Christina Ballantyne

Senior Research Officer – Institutional Research and Evaluation (IRES)

Room 4.39, Level 4, Library
Email: C.Ballantyne@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: +61 8 9360 2289

Initially from a teaching background, Christina Ballantyne has worked at Murdoch University since 1989 and is currently the Senior Research Officer in Institutional Research and Evaluation. Christina specialises in survey research methodology and has expertise in questionnaire design, qualitative and quantitative methodology, and formative and on-line evaluation of teaching.

Christina is responsible for the student evaluation of teaching and units throughout the university, the Graduate Destination Survey/Course Experience Questionnaire (GDS/CEQ) and the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ) at Murdoch and a variety of other institutional research projects both ongoing and one-off. She is a member of the national Survey Reference Group of the Graduate Careers Council of Australia (GCCA), which informs the conduct of the GDS/CEQ/PREQ across Australia.

Other responsibilities include providing survey advice to staff and students carrying out research. Christina has an interest in online surveys and in formative evaluation of teaching. She provides advice to academic staff on the different ways of collecting feedback from their students, with particular reference to ensuring that students have knowledge that their feedback is both valued and used.

List of Publications
Current Research Projects: Survey of Postgraduate Research Student Opinion