Kevin Garvey
kevin garvey Lecturer Academic Faculty General Education Unit

Contact Information
kevin.garvey@ku.ac.ae 971503221506

Biography

At Khalifa University Kevin Garvey has taught Academic English 101 and 102, Academic Reading, Public Speaking and Engineering Communications courses - since Fall 2018.

From 2010 - 2018 he taught MSc and PhD candidates at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. For this he was appointed directly by the Engineering Communications department Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Boston, USA in support of the MIT-UAE co-accredited grad school curriculum: to design and deliver engineering focused Research Methodology and Critical Thinking content seminars and classes. 

in 2013 Kevin co-designed a UAE Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) mandatory University Core Course UCC 601 for PhD. This compulsory doctoral seminar course combined theoretical and practical elements: standards and traits of 'Teaching for Excellence at a University Level'; emphasising in particular: the design, delivery and assessment of university curriculum; structures of academic argument; and the criterion referenced evaluation of engineering research project outcomes, both declarative and functional. Every doctoral candidate was required to complete this core Level 600 course. Additionally, he co-taught for MSc on the Level 501 UCC (core course): with focus on traits and structures of academic argument, effective evidence and reasoning principles, as well as abstracts' design, literature reviews criteria, and data presentation for MSc sustainable energy research projects at Masdar. 

He also continues to design and deliver - since 2012 - Young Future Energy Leaders (YFEL) content; members are both students and young energy professionals in UAE and dozens of countries internationally. Kevin designs Leadership modules and mentoring workshops with reviewed case study tasks for program participants (a major KU university outreach initiative), also mentoring participants throughout their journey, including at the annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES) Abu Dhabi; from 2012 - to date 2024. 

Previously (from 1996-2010) he taught on the first UAE Bachelor’s degree course in Applied Media Studies, Higher Colleges of Technology. Teaching: Academic Writing and Research, Media Theory, Contemporary Affairs Analysis, and the History of The Arab Peoples courses. He team co-ordinated the multi-campus UAE-wide assessment for validiy and reliability of final year media capstone graduation portfolios. Again for UAE Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA).

From 1992 to 1996, for the Directorate of Military Intelligence and Security, (DMIS) GHQ UAE Armed Forces; he was responsible for academic support of senior officers pursuing diverse post graduate security and diplomatic themed studies both here in UAE as well as overseas in Australia, Netherlands, Germany and Washington DC.

Kevin is a determined tennis player, poor musician, most probably retired once-upon-a-time marathon runner, a licenced onshore powerboat captain, a certified sub aqua diver, sometime oil paints artist, and is much travelled as a photographer (especially wildlife).

See here: a recent note regarding teaching, thinking and learning: [propositional and procedural] to be [perspectival] and do [participative]'...

https://library.ku.ac.ae/c.php?g=1373084&p=10149241#s-lg-box-wrapper-37662611 


Education
  • M.A. Renaissance Studies and Modern English Literature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • M.A. (TESOL) Applied Linguistics, Syllabus Design / Assessment and Scientific English. University of Surrey, UK
  • B. A. (Hons) English Literature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland,
  • Post Graduate Diploma Knowledge Management and Online Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
  • Accredited IELTS Examiner


Affiliated Research Institutes/Centers
  • Masdar Institute

Research
Research Interests
  • 1] Strutures of Academic Argument; 2] Elements, Standards and Traits of Critical Thinking; 3] Orientations in the History of Philosophy; 4] Models of Knowledge - from Propositional, Procedural and Perspectival to Participative.


Additional Info

1] Structures of Academic Argument; 
2] Elements, Standards and Traits of Critical Thinking; 
3] Orientations in the History of Philosophy; 
4] Models of Knowledge - from Propositional, Procedural and Perspectival to Participative.