Conference Keynotes
We are very pleased to announce that the 2011 HEIR conference will include plenary keynote sessions from three distinguished international experts to define descriptive essay and research into higher education.
Each speaker has been asked to focus on different aspects of institutional research and will relate their keynote to the overall conference theme ‘Scanning the horizons: Institutional Research in a borderless world’:
- Angel Calderon, Principal Advisor, Planning and Research at RMIT University in Australia will outline RMIT’s innovative holistic approach to institutional research in the context of the Australian approach to IR, and the overall international evolution of IR as a complex and eclectic occupation.
Link to abstract | View Podcast on Youtube - Dr Lis Lange, Advisor to the Directorate for Institutional Research and Academic Planning at the University of the Free State will provide a comparative international perspective on the complex and important relationship between IR and Quality.
Link to abstract | View Podcast on Youtube - Sir Peter Scott, Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, previously Vice-Chancellor at Kingston University and President of the Association of University Administrators (AUA) will weave together some of the conference themes when reflecting on the current and future contribution of institutional research to contemporary higher education institutions worldwide in an increasingly borderless world.
Link to abstract | View Podcast on Youtube
