Dr David McPhail is on the advisory board of the UK Centre for Materials Education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has several publications in the educational literature and has given four invited talks in this area, most recently at ICMAT 2009, Singapore. After his PhD he undertook research posts before taking up a lectureship in the Physics department at Warwick University. He joined the Materials department at Imperial College in 1989 where he is currently the post-graduate tutor. For six months in 2009, Dave was a visiting Professor in the Physics department at the National University of Singapore and this was partly funded by a PMI2 grant. In addition to his interest in surface analysis, he is interested in educational research and has received four small grants to facilitate work on transferable skills, international students and student exchanges. Dr McPhail received a PGCE from the London Institute of Education and a PhD in Materials from Imperial College London, UK.

Dr McPhail is participating in the Institutional partnerships: what’s the real value? session.