About Us

The Higher Education Research Group is now part of the Learning Research and Evaluation team within Deakin Learning Futures

The Learning Research and Evaluation team is in the process of being established and in the meantime Higher Education Research Group activities and resources continue to be maintained by Lisé Baker.

Lisé can be contacted by email or telephone: 03 5247 9111

The Higher Education Research Group is a group of over 250 staff and students at Deakin University who are interested in research in the broad area of higher education.

Higher education research incorporates a wide range of areas and topics, including, but not limited to the following:

Teaching and learning in higher education, including

• the student experience of higher education
• transition to higher education
• student engagement in higher education
• the student learning experience in higher education
• international students in higher education
• internationalisation of higher education
• use of technology in teaching in higher education
• flexible higher education (using Deakin's definition)
• the scholarship of teaching in higher education
• curriculum renewal in higher education
• improving teaching in higher education
• assessment in higher education, and so on.

Higher education policy, including 

• access, equity and participation in higher education
• Indigenous higher education
• quality assurance in higher education.