Professor Roger Murphy

Director

Professor Roger Murphy is Director of the Visual Learning Lab. His areas of interest and experience include educational research, evaluation and assessment. He has a strong interest in educational innovations, which open up new ways for people to learn effectively. From that starting point he has become increasingly interested in visual approaches to supporting learning. His own research work often includes photography and videoing. He finds these approaches can often complement other forms of research data, and can often have a powerful role in sharing research insights with others. He also has experience of using video clips to stimulate personal reflection and learning, and has been very involved in the development of the Promoting Enhanced Student Learning (PESL ) website within the University of Nottingham. The PESL website aims to share novel approaches to teaching and learning in higher education through video clips, which both illustrate the teaching innovations but also include lecturers reflections on them.

As well as his work in the VLL, Professor Murphy is also Director of the Institute for Research into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (IRLTHE ) and the Centre for Developing and Evaluating Lifelong Learning (CDELL ). He is also a past President of the British Educational Research Association (BERA ). His current research includes a number of studies of innovative pedagogical practices in various disciplines within Higher Education.