Thank you for attending the 2024 Annual AAIR Forum: After the Accord, where festivals and grapevines bring us together, held in Adelaide, South Australia!

92 delegates, speakers and sponsors from Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United States converged in Adelaide to share their rich experience and discuss key topics in the higher education institutional research field.

Pre-Forum workshops and Special Interest Groups (SIG) were held at Flinders University City Campus on the day before the main Forum sessions, on 18th November 2024. The main Forum sessions were held close by at the Intercontinental Hotel.

There were plenty of opportunities for connecting, with the Welcome Drinks held at Intercontinental Adelaide and a fabulous Forum Dinner at The National Wine Centre.

We had a packed program full of thought-provoking abstract presentations from institutions across Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

An engaged audience welcomed the opening session “Future Thinking Provocations for HE” presented by keynote speaker, Romy Lawson,  Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor at Flinders University.

Three panellists provided insightful commentary on “Responding to the Accord”:

Michael Crisp,Deputy Director, Business Intelligence and Planning, University of South Australia
Professor Michelle Picard, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Learning and Teaching Innovation, Flinders University
Mike Teece, Director, ATEC Sector Strategy and Engagement, Commonwealth Department of Education

Concurrent session authors were invited to submit an abstract on the following themes:

• 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

Thank you to our sponsors with whom AAIR has formed valued relationships with for many years and have become a part of the AAIR community.

Platinum Sponsor: Explorance
Silver Sponsors: Altis and The Social Research Centre (QILT)

Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you in 2025!

The AAIR Executive Committee