges – EU Lifelong Learning research project 2009-2012

E3M – University Third Mission –EU Lifelong Learning research project 2009-2012

Education in Employment – Irish Government Strategic Innovation Fund project

Facilicode –EU Leonardo de Vinci research project 2007-2009

Learn@Work – EU Minerva research project 2005-2007

Valex (Valuing Learning from experience) – EU Socrates Grundtvig research project 2003-2005

SCOTENS – North-South teacher training project with University of Ulster.