Participant Information Statement

This research concerns the role and value of people working as Academic Developers, Learning/Instructional Designers, Educational Technologists and in similar roles in Higher Education in Australia. Collectively, I refer to people in these roles as edvisors – educator/advisors.

While edvisors bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the work they do, edvisor roles are frequently undervalued and misunderstood. This research aims to better understand why this is and what actions might be taken to improve this situation, so that edvisors can work more effectively with academics and institutional leaders.

The core research questions are:

What factors influence the collaborative working relationships between edvisors, academics and institutional leaders in Australian HE institutions?

What actions can be taken to enhance these collaborative working relationships?

I started this research in 2016 at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Supervisors:

Professor Peter Goodyear

Professor Lina Markauskaite

Dr Jessica Frawley

University of Sydney Human Ethics Research project 2019/895