- Stephen Murgatroyd
Dr. Stephen John Murgatroyd (b.
31 October 1950 ,Bradford ,Yorkshire, England ) is awriter , broadcaster andconsultant .Murgatroyd was educated at
St. Bede's Grammar School and University College Cardiff, where in 1972 he graduated with honors with a bachelor of arts in research methodology. After graduating, he became a special needs teacher inCwmbran ,Wales . He also became a tutor with theOpen University of theUnited Kingdom .A year later he became a full time research fellow with the Open University, directing its first major longitudinal study of
adult learners . He later became senior counsellor at the Open University in Wales.In 1983 he received a master's of philosophy from the Open University of the UK. It was around this time that Murgatroyd became associate editor of the
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling and a founding board member of theBritish Psychological Society 's Counseling Psychology section — all of which earned him a fellowship in the British Psychological Society in 1985. He earned his doctorate in 1987, also from the Open University.In 1986, Murgatroyd became a dean at
Athabasca University . Later, he became the first executive director of theCentre for Innovative Management , home of the world's first on-line executiveMBA — a programme he managed from 1993 to 1997. This work resulted in an honorary doctorate in "e-learning" from Athabasca University in 2000.In 1998 he left the Athabasca to join Axia NetMedia Corporation, where he helped develop a non-profit master's degree programme offered in association with
Middlesex University , where he is a visiting professor.He returned to
Athabasca University in 2003, where he served as executive director for external relations until May 2005. He is now Chief Scout of the [http://innovationexpedition.com/ Innovation Expedition] .He has written and published 25 books (including two bibliographies), three pamphlets, 29 chapters in edited works, 47 peer reviewed papers in academic journals, 44 contributions to journals and magazines (including reviews) and twenty five journalistic pieces in newspapers and magazines since 1972.
He is active in the non profit sector, as board member of the Galileo Educational Network, trustee of the Alberta Heritage Community Foundation, Chair of the Human Resources Committee of Alberta Ballet and one of the founders of the Alberta Council of Technologies.
He is married with two adult sons and currently lives in
Edmonton, Alberta ,Canada .Writing
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