1. What is your job title?

Director, Academic Governance and Standards at Deakin University.

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

Providing leadership on academic governance, ensuring a collaborative, whole-of-institution and evidence-based approach to academic policy and decision making, whilst shaping and adapting to the digital frontier.

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

Translating complex data into insights that can inform decision making. There is no shortage of data and its reporting, but insufficient attention is given to identifying the essential questions that should be asked of the data, and aligning data collection and its analysis with these core questions and purposes.

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

Questions that should be asked more often and with greater sophistication include:

• What is the value-add of higher education across the student journey?
• How effective are our interventions?
• How do we reframe our questions to align with the implications of a shift towards universal participation?

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

…integrity, competence and humility.