Peter Murphy

Peter Murphy trained as an industrial designer and worked as a retail designer before moving into design education in schools. He is currently working in Technologies and STEM initial teacher education at La Trobe, Southern Cross and Australian Catholic Universities and lectures in Industrial Design at RMIT University. Peter is also a design education consultant for schools across the country. He created a Teaching Design Masterclass, which he delivered in Victoria and Queensland, resulting in upskilling over 150 out-of-field teachers. Peter is a former state and national president of the Design and Technology Teachers’ associations (DATTA Vic & DATTA Aus).

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.