Dr Gwendolyn Alderman

Biography

Dr Lyn Alderman is the Associate Director,  Academic Quality and Standards within the Learning and Teaching Unit at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Developed over the last nine years at QUT, Lyn has a prominent national and emerging internal academic profile in evaluation and institutional analytics. She is dedicated to ethical and transparent processes that improve the quality experience and each student and ultimately aspires to contribute to the betterment of society through evaluative thinking and practice. As the responsible officer who leads and enables academic staff to continuously improve their evaluation and course quality assurance practices, Lyn demonstrates excellence by modeling good scholarly practice. This is exemplified through a structured approach to measurably strengthen our teaching quality and outcomes which includes: (i) environmental scan of national practice; (ii) literature review of international and national scholarship; (iii) stakeholder engagement across QUT; and (iv) external dissemination through peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers. Lyn's  keynote speaker invitation on institutional analytics, presentations to international workshops and a national award are recognition of her leadership to position QUT to be pioneers of evaluation and institutional analytics. In the future, she demonstrate excellence by modeling good scholarly practice through a number of proven activities: (a) research focus on Category 2 Government funding through government evaluation tenders; (b) dissemination through three journal articles in high quality journals and three conference presentations per year; (c) continue teaching evaluative thinking and practice into the Masters of Business (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies); (d) lead the Australasian Evaluation Society to introduce professional registration for evaluators by 2018; (e) as Editor-in-Chief of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia lead the journal towards acceptance by Scopus and Web of Science; and (f) contribute to social good through conducting one pro bono evaluation for a charitable organisation each year.