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Roisin Murray

N-TUTORR - Learner Empowerment Lead

Roisin has joined the N-TUTORR team having served as Head of Discipline and Assistant Head of School and Head of Department in the TU Dublin School of Transport and Civil Engineering since 2016. Roisin joined TU Dublin in 2005 as the Research Manager and Business Development Manager in the National Institute of Transport and Logistics (NITL) in DIT. She is a qualified Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, BEng in Manufacturing Engineering, ME in Advanced Engineering and PGDip in Third Level Learning and Teaching. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, member of the IBEC Transport and Infrastructure Council, committee member of ITRN (Irish Transport Research Network), a committee member of the TU Dublin Women Leaders in Higher Education (WLHE), committee member of TU Dublin Women in Technology United (WITU) and a member of the CIVITAS network. She has also served as an Aurora Role Model (Leadership Foundation UK), ITS Scientific Expert and Irish National Expert on transport policy for the EC EPTR (European Commission European Platform for Transport Research) committee for the 7th Framework Programme.

In her roles as Structured Lecturer (2010 to 2016), Assistant Head of School (2016 to 2022) and subsequently as Head of Discipline for Transport and Aviation (2022 to 2023) in TU Dublin, she was responsible for the development and management of apprenticeship programmes in the areas of motor mechanics, vehicle body repairs, heavy vehicle mechanics and the Aircraft Maintenance Apprenticeship programme. She was also responsible for the development and management of undergraduate programmes such as the BSc (Hons) in Transport Operations and Technology, BSc (Hons) in Sustainable Transport Management, BEngTech in Aviation Technology (civilian) and the BEngTech in Aviation Technology (Military) in collaboration with the Irish Air Corps. Through this work, Roisin has gained valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of new and existing module and programme design, development and management. She brings her experience with innovative pedagogies and student empowerment to this role as TU Dublin Learner Empowerment Lead on the N-TUTORR project. She is primarily focused on work packages associated Stream 1 of the project.