Stephen John Murgatroyd (born 31 October 1950, Bradford, Yorkshire, England) is a writer, broadcaster and consultant.
Murgatroyd was educated at St. Bede's Grammar School and University College Cardiff, where in 1972 he graduated with honors with a bachelor of arts in research methodology.
A year later he became a full-time research fellow with the Open University, directing its first major longitudinal study of adult learners.
In 1998 he left the Athabasca to join Axia NetMedia, where he helped develop a non-profit master's degree programme offered in association with Middlesex University, where he is a visiting professor.
He has written and published 25 books (including two bibliographies), three pamphlets, 30 chapters in edited works, 49 peer reviewed papers in academic journals, 44 contributions to journals and magazines (including reviews) and [twenty, fifty five] journalistic pieces in newspapers and magazines since 1972.