Gary Stephen Morris

Research interests

Collaborative learning between tertiary educational institutions and business partners

Innovation through collaboration

Leading and managing collaborative partnerships in tertiary education

About

Dr Gary Morris is the Director of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise within the School of Education at the University of Southampton. As such, he is Southampton Education School’s lead for the development of collaborations with external organisations (all sectors) and the wider public to further the development and impact of the School’s teaching and research.

Gary is the co-lead of the Education School's Leadership, Effective Education and Policy research group and is the Leadership in Education module lead for the full-time MSc programme. He lectures in leadership and management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Gary is a member of the Education School Boards and the Faculty Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Board.

At University level, he co-chairs the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, co-chairing the panel to assess funding bids and undertaking wider tasks to promote and support the development of impact through collaboration with external partners. He has also acted as a panel member to assess the University's bids for UKRI Proof of Concept funding.

Gary is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Skills Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.

Biography

Gary joined Southampton Education School in July 2021, having completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research examined collaborations between a wide range of organisations (private, public and third sector) and academics working across the University of Oxford, to understand how effective learning took place within them.

Alongside this, he worked with UCL and college teams on a project to develop opportunities between students in East London FE colleges and business.

His research built on his extensive experience of developing, leading and managing collaborations as an educational and training development officer in the British Army. After progressing through a variety roles, in the UK and overseas, he was appointed Director Educational and Training Services (professional head of his branch of the Army), later becoming Director Educational Capability (pan-Army lead for a broad portfolio of educational policy, development and delivery), as a brigadier. During this four-year tenure, he made particular contributions to apprenticeships, literacy and numeracy, and the extensive development of personal development opportunities for Army personnel, from Level 1 awards up to postgraduate qualifications (working with a number of university partners). Whilst he was Director, the Army won the Adult Learners’ Week National Employer of the Year Award and became a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer.

He gave evidence in the House of Commons to the Inquiry into Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Gary was awarded a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service (in Bosnia) in 1998 and was made a CBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours.

Dr Gary Morris

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