Official Title: Emeritus Professor

Faculty: School of Education

Email: keith.morrison@usj.edu.mo


Short Bio

Professor Emeritus Keith Morrison has worked in higher education for 40+ years, in the UK and South-East Asia, formerly at the University of Durham, UK and, since 2000, in Macau, where he has been Dean of a School of Education, Registrar, Director and Adviser for Institutional Development, and a university Vice‑rector. He is the author/co-author of 20 academic books on education, and was the Co‑editor of the international peer‑reviewed journal Educational Research and Evaluation.  He has conducted consultancies for governments, companies, organisations, and institutions in the UK, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, USA, Hong Kong, and Macau, and he has produced reports, papers, policy documents, and technical reports for government agencies and officers in several countries and educational institutions. He has been a reviewer for 25 international journals and for several leading international book publishers, has been a member of several Editorial Boards of peer-reviewed journals in education, and is a regular contributor to Macau Business. He is in the top 10 of Google Scholar's world's most cited authors in education. Before moving into higher education he taught in kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools in the UK.  He has worked on research, consultancy, and development projects in schools and teacher education.  He has been a prize‑winning music scholar and cathedral choral scholar/lay clerk; he is an organist, a member of the Royal College of Organists, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  His recent work in higher education academic, management, and administration fields has been in research methods, quality assurance, educational development and training for higher education academic, research, and administrative staff.


Publications

Keith Morrison is the author/co-author of 20 academic books, including: 

  • Student Engagement, Higher Education, and Social Justice (with C. Bramley);

  • Replication Research in Education;

  • Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education

  • Research Methods in Education (several editions) (with L. Cohen & L. Manion); 

  • A Guide to Teaching Practice (several editions) (with L. Cohen & L. Manion);

  • Causation in Educational Research

  • Managing Complex Change in School (with A. Salcedo); 

  • School Leadership and Complexity Theory

  • Management Theories for Educational Change

  • Implementing Cross‑curricular Themes;

  • Planning and Accomplishing School-centred Evaluation;

  • The Curriculum Handbook (with T. Brown);

  • Adolescent Suicide in Macau: Are Macau’s Teachers Prepared? (with J. Suarez Diaz);

  • Orientations and Missions of Private Universities in the Knowledge Economy Era (with C. Xi, S. F. Zhen);

  • Curriculum Planning and the Primary School (with K. Ridley).

Several of his books have been translated into different languages. He has >100 academic journal papers, >50 international conference papers, chapters in 15 books, and >300 other educational publications.  At the time of writing, his citation profile is:

Orcid: 0000-0002-5205-4639

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9me2ysgAAAAJ&hl=en

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keith_Morrison3

Google Scholar citations: >107,000

i-10 index: 85

ResearchGate citations: >33,000

ResearchGate reads: >293,000

Scopus profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=84216552


Modules

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