Timothy Murphy

In tandem with his on-going research into service-learning oriented pedagogies, he has also continued to develop his research interests into issues relating to policy and practice in diverse educational contexts, both nationally and internationally.  In 2011, for example, he was nominated as a funded participant to the Open Society Institutes (OSI)  Privatisation in Education Research Initiative. And, in 2010, he had been invited to participate in the Emerging leaders for a new policy era: Educational leadership in transitioning societies, which was held at Lake Bazaleti in Georgia.    Selected research outputs from the various activities outlined above were nominated for Leeds Metropolitan Universitys 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). While there, he continued to develop his research capacities by completing a Masters in Research Methods (MRes) in Education and Society at the Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University.  More recently, he has begun to explore the significance of teacher wellbeing as it relates to teaching and learning.  He is a participant together with colleagues from the School of Education at the University of Limerick, Ireland; HiOA Oslo, Norway; UCC Copenhagen, Denmark;  Mary I Limerick, Ireland;  and UWC South Africa on an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for School Education Project entitled andquot;Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Managing language and social diversity in classroomsandquot;