Role
Garvin Okoror is a Lecturer in Sustainability, Low Carbon and Retrofit within the Centre for Sustainable Construction and Retrofit.
Garvin is the course leader for HNC in Civil Engineering within the Construction Management Department - a role that includes regular liaison with industry and professional institutions to ensure courses are current and aligned with their expectations. Garvin also teaches across several courses where his areas of specialisms are structural engineering, civil engineering construction management, construction technologies and construction quality management.
Career overview
Before being a Lecturer in Sustainability, Low Carbon, and Retrofit within the Centre for Sustainable Construction and Retrofit, Garvin worked as a civil engineering lecturer at the University of Derby. There, he taught modules on construction technology, civil engineering construction, and civil engineering construction management.
For the last twenty years, he has developed bespoke courses and delivered and managed work-based learning programmes in further and higher education, focusing on civil engineering and quantity surveying from level 3 to level 6. Garvin's responsibilities encompassed all aspects of higher education provision, including quality assurance and enhancement, HEFCE funding, curriculum development and validation, research and scholarship development, and significant partnerships with various universities and employers.
Before the role above, Garvin worked as a bridge design engineer on various bridge design schemes, bridge inspection and maintenance projects, road design schemes, and as a temporary works designer. Garvin was also an external examiner.
Research areas
Garvin is interested in and aspires to engage in research in apprenticeship education, education pedagogy, teachers' continuous professional development, sustainability assessment, and improving building energy performance.