1. What is your job title?

Director, Planning Services at Griffith University

2. Briefly, how would you describe your role in terms of your place in your institution?

Planning Services predominantly plays an information function to the organisation, with additional work in relation to strategy, continuous improvement and quality assurance.

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

I tend not to focus on IR, rather I focus on how our function can evolve to support the organisation whether that be:

• The best information, at the right time, in the easiest to understand way so informed decision making occurs
• Advancing the organisations investment in information as a strategic asset, including how we enhance, manage and protect information. Leveraging information
• What technology, storage, integrations, skills and analytics are emerging that we can take advantage of (anything and everything in my view!)?
• Using appropriate marketing and engagement technologies and approaches to engage our stakeholders be they internal or external. Perception is so critical.