3. From your perspective, what are the emerging areas of interest in institutional research?

The use of data from student and graduate feedback has always been important but more recently with the introduction of the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) there is a much stronger focus at both the top level (government departments and senior institutional management) as well as academic staff involved with learning and teaching activities. QILT provides more tangible measures and more opportunity to benchmark our institution’s performance in various areas of the student life cycle.

4. What do you believe will be the future priorities for institutional research?

Improved technology for ‘real time’ data collection and reporting would be a fantastic approach to improving the quality of learning and teaching in Australia. While the current surveys are great, currently the time it takes to process and report data is sometimes a little too delayed for any significant improvements at the core part of the learning and teaching activities.

5. Complete this statement: In my role, I can’t operate effectively without…

My morning coffee of course! And I would need to mention I would be lost without the amazing support I am given in my role by both my colleagues at CQUniversity but also those other survey managers I have been fortunate to meet through my association with AAIR.