The Registrar of Macau University of Science and Technology, Professor Keith Morrison, has been named ‘Education Author of the Month’ for March 2011 by a leading international publisher – Routledge – see http://www.routledge.com/articles/routledge_education_author_of_the_month_
march_2011_keith_morrison/. This is an international honour, and it is given each month to one author chosen from all over the world. This honour coincides with the publication of his fifteenth book ‘Research Methods in Education (seventh edition)’. Previous editions of this work have been translated into several languages and it is the standard text in its field in universities and institutions of higher education across the world. Commenting on the honour, Professor Morrison indicated his gratitude to the many students and colleagues who inspired him in over 40 years of working in the field of education.
Professor Morrison has worked with many colleagues whose educational expertise lies in many fields, particularly with Emeritus Professor Louis Cohen (who publishes with Routledge) and the late Lawrence Manion, to both of whom he acknowledges an enormous debt of gratitude. He has tried to share their example of collaborative research and publication, and since moving to Macau he has been particularly involved in developing young and inexperienced writers and researchers. He takes from Louis Cohen the commitment to academic writing, and tries to write nearly every day, as a matter of self discipline. He has published 15 books, of which 9 are jointly authored and 8 are with Routledge, some 90 papers in international journals, around 100 papers and consultancy reports in non-refereed sources and for different governments, and manuals for working in quantitative and qualitative research. He is the Editor of the international journal Evaluation and Research in Education. Professor Morrison has worked in the UK, South Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Macau, and finds Chinese students by far the most rewarding to teach, as their thirst for learning is remarkable.
