Dr Anne Murphy is an Emeritus Research Fellow attached to the Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU) in the Technological University Dublin where she is involved in PhD supervision, international research and consultancy in relation to qualifications frameworks, guest lecturing and publishing. Previously she was based in the Directorate of Academic Affairs involved in academic development, postgraduate teaching, national and international research projects, and in policy and practice aspects of recognition of non-formal and informal learning. Her academic record includes a decade in the National University of Ireland Maynooth and an early career as a second level teacher. She did consultancy work for Irish Aid in Africa, for the Council of Europe in Eastern Europe, for qualifications authorities in Malta and Malaysia, for the Ministry for Higher Education in Saudi Arabia and for TEMPUS in Russia. In recent years she has been a visiting lecturer in Kazakhstan, contributing to several conferences there including the First Nazarbayev Reading in Astana and the first G-Global webinar from Pavlodar on the role of universities in sustaining nuclear-free development paradigms. Recently her work on qualifications frameworks has taken her to Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Poland, Malaysia and Macedonia, as well as undertaking consultancy work for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and Apprentice World Skills.She is founder-editor of the DIT online journal Level3 ( www.level3.dit.ie ), a scientific committee member for the European Journal of Qualifications, a long-standing book reviewer for Emerald Publishing, and initiator of TU Dublin Academic Press.