About the Institutional Research Conference
Building on the success of last year's conference at Southampton Solent University - Exploring the Hinterlands: Mapping an Agenda for Institutional Research in the UK - this year we wish to bring together exponents and users of a diverse range of approaches to what might be termed 'institutional research' to build a community to promote it more widely.
We take Institutional Research (or IR) to mean the use of research and enquiry to provide evidence to inform policy, practice and managementat all levels within higher education. This includes management information to inform policy and strategy, evaluation and pedagogic research to inform learning and teaching, and using data gathered for different purposes to better understand and manage activities within institutions, including the student experience.
Whilst the conference is primarily about building an IR community in the UK and Ireland, we welcome submissions and delegates from around the world, presenting or representing a variety of institutional research approaches and traditions from which we can all learn.
Professor Ranald Macdonald
Conference Chair & Convenor
Tel: 0044 114 225 5342 Fax: 0044 114 225 5337
E-Mail: conference21@shu.ac.uk
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