1. What is your job title?

Academic Programs Senior Analyst at Monash University.

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

The purpose of my role is to provide a range of complex and advanced analytical and advisory services to support the portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), which at Monash has responsibility for course and curriculum development, education policy, learning and teaching quality, and the student academic experience, among others.

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

I believe that predictive modelling will increasingly be used within institutions to identify students at risk of academic underperformance and dropout, so that appropriate early interventions may be applied. An ambitious institution may even wish to apply a similar approach to predicting graduates’ employment outcomes while they are still enrolled as students, and providing additional career support to those most in need.