The 2024 Annual AAIR Forum: After the Accord, where festivals and grapevines bring us together is going to Adelaide for the first time in years!

This year’s AAIR Annual Forum program is guaranteed to excite as specialists share their rich experience, discuss key topics, and strategies in response to an everchanging higher education sector in a rapidly changing world.

Our forum theme, After the Accord, where festivals and grapevines bring us together, will allow us to reflect and provide some thought leadership into how the institutional research community can support higher education in addressing the Australian Government’s Australian Universities Accord plan. Whilst there is an Australian flavour to this year’s theme, there will also be lots of opportunity to hear, learn and leverage similar experiences from our New Zealand and international counterparts.

Pre-Forum workshops and Special Interest Groups (SIG) will run at Flinders University City Campus on the day prior to the main Forum sessions, on 18th November 2023. The main Forum sessions will be held close-by at the Intercontinental Hotel.

Take a look at our program outline here >>

We invite you to submit an abstract and be part of the captivating program.

Our subthemes this year are:

• How is the sector responding to the Accord?
• Building an institutional research thought-leadership capability
• The evolving role of the institutional researcher
• Justifying the value of higher education and research
• Evidence-based strategic planning (and implementation)
• Benchmarking for continuous quality improvement
• Informing learning and teaching through evaluation and surveys
• Realising benefits – the role of institutional research in enterprise and transformation projects
• Compliance and Government reporting reform
• Business intelligence, analytics, visualisation and modelling – the foundations of IR

AAIR has formed valued relationships with sponsors who have participated in the Forum for many years and have become a part of the AAIR community. We look forward to continuing these relationships and welcoming new supporters to the event. Take the opportunity to speak with these vendors as often they’re working closely with many of your colleagues in other institutions.

Having the reputation of being the leading institutional research event in Australasia, the AAIR Forum is an ideal event for you to expand your knowledge in the sector. And as always, there will be plenty of networking opportunities. Connect with the many institutions who continue to support the Forum and enjoy what we anticipate being an exceptional event.

We look forward to seeing you at Flinders University in Adelaide!

The AAIR Executive Committee