The 2023 Annual AAIR Forum: Life ACCORDing to AAIR was held in Melbourne on 29 November – 1st December 2023.

125 delegates, sponsors and speakers joined together to share their experiences, discuss key topics and strategies in response to an everchanging higher education sector in a rapidly changing world.

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

Following SIG workshops, guests were welcomed at Oaks for informal networking, catching up and reconnecting.  A wonderful Italian dinner at nearby Treviso capped off the social events the following evening, with wonderful company, food and drinks.

The program’s concurrent session abstracts were focused on the following subthemes:

• 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 thanks our long term sponsors, Explorance, Altis and QILT Social Research Centre for their continuing support.

We look forward to seeing you 2024!

The AAIR Executive Committee