The 2023 Annual AAIR Forum: Life ACCORDing to AAIR is heading back to Melbourne where attendees will have the opportunity to meet face-to-face once again!

This year’s AAIR Annual Forum program is guaranteed to challenge and 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, Life ACCORDing to AAIR, refers to the commitment to transformative reform in higher education by the Australian Government’s Australian Universities Accord plan.  Whilst there is a particular Australian flavour to this year’s theme, there will also be plenty of talks relating to the New Zealand context in tertiary education, as they have experienced their own changes this year.

Pre-Forum workshops and Special Interest Groups (SIG) will run on the day prior to the main Forum sessions, on 29^th November 2023.

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:

• 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 Oaks on Market in Melbourne!

The AAIR Executive Committee