Research projects

Discover more about our current research projects here:

International Higher Education

Projects	Contact
Australia’s Higher Education Delivery Offshore and Online – Trends, Barriers and Opportunities	Dr Gwilym Croucher
Pathways to success in international education	Associate Professor Chi Baik
Elevating students’ diverse voices to improve the student experience in an uncertain future	Dr Samantha Marangell
Exploring students’ changing experiences of an internationalised university	Dr Samantha Marangell

Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education

Projects	Contact
Self-regulated learning	Dr Paula De Barba
Exploring university teaching and learning	Associate Professor Mike Prosser
Online assessments in tertiary music classes	Dr Carol Johnson
Feedback sense-making: Aligning feedback intent and learner impact	Dr Tracii Ryan
Admission and success for low SES students	Associate Professor Mike Prosser
Interdisciplinary projects in sciences based degree programs: Student satisfaction outcomes with different project delivery models	Dr Elisa Bone
Disruption as a catalyst for change? Effects of COVID-19 on the perceptions and approaches of teaching academics	Dr Elisa Bone
Creating a digital learning ecosystem for coastal ecology	Dr Elisa Bone
Characterising approaches to online curriculum delivery during the COVID19 pandemic and their impact on student engagement and perceptions of learning	Professor Raoul Mulder
Strategies for success for Indigenous higher degree by research students and early career researchers	Dr Sarah French

Policy and Management in Higher Education

Projects	Contact
Australia’s higher education delivery offshore and online – Trends, barriers and opportunities	Dr Gwilym Croucher
Changing higher education for a changing world	Professor William Locke
Australian universities: A history of common cause	Dr James Waghorne
Indigenous history at the University of Melbourne project	Dr Ross Jones
Cost of delivery of teaching	Dr Gwilym Croucher
Expert Nation: Universities, war and 1920s & 30s Australia	Dr James Waghorne
Understanding university engagement capacity and capability before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	Dr Siew Fang Law
Universities and postwar recovery 1943 - 57	Dr James Waghorne
Developing a ‘trust’ indicator for university knowledge exchange	Dr Siew Fang Law
The NUAUS Aboriginal Committee: Allyship and Indigenous Engagement led by students at The University of Melbourne	Dr James Waghorne

Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education

Projects	Contact
Bionic limb project	Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane
MDAP project	Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane
Campbell collaborations	Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane
Self-regulated learning	Dr Paula De Barba
Evaluating the feasibility of collaborative mobile learning systems in environmental science	Dr Elisa Bone

The Student Experience

Projects	Contact
Doing Well? Understanding students’ wellbeing and academic experiences	Associate Professor Chi Baik
Student and alumni experiences with the Ask Alumni mentoring program	Dr Tracii Ryan
A history of The Melbourne University Union	Dr James Waghorne
Pathways to success in international education	Associate Professor Chi Baik
Elevating students’ diverse voices to improve the student experience in an uncertain future	Dr Samantha Marangell
Exploring students’ changing experiences of an internationalised university	Dr Samantha Marangell
The NUAUS Aboriginal Committee: Allyship and Indigenous Engagement led by students at The University of Melbourne	Dr James Waghorne

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