Paul Murray

Mr Paul Murray

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), School of Architecture, Design and Environment (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 115, Reynolds, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586139
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 586139
Email: P.Murray@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Author of the inter-active book, THE SUSTAINABLE SELF (published by Earthscan in 2011) Information on the book and the online resources that support it can be found at:

www.earthscan.co.uk/self

Paul lectures on two MScs in Sustainable Construction (Project Management and Cost Management) and the University's undergraduate Environmental Building Degrees (BScs in Building Surveying and the Environment, Construction Management and the Environment and Environmental Construction Surveying) Paul provides consultancy and values-based training services across the UK to educational institutions and other public and private sector establishments who wish to focus on sustainability education and personal/ organisational engagement with sustainability. As the former Head of Building Programmes, Paul helped conceive the UK's first overtly environment-themed building undergraduate degrees in the UK in the mid 1990s. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2004 by the Higher Education Academy for his contribution to teaching excellence and won a national GREEN GOWN award for the university in 2007 for the environmental content of the construction degree programmes at Plymouth. Between 2000 and 2005 Paul was the Director of the SLICE project (Student-centred Learning in Construction Education), which transferred excellence in flexible learning to over 40 other institutions and was described by the Higher Educartion Academy as, "One of the best (projects)" in the FDTL4 funding round. Paul currently was the Environmental Building subject leaderin 2010/2011 and is an Associate Professor in sustainable construction education and sustainability, providing specific input on the development of teaching and learning innovations for students and lecturing colleagues.

In 2005 Paul became a founding Fellow of the Centre for Sustainable Futures, a government-funded £4.5 million centre of excellence for teaching and learning. The focus of the centre is to make the University of Plymouth an international role model for education for sustainable development. Paul's role will be to enhance and extend the excellent teaching practices undertaken by him and his colleagues within the Environmental Building group.

Paul's most recent work has focused on engaging individuals at a personal level with sustainability. He has pioneered new values-based sustainability training techniques that have been undertaken by over 600 individuals, including students, academics, government officers and businesses. This work has been translated into Paul's book The Sustainable Self.

Paul's sustainable training events are a core element of the university's built environment degrees, following pilots in 2007, which resulted in unaminous endorsement by all participating students. Since then, the training has been undertaken by nearly 700 academics, industry professionals and government officers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students. The training is now in demand for staff development internally at Plymouth and at other institutions.

Qualifications & background

Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is a 2004 National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Paul spent 13 years in professional practice as a building surveyor in the UK and overseas. He arrived at the university in 1992 with a brief to develop a new suite of construction and surveying degrees, which were first designed and validated in 1995. He leads the university's activities with the accrediting body - the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Professional membership
Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Fellow of the Centre for Sustainable Futures 2005-2010

Teaching interests

Paul teaches in three areas:

Core building Surveying - survey methods, building pathology, defect diagnosis, professional services

Sustainability - values, beliefs and behaviour, personalising sustainability, sustainability knowledge and skills for professional practice

Sustainable construction - sustainability issues, environmental impact assessment of buildings, contaminated land, specifying and managing safe and sustainable buildings

Research interests

Paul's research interests are both technical and academic.

Paul's current research is the evaluation of values-centred sustainbility training pedagogies across three disciplines; Design, Enginering and Finance/accountancy. The research involves the collation of pre and post training data on around 140 undergraduate participants to exp-lore potential shifts in values orientations and worldviews arising as a reslt of the training intervention. The project is expected to be completed by Autumn 2011.

On the technical front he has contributed to environmental related research on energy afficiency and radon gas, and has published on the health and safety of timber preservatives.

Academically, Paul has been highly active in developing high quality teaching and learning resources for use by academics both at Plymouth and nationally. Between 2001 and 2005 Paul led the pioneering "Student-centred Learning in Construction Education" project, with total funding of £325K. This project aimed to enhance the quality of student learning on building and civil engineering programmes nationally by building on Plymouth's experiences in developing excellent teaching and learning activities for students. Through the project Paul and his team developed a wide range of flexible learning materials which lecturers are now utlising on a national basis which have been extremely well received by students and lecturers alike.

Since 2005, Paul has focused his energy on developing new techniques for engaging individuals at a personal level with sustainability. He has published this work widely through refereed journal and conference papers, providing international conference workshops and delivering bespoke training to organisations, academics and students across the UK.

Paul has over 20 publications.

UoP Research group membership

Environmental Building
Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory (PedRIO)

Grants & contracts

2000 £250 000 for disseminating teaching excellence - Student-centred Learning in Construction Education (SLICE) (from Higher Education Funding Council for England)

2000 £75000 Additional funding for SLICE (University of Plymouth)

2003 £25000 Continuation funding for SLICE (with Steven Donohoe) (from Higher Education Funding Council for England)

2005 £50000 National Teaching Fellowship Award (from Higher Education Academy)

2011 £18150: Values based Education for Sustainability pedagogies: crossing boundaries, from the Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory (PEDRIO)

Publications

Books

Murray P. (2011) The Sustainable Self. A personal approach to sustainability education; Earthscan; London

Jones P.; Selby D.; Sterling S. (eds) (2010) Sustainable Education Perspectives and Practices Across Higher Education; Earthscan, London (Engineering chapter contribution)

Murray P., Donohoe S., Turpin-Brooks S. (2002) Handbook of Student-centred Learning in Construction Education; SLICE Project, University of Plymouth

Refereed International Journal papers

Martin S., Murray P. (2011) The Role of Wicked Problems, Values in Personal and Organisational Change, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Issue 5, pp163-169

De Wilde P.; Murray P. (2009) The Use of an e-Support System to Support Student Guidance in an Eco House Design Project; CEBE Transactions, Vol 6, Issue 1, pp1709-1721

Murray P.; Murray S. (2007) Promoting Values in Careers-based Programmes – A Case Study Analysis, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol 8, Issue 5, pp285-300

Murray P., Cotgrave A. (2007) Sustainability Literacy: The Future Paradigm for Construction Education, Structural Survey Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp7-23 *2008 Highly Commended Literati Club Award winner

Murray P., Goodhew S., Turpin-Brooks S. (2007) Environmental Sustainability: Sustainable Construction Education – a UK Case Study, International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Vol 2, Issue 5, pp9-22

Murray P., Brown N., Murray S. (2007) Deconstructing Sustainability Literacy – the Role of Values' International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Vol 2. Issue 7, pp83-92

Murray P., Goodhew S., Donohoe S. (2004) Flexible Learning in Construction – a Building Pathology case study; Structural Survey Vol 22, No 5, pp242-250 *Awarded 2005 Literati Club Award for Excellence by Emerald Publishers

Donohoe S., Turpin Brooks S., Murray P. (2001) Promoting a Framework for Student Centred Learning in Construction Education, British Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 3 No.1, pp11-16

International refereed conference papers

Murray P.; de Wilde P.; Goodhew S.; Turpin-Brooks S.; Holgate P.; Donohoe S.; Riley M. (2008) Developments in the Curriculum of Environmental Building at the University of Plymouth; Proceedings of the CIB Building and Research Conference February 2008, Kandalama, Sri Lanka

De Wilde P.; Murray P.; (2008) The Use of an e-Support System to Support Student Guidance in an Eco House Design Project; Proceedings of the CIB Building and Research Conference February 2008, Kandalama, Sri Lanka

Murray P. (2007) Towards a Definition of Sustainability Literacy for Built Environment Professionals; Proceedings of the Sustainability in Practice conference; Kingston, pp191-200

McCurry N., Murray P. (2006) Sustainable Construction Education. An International Collaboration; Paper presented at the World Conference on Accelerating Excellence in the Built Environment, Birmingham.

Donohoe S., Murray P. (2004) Education Innovation- Development of Student Centred Learning Toolkits, Proceedings of The Society of Teaching and Learning International Conference, London.

Murray P., Parker M., Dowdle D. (2003) The Rationale for Student-centred Learning in Building Education Proceedings of CIB W89 International conference on Building Education and Research, Salford

Murray P, Parker M. (2003) Student-centred Learning in Building Education - Embedding a Flexible Approach, Proceedings of CIB W89 International conference on Building Education and Research, Salford.; pp582-598

Dowdle D., Murray P., Parker M. (2003) Student-centred Learning - a keystone of Construction Education. Proceedings of CIB W89 International conference on Building Education and Research., pp542-555

Donohoe S., Turpin –Brooks S., Parker M., Murray P. (2002) Promoting Deep and Practical Student Centred Learning in Engineering Analysis, International Conference in Engineering Education, Manchester.

Un-refereed pedagogic publications and papers

Murray P (2009) Personal Education for Sustainable Development. A way forward for sustainable construction? Proceedings of the ARCOM conference, Plymouth ; November 2009, pp35-47

Murray P. (2005) Flexible Learning in Building Education: a compilation, Higher Education Academy Centre for Built Environment Education, Cardiff

Murray P. (2003) Building Pathology Lecturers’ Flexible Learning Toolkit, SLICE Project, University of Plymouth

Other relevant outputs

Murray P. (2007) Sustainability Literacy and Construction Education; HEA CEBE News Update, issue 17, pp27-30

Murray P. (2007) Education for Sustainable Development: reasons to be cheerful/sustainability in the curriculum; HEA CEBE News Update, issue 16, pp36-37

Murray P (2006) Education for Sustainable Development; HEA CEBE News Update, issue 15, pp27-28

Murray P. (2005) Promoting Sustainability in Higher Education and the Professions; HEA CEBE News Update, issue 13, pp10

Murray P. (2002 Plymouth SLICE's up the action; CEBE News Update, February 2002

Murray P. (2001) Student-centred Learning in Construction Education ; CEBE News Update, July 2001

Murray P. (1993) I am only a Chartered Building Surveyor. How can I save the planet? Building Surveying Journal RICS , pp12 (full version on www.rics.org/bs)

Murray P., Landor E. (1992) Environmental Legislation and the Surveyor, Chartered Surveyor Monthly (Professional Journal)

Murray P. (1991) Toxic Timber Treatments, Premises Management (Professional Journal)

Murray P. (1991) Timber treatments – an Environmental Guide, The Building Surveyor (Professional Journal)

Reports & invited lectures

Invited conference/seminar/speaker/keynotes

Murray P (2010) Engaging the Sustainable Self; Making the Invisible Visible; International Conference Brighton, December 16-18 2010 (Invited presentation)

Murray P. (2010) Sustainability Sense: Being Sustainable How values can help; Sustainability Sense; PP4SD seminar (Professional Practice for Sustainable Development); 3^rd March 2010, London (Invited workshop)

Murray P. (2009) Embedding Sustainability: a values led approach; Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture, Annual Conference; London, April 2009 (Invited keynote speaker)

Murray P. (2009) Motivating Learners towards Sustainability: values and beliefs; Anglo Russian Symposium on Education for Sustainable Development; Plymouth, September 2009 (invited speaker)

Workshops at international conferences

Murray P. (2009) Sustainable Design: what's values got to do with it? All Our Futures; Plymouth; September 2009

Murray P. (2009) Making Sustainability Personal; Innovation in Building Education (IBEE) September 2009, Sheffield. (90 minute workshop)

Murray P. (2008) Education for Sustainability Values; All Our Futures Conference; Plymouth; September 2008 (60 minute workshop)

Murray P.; Murray S. (2008) Sustainability Literacy for Built Environment Professionals; International Conference on Building Education and Research Conference; Kandalama, Sri Lanka; January 2008 (workshop cancelled due to terrorist violence)

Murray P. (2007) Values in Sustainable Construction Education; International

Conference on Sustainability in Practice Conference; Kingston (75 minute workshop)

Murray P. (2007) Sustainability, Values and the Construction Professional; Built

Environment Education Conference (BEECON); London; September 2007 (60 minute workshop)

Murray P (2006) Sustainability Literacy: The Role of Values; International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability; Hanoi January 2006 (60 minute workshop)