We are pleased to announce the release of the University’s Research dashboard in the PSP. This extensive dashboard has been developed to improve the accessibility of research information across the University. 

Your access to information includes academic staff profiles, HDR candidates, research income, research publications and projects. You can view this at the University, Group, School, Centre and Researcher level. For help navigating the dashboard you can view the PSP guide here.

As many of you know, the refreshed Academic Staff Career Development (ASCD) process is launching this year. As part of this process, you will download research information to support your ASCD using the research dashboard. Contact HR Advisory Services for information regarding the ASCD process.

If you have any training needs, questions or feedback, please contact us on ext. 53706, or 
bi-info@griffith.edu.au.

Information gathered on a student's journey from application to graduation can tell us how students from different pathways perform, if there are particular demographics that Griffith attracts, and allows us to create a profile of the Griffith applicant.

In February, the applicant pathway dashboard was rolled out to key stakeholders to enable access to student pathway information for their respective Groups and Schools. The dashboard has now been extended to bring in information on applicant demographics (including Equity groups) and academic outcomes, such as OP and grades. A showcase has been presented with the latest dashboard enhancements to obtain feedback on design and usability. If you would like to get involved, please get in touch with Leo Shenqu, Insights Analyst on ext. 58075, or 
l.shenqu@griffith.edu.au.

A number of enhancements have been made to Load and Enrolment reports in the PSP.

Program Load and Enrolment reports now include:
• equity and attendance information
• additional report layout options, multiple term selection, as well as consolidated reporting.

You can view these reports in the PSP by clicking here, and access the new user guide here.

The number of Course Enrolment and Load reports are also consolidated, and include additional report layout options. View these reports in the PSP by clicking here.

If you would like to know more, please contact us on ext. 53706, or bi-info@griffith.edu.au.

The Student Experience Survey (SES) is part of the Quality Indicators of Learning and Teaching (QILT) suite and provides us with valuable feedback from first and later year undergraduate students experience of their program. We use this information to improve the quality of our teaching and resources, and improve the learning outcomes of our students.

The 2016 SES results have been released and Griffith received some fantastic feedback. Griffith was rated the second public university in the country on student satisfaction with educational experience and outperforms the national average by +4.3%.



Griffith exceeds the national average on all six indicators in the SES, with a noteworthy achievement of 7% above the national average for Student support.



To discover more about the SES and the great results achieved by Griffith, please view the full infographic here.

If you would like to know more, please contact us on ext. 55472, or 
planningservices@griffith.edu.au. 

Would you like to know about a student’s risk of leaving their study?

Since 2012, OPS has been providing information on students probability of leaving to enable appropriate outreach and support efforts.

A workshop was held in early May to bring together key academic and administrative staff to discuss retention related items. A report is being prepared which will go to Executive outlining the retention KPI.



To complement the retention activities we support, the Program Retention reports in the PSP have been enhanced to include:

• a new summary report that shows student enrolment numbers, students who have left and completed their studies over a 6 year period
• reasons for students leaving at the Group, School and Program level
• additional attributes: OP, attendance type and degree information

Have you ever wondered how a student’s travel time between home and university influences the risk of leaving their studies?

We can apply geo-codes to student addresses to discover a student’s transit time between an address and our University campuses.  This information determines how a student’s transit time can impact the risk of a student leaving. Having this information would be useful for a wide range of student related matters. We can query whether grades might suffer and therefore salary and employment outcomes are lower in relation to the challenges of travelling for study.


What is a geo-code?
A geo-code is a set of coordinates corresponding to a location on a map which is represented by latitude and longitude. Geo-codes were traditionally used in GPS devices to pinpoint a physical address. Nowadays, geo-codes are widely used by various businesses to assist in making better business decisions.

Did you know?
Our Data Warehouse holds over 17.4 million student address records, obtained directly from students and from government sources, which are not linked together. The Advanced Analytics team have developed a method to apply geo-codes to student addresses, and have now successfully created a geo-code for these in approximately 97% of cases.

What’s next?
Our next step will be to automate a process for updating geo-codes to new addresses and start analysing student transit information to provide strategic insights to the University.

Do you have any ideas on how geographical locations can provide us with valuable insights into our students experience? Feel free to get in touch with Clancy Birrell, ext. 58073, 
c.birrell@griffith.edu.au and share these with us!

The Surveying of Griffith Students and Staff Policy has been updated with new mechanisms to streamline the application process. If you need to run a survey, poll, conduct interviews (face-to-face, telephone) or focus groups, please take a look at the ‘Survey Conduct Approval Flowchart’ which will help guide you through the process. You can contact us on ext. 54688, or experience@griffith.edu.au if you are unsure about what to do next.

Did you know?
OPS provides a detailed report to Executive on core university surveys following release and analysis of survey results.

In March this year, the 2016 Graduate Outcomes Survey results were reported to Executive. A number of questions emerged from the information presented in the report. OPS has now submitted a supplementary report to Executive relating to graduate outcomes by campus, benchmarking of Griffith’s performance against other institutions; as well as benchmarking Griffith’s response size and response rates with other institutions.