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DEEWR Research, Evaluation and Analysis Panel

The Australian Government Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations has a broad portfolio requirement for research over the next few years. The outcomes of both external and internal research projects will inform the development of policy, program management, evaluation and monitoring strategies across the Department, and will also be used to augment the Department’s advice to Government. To meet the requirement for research, the Department has set up a group of Research, Evaluation and Analysis Panels in to undertake research on its behalf over the next year. Eidos Institute has been successful in securing the position of preferred supplier with the following Research Evaluation and Analysis Panel:

Walter Robb	Emeritus Professor Colin Power	Dr Kaye Bowman
Professor Vin Massaro	Mark Gray	Dr Peter Grimbeek
Dr Jeff Patrick	Lorraine Perry	Professor Nereda White
Professor Scott Prasser	Dr Khorshed Alam	Associate Professor Geoff Woolcock
Dr Stephen Winn	Lindsay Greer	Dr Bobby Harraveld
Dr Todd Hartle	Dr Roger Vallance
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	Walter Robb Chief Statistician Eidos Institute
Walter is Chief Statistician for Eidos Institute, advising on statistical and information management issues. He is also Director of Hunter Robb Pty Ltd, offering specialized advice on the management and use of information, particularly statistical information requirements, statistical and demographic analysis, data collection and management, planning models, performance measurement and information governance. Walter spent over 30 years in Queensland government, in a range of planning and statistics roles in health, education, and criminal justice. He is an accredited statistician with the Australian Statistical Society.		Contact Walter Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Walter's Full Profile
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	Emeritus Professor Colin Power Director Eidos Institute
Colin Power was Deputy Director-General of UNESCO from 1999 to 2000 and Assistant Director-General for Education from 1989 to 1998. As such, he was responsible for the overall policy and management of the education programmes of the UN playing a central role in all of UNESCO’s major initiatives, such as International Literacy Year, Education for All, International Commission on Education for 21st Century, World Teachers’ Day, World Conferences on education and development, and in the UN’s struggle to alleviate poverty, to defend human rights, to protect world heritage sites, and to ensure development is sustainable.		Contact Colin Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Colin's Full Profile
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	Dr Kaye Bowman Senior Associate Eidos Institute
Kaye has extensive quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills gathered over many years in a number of senior roles in research institutions including General Manager Research and Evaluation, National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Adelaide (NCVER)(2002-June 2006) and as the Director of Planning, Research & Performance, Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) (1998-to 2002) Kaye has been running her own consulting business since 2006. Kaye has been involved in Australian national vocational education and training (VET) in the capacity of strategic planner, policy developer, resource allocation adviser, performance measurer and reporter, and manager of national VET research and evaluation. Her research, planning and performance focus entailed being across the broad range of issues that affect VET in Australia.		Contact Kaye Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Kaye's Full Profile
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	Professor Vin Massaro Senior Associate, Eidos Institute Director, Massaro Consulting
Vin commenced his senior management career in 1980 as Registrar of Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences in Melbourne where he was a member of the senior management group providing high level policy advice and subsequent implementation. From there he moved to the Victorian State Board of Education as its foundation Chief Executive where he advised the Minister on education policy: structural review of the operations of the Department which led to a major restructuring to meet the needs of government and the education system; impact of emerging technologies; and producing ministerial papers on changes to the Victorian education system.		Contact Vin Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Vin's Full Profile
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	Mark Gray Senior Associate, Eidos Institute Executive Director, BDO Kendalls
Mark Gray is an Executive Director with BDO Kendalls, working primarily in the areas of corporate finance and government advisory services. He is also a Company Director and has over 35 years’ work experience in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining BDO Kendalls, Mark was the Office Head, Brisbane for the Macquarie Group (formerly Macquarie Bank) and a Division Director in Macquarie Capital Advisers for over 8 years. In these roles, he was the administrative head for Macquarie in Queensland, responsible for promoting the company’s interests and activities, and identifying and developing new business opportunities. He was also heavily involved in delivering a range of financial services, especially in the fields of corporate and project finance, including the financing of major infrastructure projects.		Contact Mark Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Mark's Full Profile
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	Dr Peter Grimbeek Associate Eidos Institute
Peter has worked for more than a decade as stats/methods advisor in settings that have included QUT, Griffith University, University of New England, and the University of Tasmania. Peter has also worked as a private consultant since the mid-1990s, including a number of EIDOS projects. Peter has highly developed skills in designing, developing, and analysing surveys, and statistical interests include the use of SPSS Optimal Scaling for demographic variables, AMOS for structural equation modelling, Winsteps for Rasch analysis, and Leximancer (http://www.leximancer.com/) for automated text analysis. In 2008-09, Peter played a critical role in the Eidos/Allen Consulting project in the Skills Gap Study of Bahrain with roles in relation to data collection and analysis.		Contact Peter Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Peter's Full Profile
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	Dr Jeff Patrick Associate Eidos Institute
Jeff Patrick has worked extensively as a senior consultant for a variety of large complex organisations. He has been involved in needs analyses, organisational climate surveys, programme evaluation, and organisational improvement initiatives that involved the analysis of data from between several hundred to over 15,000 respondents.While Dr Patrick’s technical expertise makes him a leader in this field, he is diligent and articulate in planning and communicating. He takes every opportunity to leverage survey finding to the betterment of clients. For example, in his work undertaking staff surveys with the Queensland Government, he has done more than merely report the findings.		Contact Jeff Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Jeff's Full Profile
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	Lorraine Perry Senior Associate Eidos Institute
In 2005 Lorraine co-established Massaro Consulting Pty Ltd. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Health Workforce Institute at the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. Her areas of expertise include academic policy and procedure advice, development, implementation and review; strategic planning; government (and agencies) relations; faculty management; records management; resources planning and management (human, financial, computer systems and facilities, buildings and campus); course accreditation; international student and program management; research management and graduate student affairs; public relations and marketing (including academic publications); student administration and student services; and change management and business improvement.		Contact Lorraine Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Lorraine's Full Profile
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	Professor Nereda White Associate Eidos Institute
Nereda White (Indigenous) is an Aboriginal woman from the Gooreng Gooreng people of the Bundaberg area of Queensland and is currently the Director of the Centre for Indigenous Education and Research at the Australian Catholic University. Prior to her academic career, Professor White worked for the Commonwealth Department of Health researching Indigenous aged care needs and had seven years experience with the Australian Bureau of Statistics in a range of roles including population statistics. Professor White has made a significant contribution to Indigenous higher education through her teaching, research, student support and leadership and her profile as an Indigenous academic has been enhanced by two national teaching awards including the Neville Bonner award for Indigenous Higher Education in 2007. As an Indigenous researcher, Professor White brings to the Eidos Associate team her sound knowledge and understanding of the contemporary issues impacting on Indigenous people including homelessness, racism, unemployment, poor health and lack of social capital.		Contact Nereda Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Nereda's Full Profile
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	Professor Scott Prasser Associate Eidos Institute
Professor Scott Prasser is the inaugural Executive Director of the Public Policy Institute and is a graduate of the University of Queensland and Griffith University. Prior to joining Australian Catholic University (ACU), Scott has held senior policy and research positions in federal and state governments and has held senior academic positions across universities in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Scott’s research and analytical skills are demonstrated both by his formal research based qualifications and his extensive publications record including: authoring or co-editing 17 books on public policy, politics and public administration, over 20 book chapters, 35 articles in refereed academic journals, conference papers and analyses of contemporary policy issues in the national media.		Contact Scott Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Scott's Full Profile
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	Dr Khorshed Alam Associate Eidos Institute
Dr Khorshed Alam is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Business, University of Southern Queensland. He is also an associate director and group coordinator of the Applied Resource Economics and Innovation program at the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern Queensland. Khorshed holds a PhD in environmental and resource economics from Murdoch University, Western Australia, and a Masters in Economics from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands. His main teaching areas, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at USQ, include Economics, Economic Policy Analysis, Applied Econometrics, Research Methodology and Sustainable Economies.		Contact Khorshed Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Khorshed's Full Profile
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	Associate Professor Geoff Woolcock Associate Eidos Institute
Associate Professor Geoff Woolcock is a Research Fellow based at Griffith University’s Urban Research Program and is particularly interested in both indicators of social sustainability and the factors that contribute to child and youth-friendly communities. His work with large-scale public and private sector organisations, including residential developers and several Queensland and interstate government departments, concentrates on developing measures of communities' strengths.		Contact Geoff Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Geoff's Full Profile
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	Dr Stephen Winn Associate Eidos Institute
Stephen is an experienced professional academic who has worked with numerous state and federal government departments in the area of disability, behaviour and communication. He has managed Education Department services, been a principal of a school and principal of a consultancy firm that specialize in disability services. Stephen is a member of the Learning & Teaching and Special Ed ucation Teaching and Research Group (TRG). Within this group, he specializes in special education. His current research interests include transition, sustainability, social inclusion, productivity, disability, deafness, hearing impairment, autism. intellectual disability, built environment, ICT (access and engagement)		Contact Stephen Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Stephens's Full Profile
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	Lindsay Greer Associate Eidos Institute
Lindsay Greer joined the Centre for Environmental Management, CQ University having spent six years with the Population Research Laboratory and three years with the Institute for Sustainable Region Development. Lindsay has held positions at Deakin University and the University of Melbourne before moving to Central Queensland University. Lindsay is an experienced research manager with extensive hands-on involvement in large scale population research design, sample management, data collection and analysis of over thirty major projects.		Contact Lindsay Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Lindsay's Full Profile
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	Dr Bobby Harreveld Associate Eidos Institute
Bobby Harreveld is the Director, Learning & Teaching Education Research Centre (LTERC) at CQUniversity and the Deputy Head of School, Learning & Innovation in the Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Education. She is establishing a research and teaching profile in the emerging field of inquiry about leading and learning for diverse workplaces, learning spaces and educational partnerships operating across the cultural borders of geography, institution, community and language. Her aim is the programmatic development of innovative research-informed professional education in higher education, schools and colleges, other industry and community settings. Accordingly this work is trans-national, cross-sectoral, multicultural and inter-systemic in orientation.		Contact Bobby Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Bobby's Full Profile
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	Dr Todd Hartle Associate Eidos Institute
Todd has a broad and varied background in research methodologies, techniques, and designs including quantitative, qualitative, theoretical, applied, positivistic, descriptive, and action research. He also has a long history and training in education, mentoring, and professional development. Combined, these experiences led to his primary strength of helping novice researchers to choose and design the best methodologies and techniques to answer their research questions, as well as developing their data collection, analysis, and writing skills.		Contact Todd Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Todd's Full Profile
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	Dr Roger Valance Associate Eidos Institute
Roger is currently a senior lecturer with the School of Education at the Austrlian Catholic University. Roger has worked in a number of university environments since 1998 including UNDA, Illinios, DWU in PNG and UNND in Mindanao Philippines. Roger’s research has included a wide range of methodologies including non participant observation, document analysis, group and individual interviews, survey research including multivariate methods. He has been involved in and led evaluations of schools, while in WA, as well as researching the lives of teachers. As a research academic Roger have been active in training researchers, both through consultancy work in WA with WA Health and WA Education, higher degree research students including a significant number of successful doctoral candidates.		Contact Roger Phone: +61 7 3009 7900 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it More Details View Roger's Full Profile