2016-04-06 PG Research Meeting with SixtyProof

Date

Attendees

Goals

  • Decide the research activities needed and decide who will do the work.

Discussion items

ItemWhoNotesActions
IntroJane
  • We will use the wiki to store the discoveries
  • Sixty Proofs research tasks don't need to be in JIRA but JIRA will be used for storing the User Stories when we are at that point
  • We need to decide who does what and have clear responsibilities even if that person doesn't do all of the work.
Faculty and SchoolsMikeThere is currently quite a bit of information on the Faculty and Schools site. This will be replaced by the new solutions. Sometimes the odd page remains where there is very specific and unique information to that degree.
AudiencesPaul

Charlotte Dean is the central postgrad recruitment person - she sees the prospective students who want help. She only sees people who aren't already at Victoria. If people are at Victoria they are dealt with by the School and Faculty staff.

We don't know when people are self selecting that they aren't suitable for PostGrad

Post-grad - students' needs audiences page which is largely based on conversations with Charlotte. We need to remove the skew in terms of international and postgrad students with F&S. Might be a good idea to meet with these groups first, possible could meet with:

  • international liaison people
  • sample of Faculty and School postgrad support staff
  • Maori & Pasifika?
  • Faculty of Graduate Research - PhD
  • Centre of Lifelong Learning
Paul Seiler (Unlicensed) I started adding to the list of what other internal groups we may get value out of meeting.
What we need to know / What are their concernsAll
  • How do people decide to study postgrad 
  • How do they study what to study
  • What do they need to know to choose Victoria
  • Can they apply online
  • What is their next step?
 
Requirements/InfoAll
  • Degree requirements
    • Paul will collect together the actual requirements to be qualified and institutional requirements for the information decided.
    • There is another piece of work to then decide how this is displayed and where does the information appear.
  • Marketing requirement -  Jane Young (Unlicensed) and Nigel (AD of Marketing) to meet with Faculties and Schools to discuss how they market to PostGrad and what they know about their needs. 
    • Team to give Jane questions they would like answers from the Faculty on
  • Analytics - what existing knowledge do we have?
  • Search terms - get search term records
  • Adwords - do these still exist? How are they decided? How are they working?
  • Existing Postgrad publications
Activities 

Needs more discussion

  • Survey people to get larger quantitative results
    • Paul's recommendation is that we use surveys to follow-up on stuff out of interviews e.g. send a survey to get people to rank priority of needs
  • Interviews - discover the larger emotional triggers
  • User testing
    • will we wait until we have something build? Don't have to could build simple things to test ideas e.g. structure
  • Workshops
 
Outputs 

Needs more discussion

  • Journey map