5. Complete this statement: In my role, I can’t operate effectively without …
…listening to our customers and having access to the right data to help them.
Five Questions with Eva Seidel
Manager, Load Planning and Data Science, Flinders University, Australia
Eva chose to be interviewed in chair #4.
1. What is your job title?
Manager, Load Planning and Data Science at Flinders University.
2. Briefly, how would you describe your role in terms of your place in your institution?
I wear many hats in my role.
I am the product owner of the load planning and government reporting team. I work with senior stakeholders from across the university through the load planning process and ensure that the resources our team delivers, and the way in which they’re delivered, are most suitable for that process.
I lead our business partnership initiative, aimed at better understanding the business and proactively providing relevant data and information support to college leadership and portfolios.
I also lead the data science capability in Planning and Analytical Services, providing statistical analyses and predictive analytics solutions across the university.
3. From your perspective, what are the emerging areas of interest in institutional research?
- Understanding the entire student lifecycle and the associations between student characteristics from across the lifecycle and student outcomes.
- Using data to intelligently and ethically implement personalised experiences.
- Maximising the use of data to improve the planning and management of all university activities.
4. What do you believe will be the future priorities for institutional research?
- Bringing data sources together from across the university to enable richer analysis and improved decision making, whether it be with respect to students, teaching, research or other aspects relating to higher education.
- Automation of data extraction, integration and preparation, using cloud technologies to meet most, if not all, reporting and analytical needs.
- Ease of access and use of data and information.
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